[wplug] Internal hard drive deals?

[Beth Lynn]

Hello,

Unfortunately the standard for hard drives now-a-days is a 12 month
warranty.

I recently purchased this WD 200gig disk from the aforementioned company.
http://www.circuitcity.com/detail.jsp?c=1&b=g&u=c&catoid=-10263&qp=0&oid=80169&m=0

The packing was a cheesy plastic shell rather than the boxes that you are
used to. This was not OEM considering that I purchased this off the
shelves of a retail store. Low and behold there is a 3 year warranty
inside the packaging that WD wanted me to BUY for $40. Um, no thanks.

Assuming that you want a good price without messing around with rebates
AND your FedEx packages arrive without difficulty. try newegg
http://www.newegg.com

Enjoy!

Beth Lynn

On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Tom Rhodes wrote:

> 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?
>
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> Tom Rhodes
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