HDD Warranty
Posted by: Mr Underhill on 12 October 2013
I got bitten by the Seagate reduced warranty a couple of weeks ago. They have reduced their warranty on consumer HDDs to ONE year.
I am just doing some research on HDDs, so that next time round I can get the best balance between warranty and price.
What are people here buying?
M
Western Digital Red drives in 3TB and 4TB. Three year warranty with excellent replacement service.
Thx Lumos,
Yes, that looks more like it. I need to buy three 4tb disks and I'll move to WD Red ......unless anybody else has a better suggestion?
M
Have they reduced the warranty on their Constellation enterprise drives also (which you should be using for NAS, anyway)?
Frankly sk I would expect any well manufactured HDD to come with a minimum of a 2 year warranty.
The Constellation comes with a 3 year warranty, and the 3TB is 25% more expensive then the WD Red drive equivalent. Think I'll go WD.
In the meantime I have a clutch of Barracuda drives that I am waiting to go pop.
M
Western Digital Red drives in 3TB and 4TB. Three year warranty with excellent replacement service.
Me too. After running four seagate desktop drives in my nas for the last four years I thought it about time to renew the hardware.
the original drives worked faultlessly and continue to do so in a backup nas.
one interesting consequence - the seagates operated at 39 degrees whereas the WD red only run at 32 degrees.
...need to buy three 4tb disks.....
Wow! That is an almost incomprehensible quantity of data.