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From: jgay@digi.lonestar.org (john gay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Fujitsu Drives
Message-ID: <1991Jun11.154013.877@digi.lonestar.org>
Date: 11 Jun 91 15:40:13 GMT
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From article <1991Jun10.192438.2688@eng.umd.edu>, by tgoose@eng.umd.edu (Jason Garms):
> 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.

Fujitsu (drive original poster was asking about) and HP both have 5 year
warranties on their drives.  Fujitsu puts this in their advertisments
along with their MTBF.  I am taking the word of a few netters about HP's
5 year warranty.

john gay.
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john gay.                      jgay@digi.lonestar.org
Like Thoreau, I rejoice that there are owls.  Part of the reason is that
owls eat mice, and thus make a certain number of cats unnecessary, which
is always a plus.  Jeff Duntemann, Dr. Dobb's June '91