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."

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Old IBM

[artlu]

If only IBM had something similar to this back in the day. My stupid 75GXP's crapped out after the warranty expired and I suffered 200gigs of data loss. Damn, does anyone know the actual failure rate of those drives?

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Re:Who makes most reliable drive?

[t_allardyce]

Its preety much IBM Deathstar coming in last and Seagate in the lead. I've had an IBM fail after 2 months but 3 seagates run everyday (and spun up and down) with no trouble for about 5 years, i know thats not a conclusive review but go on any forum and you'll get roughly the same.