Hard drive Warranties cut

[patio]

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Both Seagate and Western Digital cut their warranty policies almost in half...

[soybean]

Not good news.

[Geek-9pm]

From Patio's Link above.

Western Digital
Caviar Blue, Green, and Scorpio Blue – Drops to 2 years.
Caviar Black, Scorpio Black, and external drives – Stay at 3 years.

Seagate
Constellation 2, Barracuda XT, and ES.2 – Stays at 3 years.
Barracuda, Barracuda Green, and Momentus – Drops to 1 year.

All drives shipped to distributors prior to Jan. 2nd 2012 will retain the current warranty terms. Because of existing inventory in the distribution channel there will be a short period of time when some drives with a 3-year warranty will be sold at the same time as drives with a 2-year warranty.

If you have any doubt about the warranty of a drive you purchased, you can go to support.wdc.com, select Warranty and RMA Services and proceed to the Warranty Check page

Now is the time to buy a new drive and still get the old warranty.

[Raptor]

Hard drives prices are rather high right now.

Buy Western Digital or Seagate and you probably will never have to make use of the warranty. If properly cooled and handled, of course.