[mythtv-users] OT: Seagate to reduce warranties on consumer drives to 3 years from 2009

[Brian Wood]

On Friday 12 December 2008 08:41:10 John Drescher wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Nick Morrott
>
> <knowledgejunkie at gmail.com> wrote:
> > http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/12/12/seagate_cuts_bare_drive_warra
> >nty/
> >
> > If you're thinking of buying a bare/OEM Seagate consumer drive over
> > the holiday period, get it before the end of the year to get the
> > current 5 year warranty.
>
> Hmmm. To me this means I will not purchase only Seagate drives. I mean
> the biggest reason I purchase only seagate drives is the warranty. I
> wonder if they change this when sales take a considerable hit. I know
> this is small potatoes but I have 200 or so Seagate SATA drives
> between home and work.


A lot of people seem to like the 5 year warranty. I would prefer to have a 
drive that doesn't fail, and thus doesn't need a warranty.

Pushing your warranty would seem to imply that your products fail a lot.

Using something that nobody wants to need to sell your product is an odd 
marketing approach

A three-year warranty might be doubled by some credit card contracts.

I wonder how many drives Seagate sells directly to comsumers, and thus has to 
warranty, as opposed to selling to OEMs or system builders, who wind up 
having to support them.

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