Seagate is at 5 years now.
Everyone else is at 1 year, (WD does let you pay $15 for an extra 2
years on retail box drives) except on the 10K and 15K RPM SCSI drives,
those are all 5 years.
Lost a nearly-new Seagate SATA 80 the other day, but it wasn't Seagate's
fault, probably.
Looks like the power supply went nuts and toasted the System board, Hard
drive, CD-ROM, and itself.
There was actual smoke coming from the system board...
(This was on a PC clone we built from components. (Not El-cheapo parts,
either)).
I've had failures on every brand of drive. Back it up and get as long a
warranty as possible.
-B
Jeff Walther wrote:
Seagate offers a 3 year warranty on their hard drives. I believe that
the other players are all down to 1 year. I like Seagate just for the
longer warranty. If a drive dies after three years, I'll mostly feel
like I got my money's worth. In the 1 to 3 year realm, I'd feel
cheated if a drive died and I couldn't get a warranty replacement.
Jeff Walther
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