Why Newegg, Seagate, and Klipsch rock!!

[LikeLinus]

Within a 1 week period i had a 24x Lite-On lockup (light stayed on constantly, but bios and windows didn't see it), a 9.1 Seagate 10k Ultra 160 Cheetah go bad in my server, and a speaker for a set of Klipsch v2-400 start sounding blown.

I called Newegg, shipped mine back...they sent me a brand new black 48x Lite-On Pretty nice upgrade from a 24x!!! Woot

I called Klipsch and they sent me back a set of brand new 4.1's!!! Nice upgrade again.

For Seagate, this is actually the 2nd HD i've had fail from them in 2 1/2 weeks. I had this one 9.1 as my OS HD for 3 years now (Warranty doesn't end till 2005, nice) Well if started clicking and i was able to save the few files i needed and yanked it for a backup 9.1 I had. Well after a few days i received the new one and i threw it in there and used my ghost image and was off and running. One week later the damn thing starts clicking!! I called them and told them that i received a remanufactured drive in place of my new one (which i knew i would) and that this HD was used in a Mission Critical Small Business server and we can't afford this amount of downtime and headachs ever week (yeah ok so it was BS, it's just my home server ) I told them i wanted to get a brand new one for replacement. The lady said she couldn't do that cause all she had for RMA's was remanufactured drives. I asked her to speak to a manager, but was very nice and just wanted to say the same thing to him/her. Well she went ahead and took my order and said she needed to put me on hold to go get a manager. I said sure thing. She comes back after like 4-5 minutes (seemed like a long time ..heh) and she said "Well the support manager agrees that it's unfortunate that you've had several drives die in the past two weeks. We're going to give you a brand new 18.2 Ultra 160 Cheetah for a replacement and hope this will help correct the situation. SWEET! It was all very nice and polite and they were really cool about it.

So i got an 18.2 Ultra 160 10k Cheetah for a nice little upgrade

I thought i had a really wacky week of bad luck, but i guess everything turned out in my advantage!!! 3 nice little upgrades for my machines and i didn't even have to spend a dime

I got the klipsch on Monday, got the 40x and the HD today. It's like Christmas in September!!

Happy Happy Joy Joy.

 

[Telinar]

That was fun to read. Wow. You are one lucky guy.

 

[LikeLinus]

I didn't feel lucky for about a week! It was like everything went to hell in 2-3 days. It's all back up and running perfect now

 

[GnomeCop]

heh when you have a string of bad luck and hit rock bottom, things will have to get better

 

[Sniper82]

Maxtor ain't to shabby either. Well right now anyway if they start that 1 year warranty crap that will turn alot of ppl away(me included). Anyway I bought a used 40gig 7200/ATA100 off these forums. After a month of use I woak up one morning and it made 6 clunking sounds. Called Maxtor same day(Tuesday) and they shipped one out and got it on that Friday. It worked good for about a 2-3 weeks and started to fail. I did a dignostics test on it and it failed. Called Maxtor up and told them this is the second drive within a month and I hope they get it right this time .

Well recieved the drive a few days later. Opened it up and BAM a 80gig 7200/ATA133 Quiet Drive(one of their newest models). I was like SWEET. What was funny is right before I opened it up I said to myself it would be cool if they gave me a bigger drive by mistake or something.

I was thinking about buying a Seagate Cuda IV to replace it but not sure.

 

[PuppettMaster001]

wow now I HOPE something in my computer breaks.

 

[Valinos]

Originally posted by: PuppettMaster001
wow now I HOPE something in my computer breaks.

lol, same

I finally got my WD RMA back after a month. Same model drive though :/ You can't get much better than the 800JB tho...