Seagate Lowers Warranty Period from 5 to 3 Years on Some Desktop Hard Drives

jmke · 12th December 2008, 09:44

Seagate, the biggest hard drive manufacturer, has announced today that effective January 3, 2009, the company will be making some important changes to its limited warranty terms for selected drives. The warranty period for consumer electronics (Seagate Barracuda 7200 included), notebook (Momentus 7200 and Momentus 5400 included) and personal storage bare drives sold to Seagate Authorized Distributors will be changed from 5 years to 3 years. Seagate believes that the new warranty period and terms better reflect current industry standards. Seagate enterprise class drives and Seagate and Maxtor external retail products that have 5-year warranty periods will not be affected by this change. Please take a look at the Seagate Warranty Matrix for more information.

http://www.techpowerup.com/78659/Sea...rd_Drives.html

12th December 2008, 19:02

This is unfortunate. That also happened to be one of the major selling points of their brand.

I guess they had one to many external drives break on them.

12th December 2008, 09:44	#1
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,021	Seagate Lowers Warranty Period from 5 to 3 Years on Some Desktop Hard Drives Seagate, the biggest hard drive manufacturer, has announced today that effective January 3, 2009, the company will be making some important changes to its limited warranty terms for selected drives. The warranty period for consumer electronics (Seagate Barracuda 7200 included), notebook (Momentus 7200 and Momentus 5400 included) and personal storage bare drives sold to Seagate Authorized Distributors will be changed from 5 years to 3 years. Seagate believes that the new warranty period and terms better reflect current industry standards. Seagate enterprise class drives and Seagate and Maxtor external retail products that have 5-year warranty periods will not be affected by this change. Please take a look at the Seagate Warranty Matrix for more information. http://www.techpowerup.com/78659/Sea...rd_Drives.html __________________

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12th December 2008, 19:02	#2
Kougar Posts: n/a	This is unfortunate. That also happened to be one of the major selling points of their brand. I guess they had one to many external drives break on them.