Here's another cynical view: Perhaps Seagate can afford to increase their warranties to five years because they are tax-dodgers. According to this link at www.citizenworks.org -- http://www.citizenworks.org/corp/tax/taxdodgerslis t.php -- Seagate reincorporated itself out of California and into the Cayman Islands in order to avoid paying United States taxes.
Not that reincorporating has anything to do with the quality of their drives; it has more to do with them being good corporate citizens.
When you cheat the government and your fellow citizens, you might find that you have some extra cash laying around. Too bad I can't reincorporate into the Cayman Islands.
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Here's another cynical view: Perhaps Seagate can afford to increase their warranties to five years because they are tax-dodgers. According to this link at www.citizenworks.org -- http://www.citizenworks.org/corp/tax/taxdodgerslis t.php -- Seagate reincorporated itself out of California and into the Cayman Islands in order to avoid paying United States taxes.
Not that reincorporating has anything to do with the quality of their drives; it has more to do with them being good corporate citizens.
When you cheat the government and your fellow citizens, you might find that you have some extra cash laying around. Too bad I can't reincorporate into the Cayman Islands.