Western Digital & Seagate Slash Hard Drive Warranties Again

[Rob Williams]

The Register has dug up information that indicated that first Western Digital, and now Seagate, have instigated new year resolutions for 2012 that’s to trim hard drive warranties across the board. This isn’t the first cut in warranty periods from either vendor, and one has to wonder slightly at the timing of these announcements. Western Digital drives sold after January 2nd and Seagate drives after December 21st will carry the shorter warranties.

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[Glider]

Seagate, perhaps seizing on Western Digital’s announcement, followed up a day later with more drastic cuts. Nearline drives will go from 5 years to 3, Momentus XT & Barracuda XT hybrids from 5 years to 3, and 5 years down to a single year for Barracuda, Barracuda Green, and Momentus drives. Constellation 2 and ES.2 drives will similarly drop to 3 year warranties.

Guess the Baracuda, Baracuda Green and Momentus will disappear in Europe, as there is a mandatory 2 years warranty on electronic products in Europe

 

[Rob Williams]

Hmm, that's interesting. I could see Seagate making an exception for Europe with that being the case.