On Sat, 11 Feb 2012, James Harper <james.harper@bendigoit.com.au> wrote:
Disks are a bit tricky though... I'd be reluctant to return a $99 disk for repair/replacement if it was a standalone or part of a RAID1 and had my (or my customers) data easily accessible, even if the chances are it would just be sent for destruction anyway. I guess that's another advantage of RAID[56].
http://etbe.coker.com.au/2012/02/06/reliability-raid/ If you send a drive in for warranty service then they will probably fix it and send it to someone else, see some discussion of this at the above URL. I don't know how good they are about wiping the data before sending the drive out. Rumor has it that organisations which are serious about secrecy will just return the top plate of the drive for warranty claims and melt the rest of the drive. Apparently if you buy enough drives the manufacturer will accept that deal. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/