Wow, this is cutting it close...

[Jugernot]

I've got a Seagate Barracuda 20gig ATA100 drive that just started corrupting data and I just checked it's warranty status. The warranty runs out in 1 week! 😀

If this problem had occured just 9 days later, I'd be out of luck!

<< Jugs is one happy mofo! 🙂

 

[VBboy]

Originally posted by: Jugernot
I've got a Seagate Barracuda 20gig ATA100 drive that just started corrupting data and I check it's warranty status. The warranty runs out in 1 week! 😀

If this problem had occured just 9 days later, I'd be out of luck!

<< Jugs is one happy mofo! 🙂

You can usually convince a company to service your product if the warranty ran out less than a month ago.

 

[saltedeggman]

now you have to through the long enduring process of RMA

 

[amnesiac]

Originally posted by: saltedeggman
now you have to through the long enduring process of RMA

Most HD companies are pretty good with RMAs. Western Digital was very painless actually.

 

[slikmunks]

i've never actually come across a bad hd, or had an hd die on me....

 

[DanTMWTMP]

my 30 gig maxtor died on me within a year.....but they sent me an HDD first...a 45 gig one...then i sent my 30 gig in the package they sent me......it was really quick...within 3 days....

 

[saltedeggman]

Originally posted by: DanTMWTMP
my 30 gig maxtor died on me within a year.....but they sent me an HDD first...a 45 gig one...then i sent my 30 gig in the package they sent me......it was really quick...within 3 days....

i love maxtor's drives...

 

[Jugernot]

I've only actually had one other drive die under warranty, a IBM 75GXP 45 gig. They sent me a 60GXP 60gig in exchange. Still running strong...

Hopefully Seagate's process is painless as I ran their utility and it shows nothing wrong with the drive. I've formatted and reinstall Redhat 8 two times and each time I start getting CRC errors after a while.

Jugs

 

[saltedeggman]

Originally posted by: Jugernot
I've only actually had one other drive die under warranty, a IBM 75GXP 45 gig. They sent me a 60GXP 60gig in exchange. Still running strong...

Hopefully Seagate's process is painless as I ran their utility and it shows nothing wrong with the drive. I've formatted and reinstall Redhat 8 two times and each time I start getting CRC errors after a while.

Jugs

victim of deathstar

 

[chiwawa626]

I have a deathstar 75gxp but its oem...is that covered by ibms warrenty?

 

[Liviathan]

I have never RMA an item......

 

[dman]

Under the 3yr warranty I've RMA'd maybe 10 drives (a few not mine). Many times I've already upgraded and don't need immediate replacement, so, I just RMA'd it for a spare. A few times I did the cross ship.

W/ the 1yr warranty I don't think I'll be so lucky. I can't recall ever having a drive fail in the first year... that wasn't in the first 30days. Thus, the 1yr warranty sucks.

 

[onza]

i got a deathstar, still runnign strong aafter 4 o 5 years, *knocking on wood*

 

[C'DaleRider]

Originally posted by: onza
i got a deathstar, still runnign strong aafter 4 o 5 years, *knocking on wood*

And I'd knock every day...............I had 4 RMAs on Deathstars within 1 1/2 years.........sold the last RMA'd drive just to get out from under the IBM cloud.

 

[0roo0roo]

sometimes they advance ship the replacement with your credit card info as balance.