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JustJosh I guess it sucks if you have a Seagate hard drive. I wonder what happens to the existing warranties?
Seagate Lowers Warranty Period from 5 to 3 Years on Some Desktop Hard Drives
techPowerUp! —
Seagate, the biggest hard drive manufacturer, has announced today that effective January 3, 2009, the company will be making some important changes to its limited warranty terms for selected drives. The warranty period for consumer electronics (Seagate Barracuda 7200 included), notebook (Momentus 7200 and Momentus 5400 included) and personal storage bare drives sold to Seagate Authorized Distributors will be changed from 5 years to 3 years. Seagate believes that the new warranty period and terms better reflect current industry standards. Seagate enterprise class drives and Seagate and Maxtor external retail products that have 5-year warranty periods will not be affected by this change. ...
Seagate slashes warranty from 5 years to 3 on selected bare drives
Hardware 2.0 —
December 12th, 2008 Seagate slashes warranty from 5 years to 3 on selected bare drives Posted by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes @ 2:32 am Categories: Storage Tags: Seagate Technology LLC , Storage , Hardware , Adrian Kingsley-Hughes Effective from January 3, 2009, Seagate will be cutting the warranty period from 5 years to 3 years on selected bare drives. Drives affected by thins change include: Drives purchased prior to January 3, 2009 will still carry the 5 year warranty. Seagate is keen to point out that this change shouldn’t reflect badly on drive quality or the confidence that Seagate has in the product: Our product quality remains ...
Seagate to cut bare drive warranties to three years
The Tech Report: News —
Seagate to cut bare drive warranties to three years by Cyril Kowaliski 9:46 AM on December 12, 2008 Well, that was good while it lasted. After four and a half years of offering five-year warranties as standard for its "bare" consumer hard drives, Seagate has backpedaled and decided to cut coverage back to three years. According to the company's new product warranty matrix , the change will take place on January 3, 2009, and it will affect Barracuda 7200 desktop drives and Momentus mobile drives. Barracuda and Momentus drives sold in boxed retail kits will continue to have five-year coverage, although those packages typically cost more than bare, so-called "OEM" drives. ...
Seagate cuts warranty on some HDDs from 5 to 3 years
DV Hardware —
... electronics (Seagate Barracuda 7200 included), notebook (Momentus 7200 and Momentus 5400 included) and personal storage bare drives sold to Seagate Authorized Distributors will be changed from 5 years to 3 years. Seagate believes that the new warranty period and terms better reflect current industry standards. Seagate enterprise class drives and Seagate and Maxtor external retail products that have 5-year warranty periods will not be affected by this change.More info at Seagate. Seagate cuts warranty on some HDDs from 5 to 3 years ...
Seagate drops warranties to three years
bit-tech.net News Feed —
Hard drive manufacturer Seagate is to reduce its standard warranty period on consumer-grade drives from five years to a mere three to bring them “ in line with industry standard [...] offerings. ” First spotted on Friday by techPowerUp , the move comes in to effect on 3rd January 2009 and affects all consumer-oriented products including the popular Barracuda 7200 range of desktop drives, the Momentus range of notebook drives, and all “ personal storage" drives sold via Seagate Authorised Distributors. In its rather low-key announcement on its product warranty matrix the company says that that the move doesn't represent a change of confidence in the reliability and ...
Seagate to Cut Bare Drive Warranties in January 2009
Maximum PC —
Bare (aka "OEM") hard disk drives have always been good deals for tech-savvy shoppers (aka the typical Maximum PC reader) - buy a drive in an anti-static bag, provide your own mounting screws, download a disk management utility from the vendor's website, and you can save a lot of greenbacks, without a sacrifice in warranty coverage. That's about to change. Channel Register reports ...
