Here's a clip from a UK supplier:
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"Important Notice: We have been informed by IBM, Maxtor, Seagate, Western Digital and Fujitsu that all IDE based Hard Disk Drives will revert back to a 1 Year Warranty from October 1st 2002. All SCSI Hard Drives from the above manufacturers will retain their standard 3-5 year manufacturers warranty."
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To me, this leaves the door wide open for a sleuth of sub-standard HDDs to appear on the market, along with lax quality control from all the manufacturers. It's going to translate into a price war, which is going to cause the manufacturers to cut costs, by designing HDDs specifically made to last no longer than one year. It's a bad idea, no matter what angle I look at it...
Geesh! Am I going to have to go SCSI now?