[wplug] Internal hard drive deals?

Poyner, Brandon bpoyner at ccac.edu
Tue Aug 17 11:50:27 EDT 2004


As far as I'm aware most OEMs made the 1 year warranty standard on their
retail ATA drives nearly 2 years ago.  That includes Maxtor, Western
Digital, and Seagate.  They claim that drive failures are uncommon and
that 1 year warranties are what the consumer wants.  As somebody who has
RMA'd his fair share of drives I don't buy it, it's possible the typical
consumer doesn't know better.  Tom's Hardware has an article on this
very issue.	http://www4.tomshardware.com/column/200210141/index.html

Brandon Poyner
Network Engineer II
CCAC - College Office
412-237-3086


-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Rhodes [mailto:trhodes at FreeBSD.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 11:10 AM
To: General user list
Cc: Poyner, Brandon
Subject: Re: [wplug] Internal hard drive deals?


On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 08:37:31 -0400
"Poyner, Brandon" <bpoyner at ccac.edu> wrote:

> Not sure if you mean >160 or >=160, but Circuit City *shiver* has the
> Western Digital special edition 160GB on sale this week for $75 after
> mail in rebates ($140 - $65).  The SE has the 8MB cache and afaik
still
> has a 3 year warranty as opposed to most drives that now have a 1 year
> warranty.

Isn't that true only in the !OEM case?  I thought all hard drives,
including Maxtor, had a 3 year warranty when it was a retail boxed
item?

-- 
Tom Rhodes




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