Updating the 'puter for hardcore ownage

[--Pete]

Hi,

If you can choose between two hard drive (both are very good) for the same price, performance and size why not buy the one with the 5 year warranty instead of the 3 year one?

Quite right. If everything else is the same, then by all means go for the longer warranty. The thing is, in my experience, *everything* is not the same. For instance, I just checked newegg for 500gB HD. I used the filter: Home > Computer Hardware > Hard Drives > Internal Hard Drives (x) > Capacity : 400GB - 750GB (x) > Capacity : 500GB (x) > Interface : SATA 3.0Gb/s (x) > RPM : 7200 RPM (x) > Price : $75 - $100 (x) and got (1-9 of 9 Results). When I added 32MB cache, it narrowed it down to one HD (Seagate, as it happened). Warranty never entered the question. That's pretty typical.

I'm much more likely to base my selection on the user reviews, although they are almost always useless and lame;)

--Pete