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Tom's Investigates Hard Drive Warranty Changes
Sherloqq writes "Tom's Hardware recently ran a story about major hard drive manufacturers drastically reducing their warranties on many of their products. Effective Oct 1, 2002, many IDE hard disks from Maxtor, Seagate and Western Digital will now come with just a 1-year warranty. This comes as a bit of a shock to me, as nobody seemed to have mentioned that previously (or I haven't been paying enough attention). Spokespeople for the big three cite disproportionate costs of in-warranty service vs. rate of failure, need to cut costs to remain competitive, advancements in technology used in manufacture of drives ("they're so reliable and cheap, you won't need a warranty anyway") as well as warranty period mismatch with OEM computer manufacturers (std. 1-year). Good news in all this: there are no plans for warranty period reductions for SCSI drives. For now... :)"
Who the hell modded that post as offtopic?, how is it offtopic to discuss HARDDISK FAILURE in reply to an article about harddisk warranties...
(this post OTOH, IS offtopic, and should be moderated as such.)
Yes, I suck at my job.
Even though I've built hundreds of machines with other drives and hardly ever got those back, it's quite obvious I am bad at my job because a batch of these drives consistently came back bad.
I can't believe I did not see the correlation before.