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Hard Drive Makers Slash Warranties

Posted by samzenpus on from the they-don't-make-them-like-they-used-to dept.

Lucas123 writes "Both Seagate and Western Digital have reduced their hard drive warranties, in some cases from five years to one year. While Western Digital wouldn't explain why, it did say it has nothing to do with the flooding of its manufacturing plants in Thailand, which has dramatically impacted its ability to turn out drives. For its part, Seagate is saying it cut back its warranties to be more closely aligned with other drive manufacturers."

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  1. MTBF by rabenja · · Score: 5, Funny

    Mean

    Time

    Bullshit

    Factor

  2. Re:Who uses warranties? by ColdWetDog · · Score: 4, Funny

    Slashdot seems almost unusable without noscript, what is going on?

    Right now, slashdot is unusable with noscript, there's some sort of 503 server error over and over again.

    It's those damned hard drives again. Can't get good ones anymore. Back in my day when Slashdot was run off of 10 megabyte MFM drives, we didn't have this problem.

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  3. Re:HD reliability is now crap so of course they di by Intron · · Score: 4, Funny

    You should be buying their new 1.5 TB drives. Those 1.5 gb drives must be at least 12 years old.

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