Seagate, Western Digital to cut hard drive warranties too

[KeiFront]

You're friend is a lucky guy

[ZokesPro]

Originally posted by KeiFront
You're friend is a lucky guy

In a scsi sort of way.

[The PIT]

Well if your friend doesn't want it I'll have it.

[dZeus]

hehe

I had it in my pc for a short testing period, and frankly, I couldn't live with the high-pitch whine noise it makes.

btw. I also read the rumour that at least Maxtor will still honour a 3-year warranty on all IDE HDDs they sell in Europe, and that they enforced this 1-year warranty thing because they wanted to stop european distributors buying HDDs from the US or Asia.

dunno if it's true, but at least it gives some hope to some of us

[mmp121]

A compromise by WD?

It seems like all is no lost in the 3 year warrenty department.

Seems like WD is making some sort of ammends.

I saw this posted on Anand's News for the day. Its near the bottom of the "Press Release"

http://www.anandtech.com/news/shownews.html?i=17239&t=pn

Concurrent with the expansion of its Special Edition product offerings, the Company has adopted a new warranty policy effective October 1, 2002. WD Caviar Special Edition hard drives are covered under warranty for a three-year period. Consistent with the current PC industry standard, all other Western Digital products will be covered under a standard warranty for a period of one year. Extended warranties will be available for an additional fee via the Company's Web site at http://support.wdc.com/warranty/policy.asp#extwarranty.

Seems like a bit of good news, for those of us who are looking at those 8MB cache drives for the near future.

[Drizzt]

CEE laws grant 2 year warranty as the min.

[az]

BUT from the dealer, not the manufacturer - if your dealer goes under after one year, you have no warranty anymore. But Seagate and WD said the warranty MAY be different in europe - they did the shorter warranties mainly to prohibit people from importing drives from the US and Asia (how would a shorter warranty everywhere prohibit imports?).

Samsung and IBM still have three years warranty still. Samsung saidthey see it as a business advantage.

AZ

[K6-III]

The moment Samsung has serial ATA drives with 8mb cache I will use nothing else....for the remainder of this month....Seagate it is...

I may use a the Seagate Baracuda ATA V, though....not yet sure...