Maxtor changing warranty.

[techs]

From three years to one year. See it here. (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=5292)

[NooNoo]

So that leaves seagate....
Oh well

[Garak]

And another one bites the dust....


Both my drives are Seagate - looks like thats the way it's gonna stay!

[silencio]

I wonder if this coincides with the discovery of new circuitry that is able to fail in exactly 366 days.

[Darkstar]

According to the story this goes into effect in Oct. If I buy a couple drives before then do they still get the 3 year?

[Great White North]

I hope they build them better then.

I have returned a few maxtors after 14 mths they burned out.


What there really saying is that since we sold so many and they came back we better push the cost onto the consumer untill we can make as much profits like the banks then we will consider backing out product up otherwise only expect a year from them.

With that in mind you think they would also be giving free backup software with their drives.

[Great White North]

If you buy them now you still get 3 yr warrentee up till oct or supplies are gone.


So my wholesalers explained and prices are going up and supplies are getting limited.

Ordered 2 80 GB today cant even get 60`s around here.

[Shard92]

Our distributor called to tell us that ALL drives will have a one year after oct 1st. I don't know maybe that just means that they don't carry seagate?

[geoscomp]

Looks like the Westen Digital Caviar Special Edition drives..(the ones with the 8mb cache) will continue to have 3 yr support..everything else WD sells goes to one year after 10/1/2002..Seagate says the same thing btw

http://www.seagate.com/support/service/warranty.html

[Joker1]

so now that the 3 major players are not to be trusted does that even leave anyone else on the market that can be considered an option..... whatever happened to ibm, they used to make some sweet drives (excluding 1 model i dont think we need to mention)

[+Daemon+]

Originally posted by Great White North
If you buy them now you still get 3 yr warrentee up till oct or supplies are gone.

.

:confused:

they cant change the warrenty once its sold

[DarthVader]

Well...doesn't WD still give you 3yrs?? If so...who cares about Maxtor: forget about them!

:guns: MAXTOR

[geoscomp]

No..WD only gives 3 years on the caviar drives with the 8mb cache..all others are 1 year..see post towards top of page

[Radical Dreamer]

Originally posted by geoscomp
No..WD only gives 3 years on the caviar drives with the 8mb cache..all others are 1 year..see post towards top of page

Actually its the special edition ones that have the three year.

[geoscomp]

Exactly..the special edition wd caviar with the 8 mb cache:
http://www.wdc.com/products/Products.asp?DriveID=27