[Gllug] Life of hard drives

[John Edwards]

On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 12:48:07AM +0000, Tom Taylor wrote:
> On Thursday 06 March 2003 11:19 pm, Dermot Moynihan wrote:
> > I bought a Western Digital Caviar 7200RPM 40GB less than 2 years ago from
> > Simply Computers and it's already making threatening noises.
> 
> I bought a Maxtor 40GB 7200 about 18 moths ago, it started showing problems 
> after 13 months (bad sectors etc), by 15 months it was dead (not even being 
> detected by bios) ... I think it probably had a clock in it that told it to 
> die ASAP after the 1 yr waranty ended :-(
> 
> If by any chance anyone knows if maxtor actually give 3yr waranties, I'd be 
> gratfeul for you to tell me, but I very much doubt it (:-( again)

Up until about 6 months ago Maxtor drives did come with a three year 
warranty. Returns are to Ireland - go to their website and enter the 
model & serial number to check the warranty.

I suspect that the reduction of warranty on most IDE drives is to 
reduce future risk from poor quality manufacture or parts - to 
avoid what happened to Fujitsu when huge numbers of drives failed.

IDE drives with 3 years warranties tend to be almost as expensive 
as SCSI drives now.


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