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Seagate, Western Digital to cut hard drive warranties too
Seagate, Western Digital to cut hard drive warranties too.
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Main: Dual Xeon LV2.4Ghz@3.1Ghz | 3X21" | NVidia 6800 | 2Gb DDR | SCSI
Second: Dual PIII 1GHz | 21" Monitor | G200MMS + Quadro 2 Pro | 512MB ECC SDRAM | SCSI
Third: Apple G4 450Mhz | 21" Monitor | Radeon 8500 | 1,5Gb SDRAM | SCSI -
No business ever succeeded by following others down the path of mediocrity.
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The 3year warranty and excellent reliability made me a Seagate zealot. Looks like Samsung still hasn't cut their warranties...Let us return to the moon, to stay!!!Comment
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I just started testing the Samsung drives. Haven't had a problem yet, but it takes 3 years to properly test the reliability of a new brand.I should have bought an ATI.Comment
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They must know that they are going to fail in big style shortly.
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"Customers can purchase an extended warranty on WD products with less than a 3-year warranty. The maximum warranty period cannot extend more than 3 years. If you are interested in purchasing extended warranty, please send an e-mail to service@wdc.com. Your e-mail should only contain your contact information (please no credit card information). We will contact you by return e-mail within one business day."
Piax how is that samsung drive, it seems that they are reliable and quiet but they are hard to get here in Belgium.Main: Dual Xeon LV2.4Ghz@3.1Ghz | 3X21" | NVidia 6800 | 2Gb DDR | SCSI
Second: Dual PIII 1GHz | 21" Monitor | G200MMS + Quadro 2 Pro | 512MB ECC SDRAM | SCSI
Third: Apple G4 450Mhz | 21" Monitor | Radeon 8500 | 1,5Gb SDRAM | SCSIComment
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Hi,
It's been years of computing and so far I still haven't replaced any of my harddrives yet (am I lucky or what since I'm using all IBM drives).
So a silly question... if the HDD dies, do they replace it with a new one or do they get your databack? Providing the data could be gotten back.P4 Northwood 1.8GHz@2.7GHz 1.65V Albatron PX845PEV Pro
Running two Dell 2005FPW 20" Widescreen LCD
And of course, Matrox Parhelia | My Matrox histroy: Mill-I, Mill-II, Mystique, G400, ParheliaComment
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WyWyWyWy:
you just get a new clean drive back.<font size=1>Primary System: ASUS P4B533-E, Intel Pentium4 1.6A GHz, 512MB Samsung PC2700, Leadtek GF4 Ti4200 64MB, SB Audigy, 2xSeagate Barracuda IV 80GB, Pioneer DVD 106S, NEC CD-R 40/10/40, InWin Q500 Case w/ Enermax 353W PSU, Windows XP Pro, Samsung SyncMaster 753DFX.
Secondary System: ECS K7S5A, Athlon XP 1600+, 256MB PC133, Asus GF2 GTS 32MB, Seagate Barracuda IV 20GB, Aopen HQ08 Case, Windows XP Pro.</font>Comment
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You don't get a new drive, you get a refurbished one.
DJComment
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Depends if they don't make the model you may get a newer one.
Of course when it fails you've got to make sure your backup is working.
Cheeky asking them to pay for an extended warrenty.Comment
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Like a friend of mine who sent in a 8GB Seagate IDE HDD, and received a Seagate Cheetah 70 GB 10k RPM Ultra-160 LVCD SCSI drive (refurbished) in return last week.Comment
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... sounds like a nice screw-up. I suppose he could trade somebody for an IDE drive or sell it if he couldn't use it.
Are these manufacturers cutting their SCSI drive warranties as well?<TABLE BGCOLOR=Red><TR><TD><Font-weight="+1"><font COLOR=Black>The world just changed, Sep. 11, 2001</font></Font-weight></TR></TD></TABLE>Comment
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Cutting enterprise-class warranties is suicide. (Even more than consumer-level)Comment
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dZeus you gotta be kidding a 70 GB 10k RPM Ultra-160 LVCD SCSI drive to replace an ide one.Main: Dual Xeon LV2.4Ghz@3.1Ghz | 3X21" | NVidia 6800 | 2Gb DDR | SCSI
Second: Dual PIII 1GHz | 21" Monitor | G200MMS + Quadro 2 Pro | 512MB ECC SDRAM | SCSI
Third: Apple G4 450Mhz | 21" Monitor | Radeon 8500 | 1,5Gb SDRAM | SCSIComment
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I'm not kidding. It even had the right description on the in-voice. Online RMA status at Seagate.com stated 'Drive defect replacement shipped'Comment
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