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PSA: hard drive warranty cuts coming soon

Discussion in 'Fred's House of Pancakes' started by cwerdna, Dec 19, 2011.

  1. cwerdna

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    Thanks to the post below from TiVocommunity...
    PSA: Western Digital and Seagate commence bonfire of the warranties -- Engadget also has links to these w/a bit more on the cuts:
    Seagate matches and raises WD disk warranty cuts ? The Register
    WD slashes warranty periods on Blue and Green drives ? The Register

    On top of that, there aren't many different hard drives companies left.
     
    #1 cwerdna, Dec 19, 2011
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    Hard drive technology will be phased out eventually to become SSD technology.
     
    #2 dogfriend, Dec 20, 2011
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    Not soon enough!!!!
     
    #3 KK6PD, Dec 20, 2011
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    All the harddrives I've ever bought failed except for Maxtor internal. The external is crap. HDD are so cheap now that they're just disposables.
     
    #4 cproaudio, Dec 20, 2011
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