Bah... what's another 10GB anyway...

[rh71]

...to Western Digital.

RMA'd a 30GB drive that was dying and in advance they sent me a 40GB replacement. Physically it looks like a refurb, but as long as it works...

Thumbs up to WD.

 

[wfbberzerker]

hmm... maybe i should rma some of my stuff and see if they give me better hardware...

 

[AntaresVI]

i RMA'd a 20.5 gig drive to them a few weeks ago and got back a 20. :|

 

[thirtythree]

I just got RMAed my BFG Geforce4 Ti4200 and got a card that looked a lot different .. I was hoping it was a 4600 or something but no luck it is 8x agp and has a sexier fan than my last one though.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Gee, I should RMA my old Ti4200 since it's obsolete (64MB, 4X AGP) and see if they'll send me the only model now in production (128MB, 8X AGP)

Boy, that's really worth waiting 4-6 weeks with a backup Matrox MGA to get.

- M4H

 

[dman]

I've yet to score a bigger drive RMA'ing an old drive. On Harddrives or CDRoms. Even after friends scored better models. And I wasn't cheating, all RMA's I've done are for actual bad drives.

Even at 2.99 years, (lucked out a few times) they had stock of the old drive and sent me it as a replacement. I believe that was an 8GB, it's been a while since I've had to do an RMA. I think I'm about to do one on my Maxtor 80GB I just bought from Staples... it makes a clunking noise at random times (no drive activity). It's possible it's my other drive, 20GB that's doing it. I haven't done any swapping yet... but I have everything backed up on another PC so I'm not worried.

Oh, speaking of that, did you know that they don't renew the warranty on the drive when they send you a new model? That's right, if you get a replacement drive at 2.99 years and send it back, the replacement has a .1yr warranty.

Thus, I'm disappointed in the 1yr warranty now being the standard, but can't do much about that. I'll just have to upgrade and backup my drives more often. Of course, exactly what the reason for the 1yr warranty. D'oh.

 

[BatmanNate]

I always hear about that happening but it had yet to happen to me. I RMA'ed a 15 GB Maxtor a few months back, and apparently they still had the thing in stock. You are lucky. :beer:

 

[XZeroII]

A 120gig hdd is actually only 111gb. You lose 9gb just from the title to reality.

 

[thirtythree]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Gee, I should RMA my old Ti4200 since it's obsolete (64MB, 4X AGP) and see if they'll send me the only model now in production (128MB, 8X AGP)

Boy, that's really worth waiting 4-6 weeks with a backup Matrox MGA to get.

- M4H

Mine took less than two weeks from the time I sent it to them. The fan was broken so I was using onboard video anyway ..

 

[xSauronx]

i rma'd an ati 8500 and got back...the same non-working card
then, the same non-working card
then...the same FVCKING non-working card with a note saying it had been replaced *sigh*

then a card that worked that i sold at a loss because in the interim 3 months i had bought an 8500 from newegg that cost less than what the card was worth 3 months prior and i couldnt sell it at what i paid so i just broke even on a new card, losing money not only on the original card, but on shipping it three times to ATI



/me is bitter and should have just bought a damned gf4

 

[Cyberian]

Originally posted by: XZeroII
A 120gig hdd is actually only 111gb. You lose 9gb just from the title to reality.

Is that from rounding 1024 off to 1000?
I knew there was a loss in there somewhere, but I didn't think it was that much.

 

[wfbberzerker]

Originally posted by: Cyberian

Originally posted by: XZeroII
A 120gig hdd is actually only 111gb. You lose 9gb just from the title to reality.

Is that from rounding 1024 off to 1000?
I knew there was a loss in there somewhere, but I didn't think it was that much.

it can actually get pretty big. a "120"gb hard drive may be around 120,000,000,000bytes, but when you do the actual conversions, its about 111gb as xzeroii said.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: Cyberian

Originally posted by: XZeroII
A 120gig hdd is actually only 111gb. You lose 9gb just from the title to reality.

Is that from rounding 1024 off to 1000?
I knew there was a loss in there somewhere, but I didn't think it was that much.

He's correct. I just installed a 120GB and I have all of 111 total - or so says Windows.

 

[Narse]

Originally posted by: xSauronx
i rma'd an ati 8500 and got back...the same non-working card
then, the same non-working card
then...the same FVCKING non-working card with a note saying it had been replaced *sigh*

then a card that worked that i sold at a loss because in the interim 3 months i had bought an 8500 from newegg that cost less than what the card was worth 3 months prior and i couldnt sell it at what i paid so i just broke even on a new card, losing money not only on the original card, but on shipping it three times to ATI



/me is bitter and should have just bought a damned gf4

WOW I RMAd a 8500 and got a brand new one 2 days after they got it!! Must be luck of the draw

 

[rocadelpunk]

i rma'd a 30gig 75gxp (punches ibm for those drives)

and got back a 18gig fiber channel hardrive, which i desperately tried to sell, but nobody would buy : \...too exotic.

when i called th ibm people back, they laughed at me when i asked if i could at least get the 60gxp since i was returning an item much more valuable then the one i'd get in return : \...oh well i'm VERY happy with my 120gig wd se : )

 

[Zugzwang152]

Originally posted by: rocadelpunk
i rma'd a 30gig 75gxp (punches ibm for those drives)

and got back a 18gig fiber channel hardrive, which i desperately tried to sell, but nobody would buy : \...too exotic.

when i called th ibm people back, they laughed at me when i asked if i could at least get the 60gxp since i was returning an item much more valuable then the one i'd get in return : \...oh well i'm VERY happy with my 120gig wd se : )

thats odd. the warranty terms state that you must get at least something of similar spec and value as the broken drive.