techpowerup.com - 12/12/2008
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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 ...
thinkcomputers.org - 12/6/2008
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thinkcomputers.org —
Portable storage is always something that is always
important to a lot of people. They need something
that can be carried around with them and does not use an external power source. This only leaves them with 2 options, a flash drive or a portable ...
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Seagate FreeAgent Go 320GB Portable Hard Drive Review
thinkcomputers.org - 12/19/2008
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thinkcomputers.org —
With prices on storage continuing to drop and
the holiday season almost over there are so many
people looking to pick up an external hard drive. Over the past month I have been asked at least 5 times what is the best external hard drive to get. Just ...
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Seagate FreeAgent XTreme 1TB External Hard Drive Review
seagate.com - 12/12/2008
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Bare Drive Warranty Change FAQs Please consult these
FAQs for answers to questions you may have regarding
the recent transition to a 3-year warranty for bare drives. Q. When does this change go into effect? A. January 3, 2009 Q. What about products ...
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Seagate cuts warranty on some HDDs from 5 to 3 years
DV Hardware —
... TPU writes Seagate will cut warranty on some of its hard drive from 5 years to 3 years:
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 ...
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 ...
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