Eventually, yes, usually due to outside influences rather than old age but… hard drives fail more due to old age than outside influences. On May 9, 2014, at 19:48, Joel Dick <joel_cd at yahoo.com> wrote: > Hah, I had to laugh when I bit my tongue and paid extra for a coax cable at Radio Shack as it was convenient at the time and I was trying to make a purchase there once in a while to show some support. > > I felt like I was slapped in the face when the guy at the register tried to offer me a "1 year extended warranty, for only 2 bucks". On a cable... a freaking cable... I just laughed and shook my head, I really should have just told him to cancel the sale on an already overpriced cable, but I guess I'm learning I might just have to let some things go, like radio shack in general. > > Sorry to hijack the conversation, but yeah, I'm sure like everything, electronics will eventually fail. I just try to get the most lifetime out of mine before they're obsoleted (which seems to happen faster than the device fails). > > -Joel > > On Friday, May 9, 2014 6:18 PM, "tclug at freakzilla.com" <tclug at freakzilla.com> wrote: > On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 9:29 PM, paul g <pj.world at hotmail.com> > wrote: > > > Some years ago when I bought my wireless router the salesperson told me > > they wear out after some time. Could I get your knowledge and opinions > > on this? > > I'm betting the phrase "Extended Warranty" was uttered shortly after. > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20140509/b57611e0/attachment.html>