in case you haven't heard about the new policy

[cookin chef]

If anyone already knows this, then my apologies, I'm late on the news as usual.

Effective Oct. 1, 2002, both Maxtor and Western Digital will start shipping out certain models of ide hds with only 1 year warranty instead of the traditional 3 yr warranty.
Some models like the scsi or their upcoming serial ata models will still offer a 3 year warranty (5 for scsi).

The hd market must be getting real bad???

So any maxtor or wd hds or surplus stock bought before or a couple weeks after Oct 1st should still have the 3 yrs.

Here are the links.
Wd will offer a 3 year warranty through an extended warranty plan and charge an extra fee. Wd will still offer a 3 yr warranty on their WD Caviar Special Edition.

http://support.wdc.com/warranty/newpolicy.asp

http://support.wdc.com/warranty/policy.asp#extwarranty


http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/se...at-a-glance.htm

So, get them while you still can.

I think Seagate and Samsung are the only ones left who still offer 3 yrs on their ide line. But that may change eventually as well.

[NooNoo]

Errr Yep, 3 or 4 threads running on that at the moment...

[freddy]

this is what is posted @ www.scan.co.uk , on there h/disk page ,,,,(scan is one of the UKs leading mail order places)

Quote :

Important Notice: We have been informed by IBM, Maxtor, Seagate, Western Digital and Fujitsu that all IDE based Hard Disk Drives will revert back to a 1 Year Warranty from October 1st 2002. All SCSI Hard Drives from the above manufacturers will retain their standard 3-5 year manufacturers warranty.
All IDE Hard Drives sold by Scan from October 1st 2002 will carry a 1 year warranty only.

All IDE Hard Drives purchased before October 1st 2002 will retain their original manufacturers warranty period

I have already posted this ,,,,,and as such is only revelent to UK ppl.

FtF

[cookin chef]

Originally posted by freddy
this is what is posted @ www.scan.co.uk , on there h/disk page ,,,,(scan is one of the UKs leading mail order places)

I have already posted this ,,,,,and as such is only revelent to UK ppl.

FtF

It may apply worldwide too.