kony <spam@spam.com> wrote
> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
>> kony <spam@spam.com> wrote
>>> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
>>>> kony <spam@spam.com> wrote:
>>>>> DevilsPGD <spam_narf_spam@crazyhat.net> wrote
>>>>>> <spam@spam.com> wrote

>>>>>>> It is what it means to the manufacturer, who is the
>>>>>>> one deciding what they'll send as the replacement.

>>>>>> Indeed. That is exactly why consumer protection laws exist,
>>>>>> to avoid consumers being at the mercy of manufacturers.

>>>>> The drive was never spec'd or advertised in any way as
>>>>> fit for the exact, narrowly defined purpose discussed.

>>>> Irrelevant to what the fit for purpose consumer protection laws require.

>>>>> Suppose you bought a garden hose and find it useful that it
>>>>> has a white stripe on it, not entirely colored green so your
>>>>> half blind neighbor wouldn't run over it with his lawn mower.
>>>>> Suppose that hose fails under warranty and they want to give
>>>>> you a non-striped green hose instead. Are they obligated to
>>>>> give you a specific hose based on some attribute they didn't
>>>>> advertise as being a feature? Not necessarily.

>>>> Irrelevant to what the fit for purpose consumer protection laws require.

>>> Show us anywhere in the drive spec or manufacturer
>>> advertisments, press releases, anywhere at all that
>>> states the drive is fit for the purpose of RAIDing with
>>> another drive of some exact capacity.

>> That aint what the fit for purpose consumer protection laws are about.

> Oh?

Fraid so.

> Then show us the consumer protection law that claims
> fit for purpose means something other than advertised,
> something other than a spec'd capability.

Read the fit for purpose section of any comsumer protection
law, it has NOTHING to do with advertising or specs.

> They do not claim it's purpose is "able to create
> RAID0 array with some exact other size drive".

Thanks for that completely superfluous proof that you dont have
a clue what the fit for purpose consumer protection law is about.

>>> There is no fitness for purpose that is not a
>>> purpose they didn't ever claim in the first place.

>> That aint what the fit for purpose consumer protection laws are about.

>> Thanks for that completely superfluous proof that you dont have a
>> clue about what the fit for purpose consumer laws are actually about.

> Nor do you apparently.

Fraid so.