Hard Disk with a 3yr Warranty?

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Clueless...the warranty length is the issue and the serial number does not
determine that but the ship date does!
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If we want to be picky about it,

Warranty length is determined by serial number, as it
determines the retail/OEM/other status of the drive.

Purchase receipt determines start of warranty period.
Withoout receipt, warranty start date falls back to ship
date.
 
My Hiachi SATA has a Waranty of 3 years, i think it will need it as
well, fast though.
 
Howdy!

Ron Reaugh said:
Serial number has nothing to do with it. It's purely based on ship date and
that date boundary is on or after is Jun 1, 2004 gets 5 years warranty.
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Whereas the date boundary is June 1, 2004 - if you check the serial
number, Seagate knows what day they shipped each drive on. So yes,by
checking you can verify.

RwP
 
Ralph Wade Phillips said:
Howdy!



Whereas the date boundary is June 1, 2004 - if you check the serial
number, Seagate knows what day they shipped each drive on. So yes,by
checking you can verify.
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It's not the date Seagate shipped but the date the distributor/retailer
shipped. So no you can't verify from Seagate and the serial number. A
drive that was sitting in the distributor's warehouse for 8 months still
gets the 5 year warranty from the date you bought it.
 
Can anyone let me know which Manufacturers offer 3yr warrantys on Hard
Disks, as my Maxtor is failing & it is only a 1yr warranty :( (run out
6months ago!!)

Thanks in advance
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Seagate has a 5 year warranty
 
Howdy!

Ron Reaugh said:
It's not the date Seagate shipped but the date the distributor/retailer
shipped. So no you can't verify from Seagate and the serial number. A
drive that was sitting in the distributor's warehouse for 8 months still
gets the 5 year warranty from the date you bought it.
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Have you bothered even LOOKING at Seagate's web site in the last,
oh, four years or so?

I ask this because, at
http://support.seagate.com/customer/warranty_validation.jsp , they have the
form to let you know how long the warranty period is FOR.

The tail end can be extended with a purchase receipt, true - but
still, you can go to their web site and verify FROM THE SERIAL NUMBER the
warranty period.

Then, if you go to
http://www.seagate.com/support/service/warranty.html - notice the following
text (cut and pasted from the web site) ... "Warranty begins on the date of
shipment by Seagate."

So - you are wrong on at least two counts here.

But don't worry - the first story in CRN was wrong on the "where
shipped from" part.

Oh - and for others? Even if the drive was shipped from Seagate
before 1 June 2004, if it was PURCHASED after 26 July 2004 (according to
Seagate), it ALSO gets the 5 year warranty. Exceptions are the EXTERNAL
drives ... no 5 year on them.

RwP
 
Ron Reaugh said:
Serial number has nothing to do with it. It's purely based on ship
date and that date boundary is on or after is Jun 1, 2004 gets 5
years warranty.
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If the serial number is irrelevant, why does Seagate's online warranty
verification:

http://support.seagate.com/customer/warranty_validation.jsp

ask for only the model number (or part no.), country, and serial no.
to find the warranty expiration? You could try it by entering model
no. ST31600023A-RK (160GB 3.5" PATA), serial no. 3js3pt03, and country
United States.
 
SgtMinor said:
Why so much concern about a warranty for a thing that,
elative to its utility, is dirt cheap and rarely fails?
Especially when the worst consequence of hard drive
failure -- loss of data -- is not covered by that warranty?
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Back when Quantum HD was separate from Maxtor, their standard 2-year
warranty included data recovery, or at least attempted recovery.
 
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