Slashdot Mirror
Seagate Ups Drive Warranties To 5 Years
swordboy writes "Seagate have just announced that they are going to standardize on a five year warranty for all of their hard drives, including desktop and notebook units. While this seems like amazing news, I'm certainly hoping that the company will be around to honor these warranties." The press release notes: "The new warranty applies retroactively to applicable hard drives shipped since June 1, 2004."
1. Samsung drives are fast, quiet, reliable, and ALL of them have three year warranties, and always have.
2. The fourth and fifth year in the Seagate warranty are returns for credit only, which means that when your underperforming, overpriced-yet-slightly quieter-than-Samsung drive dies, you'll get $3 or whatever Seagate says the drive is worth, which will no doubt go a long way toward the $11 it cost you to UPS the drive to a repair depot in the first place.
A five year old drive at this point is a 10-20GB model.
-- I wanna decide who lives and who dies - Crow T. Robot, MST3K
No, all you said was blah blah blah blah raid is not a backup blah blah blah. Well no fucking shit. Nobody is talking about backups. We are talking about when drives die. The whole deal here is Seagate extending their warranties. Warranties have nothing to do with fires or floods or people deleting their files. Warranties have everything to do with drives dying. RAID is PERFECT for when drives die. A drive can die and you can go on with your work. Pull the drive, get a new one with the warranty(remember, that's what this discussion is about), put the new one in.
Make sure your mom is done with the goats before you rope them. Wouldn't want her to get caught up in your nasty shit.