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Seagate Ups Drive Warranties To 5 Years

Posted by simoniker on from the lifetime-of-neglect dept.

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."

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  1. Yeah but what about ... by drsmack1 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Who cares about the warranty anyways? The data on that drive is a whole lot more important. Losing $100K of data through a hole in your backup strategy is a injury that will not be healed by the replacement of a $175 disk drive.

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  2. Smart idea! by travail_jgd · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Most drive failures happen fairly early after purchase (first month or so of use). How many people will endure the hassle of warranty repair on a 3-5 year old hard drive, when they can pick up something significantly bigger and faster? Getting a refurbed 80-250 GB drive won't seem worth the effort when retailers will have 1-2 TB drives (guesstimate) available for the price of the original.

    And like Ars Technica said, it's something else that they can advertise on the box to set themselves apart from other vendors.