Wouldn't know about WD warrantee services never had to contact them about failed in warrantee drives. Rough estimate - between them my clients have/had about 30 WD, and 20 Hitachi drives and they ain't too spiteful in the sounds they make either ( clients and drives)
Last 2 months I've replaced 1 Samsung, and 2 Maxtor drives, and know of 2 Maxtor replacements done under maintenance agreements with PC-World (I cannot compete against ?50 per system per year whatever the system source, display, case content and component age) Oh - and the DVD drive that wasn't working - ?25 at Tesco for a new player to attach to the corporate TV, plus callout travel etc. Just a count of my 'store' of old drives - 2 x 2GB, 2 x 3Gb 2 x 10Gb WD drives all working, but too small, and slow to be usefully employed in current systems The 10Gb ones are currently holding bootable backups of OS partitions from faster, bigger drives My latest 'maintenance/fixit' system has the drives in caddy's, each with twin fans to keep them cool - also aids airflow through the case well the twin fan caddy's were only ?0.50 more than caddy's without fans JimB ----- Original Message ----- From: "RichK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 5:05 PM Subject: Re: Hitachi Hard Drives: Good, Bad or Ugly? > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "James Button" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > I'm not recommending Hitachi specifically just pointing out that they do > > have a 3 year warrantee, and I've not come across any failures with the > > 120Gb's I started installing about 2 years ago. > > Thanks Jim, > > My 30gb Quantum (about 4 years olod) is loosing data, which resulted in > having to re-install the OS (win98). Looking at a new drive and the Hitachi > happens to be on sale. I have not seen them much around here. > > I have found WD hasle free both in operation and warranty replacement, so I > hate to cross over, but 1 year is a little thin on warranty, when others are > offering much more. > > Rich > > -- > ---------------------------------------- > The WIN-HOME mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned > LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: > http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html > > -- ---------------------------------------- The WIN-HOME mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html
