Report: Seagate Cutting Warranty Lifespan to Cut Costs

[exfileme]

There's a rumor that Seagate is cutting back on the warranties of consumer hard drives in order to cut costs.

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[bak0n]

Guess who will buy Western Digital instead of Seagate.

 

[campb292]

Ohhhhh... SSD cutting into the competition a little. Excellent.

 

[dimar]

Stopped buying Seagate drives long... time ago, after they cut the warranty to 3 years.

 

[kyee7k]

Why not make it 3 months (90 days)or even 30 days like my monitor?
I might never use that 5-year warranty, but it's a nice safety blanket
to have if it ever fails or my next hard drive purchase from the same company like Western Digital. With this, you'll just alienate a lot of consumers and push them over to WD or Intel.

 

[jkflipflop98]

Buy an Intel drive if reliability is a factor for you. They last a very long time.

 

[legacy7955]

Folks this is a "trial balloon". They probably planted this story around the web to see if they could get away with it.

 

[_Pez_]

je je anyways all of my hard drives are Western Digital since always !! XD, I don't trust Seagate that simple O wait ! my laptop's hard drive is a seagate momentus xt dam! I Fail !

 

[DXRick]

This just in from the WD offices:

 

[Guest]

Who cares! Their warranty policy and HDD sucks any way. Paid them for an advance replacement of a few months old defective drive, received a refurbished one instead that also develops the same problem. Called their tech support and was told that nothing wrong with their HDD stuttering and that it was normal!

 

[whysobluepandabear]

Why don't they just cut wages for the lowest paid workers? I mean seriously, tax those filthy, poor rats.


TAX CUTS FOR DA RICH - CAN I GET AN AMEN?!!

 

[digiex]

Western Digital user, had a bad experience with Seagate.

 

[Guest]

Other than OEM systems, I can't think of anyone in their right mind would use a Seagate.

 

[the_krasno]

[citation][nom]legacy7955[/nom]Folks this is a "trial balloon". They probably planted this story around the web to see if they could get away with it.[/citation]

Well, no they can't. I have a Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 and I am disappoint T.T

 

[whysobluepandabear]

[citation][nom]brickman[/nom]Other than OEM systems, I can't think of anyone in their right mind would use a Seagate.[/citation]
People who download child porn will MOST definitely want to go the Seagate route - that way, they can count on the drive breaking, destroying the evidence, and ultimately freeing them from any prison time.

 

[ta152h]

After years of problems with off-brands like Maxtor (bought by Seagate), Western Digital, and Quantum, I only have bought Seagates for the last 10 years, and have never had a failure. Before that, I had way too many.

It's anecdotal, but I've had good success with them, and wouldn't hesitate to buy them again. Western Digital, Samsung, Hitachi or any other knock-off would have to come up with a pretty interesting product to make me try them.

 

[whysobluepandabear]

[citation][nom]TA152H[/nom] Western Digital, Samsung, Hitachi or any other knock-off would have to come up with a pretty interesting product to make me try them.[/citation]


Would you give them a try if the hard-drive agreed to sleep with you?

 

[deadlockedworld]

They probably cant afford warranties because of the sucky reliability of the drives.

 

[chick0n]

[citation][nom]TA152H[/nom]After years of problems with off-brands like Maxtor (bought by Seagate), Western Digital, and Quantum, I only have bought Seagates for the last 10 years, and have never had a failure. Before that, I had way too many. It's anecdotal, but I've had good success with them, and wouldn't hesitate to buy them again. Western Digital, Samsung, Hitachi or any other knock-off would have to come up with a pretty interesting product to make me try them.[/citation]

That simply means you don't know "$hit"

I had access to over couple THOUSAND hdds and Seagate is like the worst of the worst.

So I mean really, this news will never hurt me one bit.

 

[drwho1]

I'm a happy Western Digital customer for about 20 years now.

I have had some Maxtor drives too but mostly WD, in all this years I only remember using the warranty twice everything else outlive their warranty period.

So ... if having a 5 year warranty on a product that rarely ever fails, then how is 2 years going to be of ANY "expense" to them if they don't have to fix/replace nothing anyway. (most of the time)

Unless of course this would lead to inferior manufacturing in the near future.

 

[jhansonxi]

[citation][nom]whysobluepandabear[/nom]People who download child porn will MOST definitely want to go the Seagate route - that way, they can count on the drive breaking, destroying the evidence, and ultimately freeing them from any prison time.[/citation]Any drive manufacturer can have a bad batch of drives. Regardless, most drive failures don't eliminate the data, only the ability to access it. Data recovery companies can recover most of it, and some even if overwritten. If you want permanent erasure you need to use thermite.

 

[4745454b]

I have 3 7200.10 drives, none have failed on me. I have 2 dead AAKS drives at home. Drives die, even from the companies you guys swear by.

 

[whysobluepandabear]

[citation][nom]jhansonxi[/nom]Any drive manufacturer can have a bad batch of drives. Regardless, most drive failures don't eliminate the data, only the ability to access it. Data recovery companies can recover most of it, and some even if overwritten. If you want permanent erasure you need to use thermite.[/citation]

Seriously? Was my joke not obvious enough?


I know everything you said, and more. It was meant to be a "Haha, Seagate sucks - but while we're at it, let's make a funny joke out of it".

 

[nekoangel]

I have swapped to Samsungs in the past three years due to price and performance. Before that I have had good reliability with Seagate drives all lasting well beyond their warranty, while at the same time having WD drives start failing within the third year when they only offered 2 year warranties and a number of them failing within a year with a bunch of Dells. I guess I stopped using Seagate at a good time with all the complaints about them.

 

[reasonablevoice]

You can bet your butt that if Seagate is offering a two year warranty and Western Digital or Samsung is still offering a three warranty my shop will stop selling Seagate drives, at least the models with only two year warranties. Hitachi drives are just as good as Seagate drive but only ship with a one year warranty. That is why their drives are typically so much cheaper. Still our shop NEVER sells Hitachi nor do I purchase Hitachi for myself b/c I'd much rather not be caught out without a warranty three years down the road.
I doubt Seagate will do this, they'd lose too much business.