From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mr5rU-0002Xk-JI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 08:09:04 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A8BE4E089F; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 08:09:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f221.google.com (mail-gx0-f221.google.com [209.85.217.221]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86AA5E089F for ; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 08:09:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk21 with SMTP id 21so640310gxk.9 for ; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:09:02 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=iKYrE8kgbN4ngLBCNsOz9kEmS0LKwFSHPD5Bj21tyPc=; b=U/214/TrpKob7n+QFfdNmddBSNvGeHRSKB2spIrJdNWx8hU+9OL+ATd04YCDXf1y+z nt71v2eI+loY1h3Q7yBSWHGxS3JH91Rl4ygGcOOt4ktmn3NcrnMIicZ6yDryC5oHEd/F EON5SgvzbE3xXYj+a2eyfj79gUG8N9Zviit8Q= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=RpwI6HnAOKWK7jrrlwD5I9rC6lnhucGnNicuteg5z9/chc9sFzCJ4uz7tGPfbhI7B8 XLShqp/Gx8f9q47SBNuA+4lV24rO9g+BpTQpqCzMwbfZWhLpEwn31vK5y3F2m2Tai8pM UMLNHnoSq9NrdY7mEnqpfbOrP6aEplysSMv7E= Received: by 10.91.28.9 with SMTP id f9mr569621agj.89.1253866142154; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:09:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.1? (adsl-152-77-177.jan.bellsouth.net [70.152.77.177]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 36sm2967651agc.60.2009.09.25.01.09.00 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:09:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4ABC7A9B.9090206@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:08:59 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.22) Gecko/20090905 SeaMonkey/1.1.17 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Good fast IDE hard drive but cheap and BIG. References: <4ABAE27E.8070400@gmail.com> <4ABAFFCF.1060204@badapple.net> <4ABBBD7A.1050004@gmail.com> <58965d8a0909241202j21b66a0co6f488245700daf99@mail.gmail.com> <4ABBC4FA.207@gmail.com> <58965d8a0909241221l406b5d62i442ee680efd7caa7@mail.gmail.com> <4ABBC893.9020701@gmail.com> <4ABC15EB.50105@gmail.com> <4ABC1A43.9070009@badapple.net> <4ABC1C34.6030101@gmail.com> <20090925085757.4a451342@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20090925085757.4a451342@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 53038f24-99dc-4b2f-81ec-86b051bd11a1 X-Archives-Hash: 144c2b6cab7e93ce3c66a50bdf58e57e Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:26:12 -0500, Dale wrote: > > >> Weird huh? Can't win either way. Maybe we need a 60 day burn in period >> before being sold. That should help a little at least. >> > > It's cheaper to let the customer do that and cover it under warranty. > > > Yea, can you imagine what a drive would cost if they tested them like that? I bet it would double the price. Dale :-) :-)