From today's NYTimes:
Seagate’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.
“They don’t have components to fix things, so they can’t afford to fix things. They can only sell things now,†Mr. Duplessie said. “It’s bad for the consumer, but it’s kind of a damned if you do, damned if you don’t situation for the manufacturers. They’re going to back off warranties in order to support revenue, or else Wall Street will slaughter them.â€
Seagate’s new warranty policies will become effective on Dec. 31, and Western Digital’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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