Seagate Increases HDD Warranties To 5 Years

InactiveX · Post by **InactiveX** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 12:47 pm

Seagate have announced that they will increase the warranties on all internal hard disk drives to 5 years.

Read the announcement here.

Stobe · Post by **Stobe** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 12:40 am

NICE! I was just thinking about buying a new hard drive the other day...

Wolfram · Post by **Wolfram** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 12:09 pm

Thanks InactiveX, this is very interesting news. Especially considering the obviuosly high failure rates of current IDE disks of all brands.

I'm only afraid that "every Seagate internal PC, notebook and enterprise hard drive shipped through its distribution and retail channels throughout the world" means that OEM drives are not covered by that warranty. If that's true, I hope they make it easy or at least possible to distinguish retail and OEM drives.

InactiveX · Post by **InactiveX** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 2:50 pm

Let's hope the rival manufacturers follow suit!

Dave Rave · Post by **Dave Rave** » Thu Jul 29, 2004 10:27 pm

white good resellers buy from the wholesalers, and they're all part of the distribution channel.
you're safe