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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. Would this hurt SCSI sales? by Fiz+Ocelot · · Score: 3, Interesting
    If I can get a 5 year warrenty on an ide drive, I think that would make me less likely to purchase a scsi drive on the reliability factor alone. I'm only talking about reliability not speed.

    This seems like it could hurt them financially in the long run, but maybe they're trying to increase short term sales?