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Seagate warranty

Post by shunx » Sat Oct 19, 2002 10:26 pm

What is Seagate's current warranty for the Baracuda IV? And for the Baracuda V?

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Post by quokked » Sat Oct 19, 2002 11:23 pm

3 year warrenty http://www.seagate.com/cda/products/dis ... 84,00.html and 5 year service life but I think the hard drive manufactuers are thinking of cutting it down to 1 year

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Post by Gxcad » Sun Oct 20, 2002 3:59 pm

confirmed, the Seagate warranty (and many other manufacturers) are cutting down to only 1 year, how sad=(. Seagates start on all drive made on or after Oct 1 (or something like that). That means most of the new Cuda V's will only be warranted for 1 year, sigh.

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Post by shunx » Mon Oct 21, 2002 3:41 am

If I get any new Barricuda now it'd only be safe for one year then... oh well.

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Seagate warranty for OEM vs. retail

Post by Justin_R » Tue Oct 22, 2002 1:33 pm

According to the recent Tom's Hardware article on this topic, retail packaged drives that indicate a three year warranty will have a three year warranty. It's not clear to me if future Seagate retail drives will have this warranty, or just current/old stock.

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Post by Gxcad » Mon Nov 11, 2002 6:03 pm

Thats interesting, its definately not out of the question that retail drives may come with a longer warranty than the OEM drives. I currently have a OEM cuda IV and it is definately 3 years:)

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Post by Rusty075 » Mon Nov 11, 2002 9:59 pm

Any Seagate manufactured after Oct 1 will have a 1 year warranty. It's the manufacture date that's important, not the date you bought it.

So if you're getting a V, you'll most definetely get a 1 year. But some stores probably still have IV's in stock the were made before Oct. If the warranty is important to you call the stores to ask them specifically what the date is on the drive before you buy it.

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Post by DarkLord » Tue Nov 12, 2002 12:39 pm

Hmm, any germans out there?
Would be very interesting to me if MY 'Cuda V only has 1 year warranty, or if it actually has (like I thought it would HAVE to have) 2 years, as it is indicated by german law. At least that is what i thought so far (the law is rather new, one year old or so... before that it was just 6 month warranty)

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Post by Rusty075 » Tue Nov 12, 2002 2:07 pm

If you have the serial number from your drive (it's listed on the label) you can go to Seagate's website and check the status of your warranty.

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