This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] "Seagate and Western Digital Reduce Warranties for Some Hard Drives"

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Re: [Avid-L2] "Seagate and Western Digital Reduce Warranties for Some Hard Drives"

Thanks Wilson. Distressing news.

In case it has not been stated, many storage solutions manufacturers
have quietly adjusted their pricing upward over the last 2 months
(temporarily) and have limited stock and RMA units on hand. There's no
way Thailand should be used as an excuse to slash warranties though.

Last month, I was able to get my hands on 24 x 3TB drives for an array.
Don't know how easy that would be right now.

RT

wilsonchao wrote:

>
>
> From today's NYTimes:
>
> SeagateâEUR^(TM)s warranties for internal desktop and laptop drives
> will be reduced to one year from five years. . .
>
> Steve Duplessie, an analyst with the Enterprise Strategy Group, said
> that reducing a warranty was highly unusual and that he could not
> think of another such instance. He suggested that it was related to
> the Thailand floods.
>
> âEURoeThey donâEUR^(TM)t have components to fix things, so they
> canâEUR^(TM)t afford to fix things. They can only sell things
> now,âEUR? Mr. Duplessie said. âEURoeItâEUR^(TM)s bad for the consumer,
> but itâEUR^(TM)s kind of a damned if you do, damned if you
> donâEUR^(TM)t situation for the manufacturers. TheyâEUR^(TM)re going
> to back off warranties in order to support revenue, or else Wall
> Street will slaughter them.âEUR?
>
> SeagateâEUR^(TM)s new warranty policies will become effective on Dec.
> 31, and Western DigitalâEUR^(TM)s changes will begin Jan. 2, 2012.
> Hard drives bought before those dates will retain their original
> warranty policies.
>
> http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/20/seagate-wd-storage-warranty/
>
>

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