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HD 3 yrs warranty period changed
Can someone still recall when is the effective date that all the HD
manufacturers start to change their product warranty period from 3 years to 1 year ? -- WebWalker PGP Key ID : 0xB3F1A279 |
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On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 11:13:04 +0800, WebWalker
wrote: Can someone still recall when is the effective date that all the HD manufacturers start to change their product warranty period from 3 years to 1 year ? Oct. 1st, 2002 However, for several months afterwards there were still a few vendors with stock of drives covered by the 3 year warranty, that would make Oct. 1 the manufacture (or ship) date... might vary by manufacturer. |
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"WebWalker" wrote in message
... Can someone still recall when is the effective date that all the HD manufacturers start to change their product warranty period from 3 years to 1 year ? -- WebWalker PGP Key ID : 0xB3F1A279 Seems to be a trick question since "all" the HD manufacturers did not change to 1yr warranty periods. And many of them only changed the period on some of their drives. You can go and buy a Maxtor drive with either a 3 or 5 year warranty right now if you care to. Same with Western Digital. Same with Seagate. Probably same with every other manufacturer which wants to be competitive. This is not to say that EVERY drive is covered by the longer warranty but SOME of them are. You must expect that if you buy the cheapest drive offered that they are cutting corners somewhere and shortening the warranty period is one easy way for them to do it. And the shorter warranty period does not even mean that the drive is necessarily of lower quality -- just that the manufacturer is hedging their bet and knows that virtually none will fail within the shorter period and will cost them nothing extra. -- John McGaw [Knoxville, TN, USA] Return address will not work. Please reply in group or through my website: http://johnmcgaw.com |
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