Hard Drive Manufacturers Slash Warranty Periods
 

If you are planning on purchasing a hard drive in the near future from Seagate or Western Digital, do it real soon. The two HDD manufacturers will be dropping the warranty period on many of their drives to only one year as of the first of 2012. In other words, Seagate is redirecting money previously spent on upholding longer warranties in order to invest in product development.

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