[ale] Seagate 500GB Sata-CRASH!-UPDATE

[lists at serioustechnology.com (Geoffrey)]

Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Tue February 3 2009, Geoffrey wrote:
>> I find it terribly hard to believe that any hard drive manufacturer is
>> going to spend the time to recover your data and send it back to you.  I
>> just don't believe they're going to spend that time.
> 
> I don't care about the data, it was my backup drive, so I will repopulate it 
> with NEW backups when I get it. I was just making an observation..

Understood, but my statement still stands.  I just don't believe any 
hard drive manufacturer is going to take the time (and money) to back up 
your data and return it to you.

If you can verify that, I'd certainly purchase ONLY their hardware. ;)

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

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