The consumer has forced the unreliability and the one year warranties. We insist on a $50 80Gig drive... well something has to give and it is quality. I doubt enough people would pay an additional $100 to get reliability to justify the manufacturer expense. RAID 1 is the best trade-off, even using the psuedo software/hardware RAID controller.
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Why not go for the X-Prize anyways? The $$$ couldn't hurt, but the publicity would be priceless.
The consumer has forced the unreliability and the one year warranties. We insist on a $50 80Gig drive ... well something has to give and it is quality. I doubt enough people would pay an additional $100 to get reliability to justify the manufacturer expense. RAID 1 is the best trade-off, even using the psuedo software/hardware RAID controller.