WD Caviar RE "high reliability" drives

[Peter]

IMPORTANT: Because of the time-limited error recovery feature, this
product

Yeah, it gives up after 7 seconds? In all likelyhood, if it hasn't
been able to read the data in that amount of time, it never will be
able to...

So why they (WD) waste time trying to read data longer, on desktop class
disks?
Plus, that 7 seconds disqualifies enterprise drives to work in desktop
systems? Thats hard to believe.

 

[chrisv]

And that's why they are enterprise, obviously.

Enterprise drives don't use fluid bearings?