Seagate cuts warranty to 3 years

Thanks for the heads up on this, I was thinking about an OEM Seagate Barracuda and this makes the decision a little easier.
 
glad i bought my 1.5tb a few days ago then:) 5yr warranty was a huge selling point for the seagate drives, now they have much less of a selling point. The 5yr was great for businesses and for users who dont upgrade often, seems a shame to reduce it to 3yrs, they better lower their prices a bit as a result of the lower warranty though.

EDIT: please can title to: "Seagate cuts warranty to 3yrs, starting from 3rd Jan 2009"

as it first just from reading title i though they had reduced my 5yr warranty i have to 3 without my permission.
 
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clocka said:
glad i bought my 1.5tb a few days ago then:) 5yr warranty was a huge selling point for the seagate drives, now they have much less of a selling point. The 5yr was great for businesses and for users who dont upgrade often, seems a shame to reduce it to 3yrs, they better lower their prices a bit as a result of the lower warranty though.
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hehe yeah, ordered mine today.
 
These have 5 year warranty with seagate?

wow thats awesome, I thought they only had like 1yr being OEM

Guess I'm covered with mine for years :D
 
Like 99% of the other companies out there now - they have realised they have no idea how the economy is going to go.


That and the fact that in 3-5 years time when everyone is using 4-5TB drives, no one will really give a monkies about a little old 350GB drive from 2008/2009 that is worth northing (and too slow, bulky and noisy & power consuming for anything decent) ;)
 
That is Seagate's thinking and they're actually cheaper than WD now. Most of the problems with hard drives tend to be DOA rather than after a period of time. I've never had a HDD for more than 2 years for it to turn faulty. My only faulty drive I've ever had (Maxtor) was dead after around 3-4 months.
 
not bothered really. i mean, a top end drive (their 1.5 TB) - how much would that be worth in 3 years time?

i wish they would offer a 2 year warranty that actually mattered - including data recovery if necessary. the capacities we have now means it's a bitca if you lose anything. i know some peeps will mention backups, but backing up TBs of data is easier said than done. also the cost of a 2nd drive for mirroring which could be taken out alongside the original if it's a power surge or something that causes the failure.
 
6 way surge protector from belkin can be had for £10-18, they are WELL worth their money, gives me peace of mind as we've been having quite a lot of power cuts over the last 4 months in my area.

We need bluray 50gb discs and writers to come down to an affordable price then backing up harddrives would be much quicker and easier, 4.4gb dvdrs would take forever to back up a 1tb+ hdd. dvd9 discs are 3x the price of dvd5 and only about 80% bigger so backing up a lot of data isnt ideal at the moment.

£2.80 in bulk for 25gb bd discs and an insane amount for bd50 discs to go with £130+ bluray writer = crazy!
 
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clocka said:
6 way surge protector from belkin can be had for £10-18, they are WELL worth their money, gives me peace of mind
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Do you think those can do really much anything to good hit when energy of average lightning is 500MJ?
For comparison energy release of dynamite is 7,5MJ/kg.


I agree about need for price drop of Blu-ray blanks but I would avoid multilayer discs, second layer has always more errors to start with after burning meaning aging corrupts it faster so they're not so good as longer term backup.
 
lol, how often do you get hit by lightening? Take your spire down off your root and your pole with the england flag on, lightening problem solved :P
 
Well considering my Seagate has died in like 3 months its probably a bad idea for them to reduce the warranty period. Hard drives imo should have 10 years minimum cos some ppl will have them that long like me as my 30gb Maxtor's about 7-8 years old and still going super.
 
Slackworth said:
That is Seagate's thinking and they're actually cheaper than WD now. Most of the problems with hard drives tend to be DOA rather than after a period of time. I've never had a HDD for more than 2 years for it to turn faulty. My only faulty drive I've ever had (Maxtor) was dead after around 3-4 months.
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if that was seagates logic then why bother changing it at all? not sure i buy that tbh. That says they arent confident in their own technology to me.
 
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