Seagate and Western Digital cut HDD warranties

[siopao1984]

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Seagate and Western Digital are cutting their warranties for hard disk drives as demand and prices soar following extensive flooding for months in Thailand.
Seagate is chopping its warranty period from five years to three years on its Nearline, Baraccuda XT and Momentus XT drives, from five years to two years on consumer electronics, and from five years to just one paltry year on a number of desktop and notebook bare drives.

Western Digital is cutting its warranty from three years to two for its Caviar Blue, Caviar Green and Scorpio Blue drives.

The Seagate changes will take effect from 31 December, while the Western Digital ones will come into play on 2 January.

The cynical among us might wonder if the manufacturers intend to put inferior components that are more likely to break down in their next batches of hard drives in order to bump up production to deal with the supply crisis, and that this is why the warranties are being butchered.

However, it is far more likely that they simply don't want to have to replace old hard drives right now when they desperately need to provide new ones to consumers and PC manufacturers to address the market drought.

The question, of course, is whether or not they will increase the warranty periods to what they were when supply returns to normal, and if this could become a selling point for some rival brands that keep their warranty periods intact.

The lower warranties will likely only add to the problems facing the HDD market and push more people to buy SSDs instead.

Source: Tech Report


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[akomao]

Why oh why... Hmmm ssd najd ta padulong ani? unta mubarato pd ssd para sa mga less fortunate.. Hehe

[siopao1984]

marketing strategy

[butitoy]

mao gyud

marketing strategy due to almost monopoly of the market

mao nay mahitabo basta wa kaayo kompetesya

pwede ra nila usbon sa tanan nila ganahan

[siopao1984]

subject to change without prior notice....

[infoseeker]

gi-murder jud nila

[siopao1984]

gi-murder jud nila

bad 4 ur business bro

[infoseeker]

bad 4 ur business bro

mao lageh boss bad for my sideline
wd bought hitachi - so mao gihapon buhaton nila
same sa samsung nga gipalit sa seagate - marderon pud na nila ang warranty

maau unta makahatak pa ko sa mga gubang samsung
(pm lang nya kamong naay samsung guba hdd )

[lazaro4ever]

gka barato na rba ang SSD. Guys OT gamay. Okay ba ang Barracuda XT? planno man jd ko mag hybrid. maka paspas pa jud?

[cpuponz]

bro were ta pwde magpa ilis ug hard disk desktop or laptop......defective na....basin pwede magpailis dn bayad lng pra mailisan