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Originally Posted by J.C
I'm sorry Andrew but that is complete nonsense. Nearly all new hard drives that i know of come with at least a 3 year warrenty and many come with 5 years now. Whilst I agree that hard drives errors do seem to be more frequent these days it just wouldn't make any business sense to produce drives that lasted on average 2 years and bunle them with 3 year warrenties.
I would guess that Virgin will be using either WD Green Cavier or consumer Seagate drives in the PVR's, both resonable drives and fully capable.
The "PVR" drives you talk of are more than likely enterprise drives which whilst they are good, most businesses we deal with would not see it as cost effective to use them. It would terefore make no sense for Virgin to be using them.
Aside from that I'm very excited about the Tivo box, I just hope Virgin get it right, Tivo and 100mbit internet would be an ideal christmas present.....
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I suggest you do some bench tests then. a hard disk running at 90%+ capicty even goign into 100%+ capictuy for 2 years the platters will be damged. if you use thing to cool the hard disk you keep it goign longer.
oh.... and the 3 year warrent it says operating at a certain tempurate and only operational % of the day.
edit: i aitn discussing this again this is way off topic if you want to discuss pm me