At 09:35 PM 01/01/2009, Gary wrote:
Seagate, the biggest hard drive manufacturer, has announced today that
effective January 3, 2009, the company will be making some important changes
to its limited warranty terms for selected drives. The warranty period for
consumer electronics (Seagate Barracuda 7200 included), notebook (Momentus
7200 and Momentus 5400 included) and personal storage bare drives sold to
Seagate Authorized Distributors will be changed from 5 years to 3 years.
Seagate believes that the new warranty period and terms better reflect
current industry standards. Seagate enterprise class drives and Seagate and
Maxtor external retail products that have 5-year warranty periods will not
be affected by this change
Given the problems that Seagate drives regularly show, I'm not shocked.
T
