On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 06:15:33PM -0700, Caffeinate The World wrote:
  | 
  | --- Luke Mewburn <lukem@netbsd.org> wrote:
  | > On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 08:44:06PM +0000, MLH wrote:
  | >   | I ran across some Seagate 80G ATA V SATA drives last weekend for
  | >   | ~$120 at a local computer show. Best price until then I had seen
  | >   | was $160 for that drive.
  | > 
  | > Unfortunately, the SATA Seagate drives are based on the "cheaper"
  | > ATA models that only have 1 year warranty (and 2MB cache, but that's
  | > irrelevant to me).
  | 
  | 80 Gig SATA Seagate ST380013AS 8MB cache $137.00 
  | 
  | Not sure if this is the "cheaper" ATA model but it doesn't have 2 MB
  | cache. But it does have the 13 suffix.
  | 
  | http://www.nexcomdirect.com/itemdesc.asp?CartId=11270134OCUPV5-ACCWARE-5&ic=HDSTSATA80GB&cc=&tpc=


As I said, the cache size is irrelevant.  It's the warranty length
that matters to me.  According to the 7200.7 datasheet
     http://www.seagate.com/cda/products/discsales/personal/family/0,1085,587,00.html
the ST380013AS has 1 year warranty (and none have 3 year warranty).

According to the ATA V datasheet
    http://www.seagate.com/cda/products/discsales/personal/family/0,1085,572,00.html
the only drive with 3 year warranty is the ST3120024A.


I could have purchased the ST3120023A for ~U$10-20 less, but decided
that three times the warranty was worth < 10% purchase price.

However, your priorities are probably different to mine.

Luke.