This is what I love about Seagate's 5-year warranty

[Steve]

Sent in a dying 120GB drive.


Got a 250GB back


Warranty exceeding product lifespan FTW!

 

[Shawn]

LOL. The smallest hard drive in my computer is 400GB. The largest is 1TB. I guess the 5 year warranty is great if you keep your hard drives for that long.

 

[BigJ]

Originally posted by: Shawn
LOL. The smallest hard drive in my computer is 400GB. The largest is 1TB. I guess the 5 year warranty is great if you keep your hard drives for that long.

There's always a use for old hard drives. I still have 8gb drives I use for trying out different Linux distributions.

 

[Steve]

I really don't have a need for huge capacities. My biggest is the 320GB Maxtor in my HTPC, and I may switch it back to the 200GB Samsung because it's waaay quieter. Other than that, my main PC already has a 250, and I have this other 250 and a couple of 120s sitting around I don't know what to do with. Way more than I need.

 

[Scarpozzi]

Originally posted by: BigJ

Originally posted by: Shawn
LOL. The smallest hard drive in my computer is 400GB. The largest is 1TB. I guess the 5 year warranty is great if you keep your hard drives for that long.

There's always a use for old hard drives. I still have 8gb drives I use for trying out different Linux distributions.

They're called partitions and a bootloader. It really cleans up the inside of a computer case.

I run into this all the time at work. We order a TON of disks 10k rpm 146GB SCSI drives. One will die and Dell will tell me they can't get a replacement for 3 weeks...but instead they'll send me a 300GB or a 15k rpm drive instead. (doesn't matter since it's RAID 1/5/10)...it will rebuild at the size of the other disks in the array and will run at the lowest speed of any of the drives (10k). Everything is backwards compatible these days....makes it nice when you're stocking replacements, I guess.

 

[BigJ]

Originally posted by: Scarpozzi

Originally posted by: BigJ

Originally posted by: Shawn
LOL. The smallest hard drive in my computer is 400GB. The largest is 1TB. I guess the 5 year warranty is great if you keep your hard drives for that long.

There's always a use for old hard drives. I still have 8gb drives I use for trying out different Linux distributions.

They're called partitions and a bootloader. It really cleans up the inside of a computer case.

I run into this all the time at work. We order a TON of disks 10k rpm 146GB SCSI drives. One will die and Dell will tell me they can't get a replacement for 3 weeks...but instead they'll send me a 300GB or a 15k rpm drive instead. (doesn't matter since it's RAID 1/5/10)...it will rebuild at the size of the other disks in the array and will run at the lowest speed of any of the drives (10k). Everything is backwards compatible these days....makes it nice when you're stocking replacements, I guess.

I have completely separate boxes for all my needs. HTPC, Development Box, Linux box, SQL Server, etc. Rather than throw spare or old parts out, I just use it in these boxes. My main box (this one) has relatively little storage compared to the other guys. Believe me, I do plenty of partitioning too.

 

[sygyzy]

I love their warranty too but I haven't had anything "upgraded" like you. I sent in a 300GB PATA and got the same back. I just love that it's no hassle. They don't even ask why you are sending it back.

 

[Steve]

I also had good luck with some old IBM Ultrastar SCSI drives, they got upgraded to nicer (faster & quieter) Hitachi models.

 

[RichieZ]

funny i got back the same model 120GB 7200RPM PATA Barracuda 7200.10

 

[takeru]

i sent in a dead 500gig and they me a 750gig back. still 4 years left too on warranty.