[wplug] Internal hard drive deals?

[techmike]

I'm a big fan of the SATA Raptors (5 yr warranty) as well as the higher
end Seagate drives (5 yr also).

-mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Beth Lynn <bethlynn at wplug.org>
To: General user list <wplug at wplug.org>
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 12:04:34 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: [wplug] Internal hard drive deals?

> 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&oi
> d=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?
> >
> > --
> > Tom Rhodes
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