Maxtor Reportedly Raises HDD Warranty

[TechZ]

- Maxtor Corp. is reportedly boosting warranty of its hard disk drives (http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/storage/display/20040901082859.html) intended for consumers from one year to three, following the similar move to stretch HDD warranty to five years from the rival Seagate Technology.

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Techz - how fast are you typing ? .. I keep finding loads of these, put 'em in Tech to Tech please :)

On the subject matter in hand, I'll just add that ALL the manufacturers have been bumping warranty lengths lately, most notably on SATA stuff in an effort to to give sales a shove as IDE prices keep tumbling, but there's manufacturers offering 3 years on IDE again too - a case of read the fine print ;)

[TechZ]

Sry, -ed, but Tech-to-Tech says:

You're a tech and you need an answer quick, post here for quick help from other techs around the globe.

I dont know better ;)

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But the Tech lounge says "Everything NOT pertaining to PC/computer support type stuff such as your choice of underwear, your boss or anything else within reason! Topics that are of a sexual or drug related theme will be deleted. No politic threads (only in Politicos). "

So :p ..:D

I think 'practice' here has been to shove anything technical not directly covered elsewhere in Tech to Tech, either that or I've been doing it wrong for 5 years ! ;)

[TechZ]

Good to know, from now on...

[3fingersalute]

but there's manufacturers offering 3 years on IDE again too - a case of read the fine print ;)

I was royally pissed when WD dropped the 3 year warranty.

[TechZ]

Me too! More so after I got my WD 120GB