Why is Seagate now only offering 2 Year Warranties?

2048Megabytes

2048Megabytes

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I was just looking at a lot of Seagate hard drives on NewEgg. I was disappointed to see Seagate is now only offering 2 year warranties on their products. Seagate used to have 3 year warranties. Samsung and Western Digital have 3 year warranties on their products (some Western Digital hard drives have 5 year warranties). What is the deal with Seagate? Are they afraid of their quality control?
 
Dont know, probably a cost saving measure. Some of there Pipelines/Constellation/XT drives still have a 3/5 year warranty.
 
I will not buy any Seagate hard drives with a two year warranty. It is a cheap move to just push the customer aside in my opinion. A decent hard drive should at least last at least 3.5 years in my opinion. All hard disk drives I have purchased thus far have lasted longer than that.

A Seagate hard drive I bought had a 3 year warranty on it back in 2009. It will be under warranty until March 2012 and I haven't had any problems with it thus far.
 
I've had better luck with Seagates drives then any other manufacture.

Western Digital bought Hitachi hard drive unit. You know Seagate is buying Samsung hard drive unit for 1.376 billion.
 
Never had a Seagate drive fail on me ever, and I've owned quite a few (around six or so).

Lowering their warranty to two years could very well be a cost-saving measure like StrangleHold said, but it won't stop me from buying Seagate. I actually just bought a Seagate drive a couple days ago.
 
I just read Western Digital bought Hitachi back in March 2011. The merged companies will continue to operate under the Western Digital brand. Makes me want to buy Samsung hard disk drives unless Seagate decides to cut the warranty to two years on those.

It's best to stick with 1 terabyte and lower capacity models I hear with Samsung, Seagate and Western Digital. They are more reliable. It that true in your opinion?
 
mihir said:
Would seagate still market them as samsung drives or seagate drives?
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I would think so, but who knows. Would depend if it was for market share or technology. Could combine the two and call it Seasung or Samgate.

2048Megabytes said:
I just read Western Digital bought Hitachi back in March 2011. The merged companies will continue to operate under the Western Digital brand.
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I would say W/D will keep selling Hitachi under the Hitachi name. In this deal it was just for market share. There was nothing on the technology side that W/D needed from Hitachi.
 
I've never considered warranty length when purchasing an HDD. With few exceptions, the HDDs I've purchased have all lasted well past the warranty period. Those that failed did so well within the warranty period.
 
IMO, having a two year warranty is a plain out bad sign. A few years back, they had a 5 year warranty on all their drives...then 3....and now 2. If their drives weren't dying before the 3 year mark, then why would they have to shorten the warranty?
 
It could very well be a cost saving measure, or possibly they're seeing that hard drive technology is advancing at a fast enough rate (think SATA transfer rates over the past couple years), and even the possibility that they're expecting more users to be going the SSD route, that they're not anticipating the drives will fail within the time they'll be used. It's probably because some statistician noticed that they only received X number of drives back for warranty within the period, that they could cut it back and save. Just a guess though.
 
2048Megabytes said:
I just read Western Digital bought Hitachi back in March 2011. The merged companies will continue to operate under the Western Digital brand. Makes me want to buy Samsung hard disk drives unless Seagate decides to cut the warranty to two years on those.

It's best to stick with 1 terabyte and lower capacity models I hear with Samsung, Seagate and Western Digital. They are more reliable. It that true in your opinion?
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Seems fine to me. No problems yet.
 
All companies are going down this path....minimum warranty and if you want extended warranty pay for more.

It is a way of making money plus the products are more cheaper these days as it is a throw away society.

Simple as that!!!
 
MMM said:
All companies are going down this path....minimum warranty and if you want extended warranty pay for more.

It is a way of making money plus the products are more cheaper these days as it is a throw away society.

Simple as that!!!
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I really hope that Seagate keeps Samsung's HDD manufacturing process and manufactures HDDs under Samsung's name just how they were before they got bought. Samsung hard drives were great!
 
spynoodle said:
I really hope that Seagate keeps Samsung's HDD manufacturing process and manufactures HDDs under Samsung's name just how they were before they got bought. Samsung hard drives were great!
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If Seagate executives are intelligent they will leave Samsung hard drive manufacturing as is. I am sold on Samsung hard drives after buying the Spinpoint F4 HD322GJ/U. This drive has great read speeds and it is very reliable to me thus far.
 
2048Megabytes said:
If Seagate executives are intelligent they will leave Samsung hard drive manufacturing as is. I am sold on Samsung hard drives after buying the Spinpoint F4 HD322GJ/U. This drive has great read speeds and it is very reliable to me thus far.
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Dont know how it will turn out. Seagate in harddrives, out sold Samsung 3 to 1. Before Western Digital bought Hitachi, Seagate was the biggest harddrive manufacture. But my (guess) is they will keep the names separate.
 
2048Megabytes said:
If Seagate executives are intelligent they will leave Samsung hard drive manufacturing as is. I am sold on Samsung hard drives after buying the Spinpoint F4 HD322GJ/U. This drive has great read speeds and it is very reliable to me thus far.
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Sweet, you've got the F4? That thing is freakin beast. :D
 
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