On Sat, 14 Sep 2013 18:50:07 -0700, "Fishface"
wrote:

Davej wrote:

Had three WD drives die in the past year and finally noticed that two of
them were still under the factory warranty,
so now what are they going to send me? New drives? Refurbished drives?
I've never had a HD die under warranty before.

WD sent me someone else's junk. I don't bother anymore. It's a commodity
item. Cheap. Disposable.

Won't do any better from Seagate, any of the others. Pot luck, even
to say I'd prefer Seagate over WD;- they've both 3- & 5-yr warrantee
models, thereabouts I'd imagine, just haven't had a Seagate fail more
of late (excluding a PS/ bad MB issue, I strongly suspect, that got a
200G Seagate a few months ago).

You get the warrantee if you've got it. A used/factory refurbished
drive that lasts right up to it expires, if not longer, whichever and
whatever comes first. Social capitalistic contract, as far as I'm
aware;- maybe someday we'll get reissued HDs under a 50-year
communistic sort of arrangement. . .I'll let you know when I hear it's
being implemented. First thing, for sure.