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From: tgoose@eng.umd.edu (Jason Garms)
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Subject: Re: Seagate drives (Actually Fujitsu)
Keywords: seagate,harddrive,fujitsu
Message-ID: <1991Jun10.192438.2688@eng.umd.edu>
Date: 10 Jun 91 19:24:38 GMT
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In article <1991Jun7.142105.23289@agate.berkeley.edu>, ilan343@violet.berkeley.edu (Geraldo Veiga) writes:
> I bought a Fujitsu 2263E ( The 600+M ESDI one) for a system I was
> setting up for a friend.  We went for it because of price, Fujitsu
> brand name and the advertised warranty (5 years).  However, nowhere in
> the literature packaged with the disk there any mention of a
> warranty.  This is an official Fujitsu America drive (not grey market).
> Are warranties in disk drives implied by the MTBF rating?
> I guess I will never know for sure unless the thing breaks
> down and I go back to the distributor.
> 
> This aside, it looks and sounds like a very good drive -- very fast and
> quiet.  Actually, is unbeatable at the 600M class from price point of
> view.

MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) is not an implied warranty!  It is just
a manufacturers projection as to the life of the drive.  Warranties will be
explicitly stated as such.  Many companies claim 5 year MTBF but only have a
one year warranty.

Jason Garms
tgoose@eng.umd.edu