Maxtor warranties?

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Do all Maxtor with two meg caches have one year warranties?

Do all Maxtor with eight meg caches have three year warranties?

Thank you in advance for all replies.
 
AFAIK, yes that is correct. I have an 8MB cache drive and it has 3 year
warranty.

HTH
 
Previously Daniel Prince said:
Do all Maxtor with two meg caches have one year warranties?
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Do all Maxtor with eight meg caches have three year warranties?
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No, only >= 120GB, If you look at Maxtor's warranty
statement on their webpage, you can clearly see that....

Arno
 
No, only >= 120GB, If you look at Maxtor's warranty
statement on their webpage, you can clearly see that....

Arno
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You need to read the article on page 28 in the August 2004
issue of Computer Shopper. It states that if you don't have
your receipt, ALL warranties start with date of manufacture
marked on the drives. It goes on to state that some
drives that may have been on the store shelf for awhile
may only have six months or less warranty left when you buy
them. So it appears, that the buyer needs to beware when
buying hard drives at places like Fry's or CompUSA.
MAKE SURE YOU DON'T LOSE YOUR RECEIPT OR
ELSE YOU COULD BE BUYING A HARD DRIVE
WITHOUT A WARRANTY.
This applies not only to Maxtor, but also Western Digital
drives. You can enter your hard drive serial number on
the Maxtor web site to see when your warranty ends. I
just checked my Western Digital drives on WD's site
and it shows the same.

I thought this was interesting and if you check the
serial numbers of your drives on Maxtor's and
Western Digital's web site it appears to be true.


Regards,

James

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Previously James R. DeLoach said:
No, only >= 120GB, If you look at Maxtor's warranty
statement on their webpage, you can clearly see that....

Arno
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[/QUOTE]
You need to read the article on page 28 in the August 2004
issue of Computer Shopper. It states that if you don't have
your receipt, ALL warranties start with date of manufacture
marked on the drives. It goes on to state that some
drives that may have been on the store shelf for awhile
may only have six months or less warranty left when you buy
them. So it appears, that the buyer needs to beware when
buying hard drives at places like Fry's or CompUSA.
MAKE SURE YOU DON'T LOSE YOUR RECEIPT OR
ELSE YOU COULD BE BUYING A HARD DRIVE
WITHOUT A WARRANTY.
This applies not only to Maxtor, but also Western Digital
drives. You can enter your hard drive serial number on
the Maxtor web site to see when your warranty ends. I
just checked my Western Digital drives on WD's site
and it shows the same.
Click to expand...
I thought this was interesting and if you check the
serial numbers of your drives on Maxtor's and
Western Digital's web site it appears to be true.
Click to expand...

Calm down. These practices may be present in the US, but in
the EU you have 2 years warranty by way of your dealer anyways.
And I have never had any troubles with Maxtor's warranty.

Arno
 
I think it really sucks that hds are only good for 1 year, expensive little
buggers. On the other hand, I have a harddrive that is still running with
no errors after 5 years
 
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