If this is a bare OEM drive, how does it have the 3-year HGST warranty?
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If the drive is defective, you pay the postage to send it back to the manufacture and they will replace it with another refurbished drive. It is not a new drive. After 5 defective 2TB drive inside 2 years, we have moved our business to a different drive manufacture. IT is not the cost of the drive that is most expensive cost, it is the cost to rebuild your files that were lost. Hitachi apologizes but didn't really care.
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The drive is warranted- it has a serial # and if it fails you take it out, send it back, and get it replaced.
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http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=810WD Red hard drive covered by the 3 year warranty.
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goto western digitals website and you can check the warranty status with the serial number that is on the drive. Most drives I have bought usually have 1 1/2 to 2 year warranties
700683
3 years according to the adata spec sheet on their website. It's probably 3 years from manufacturing date like all the hard drive companies are doing now.
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The warranty on these things is two years. Mine died 3 days ago, after two and a half years. Perfect planning by Seagate.
523893
Box says 3-year. Read this before you decide to buy anything else: http://blog.backblaze.com/2014/01/21/what-hard-drive-should-i-buy/
982201
That would be correct since you modified the drive by removing it from its case. If you bought the drive separately then a warranty would apply.
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Newegg says 3 years parts/labor. After searching for an hour I couldn't find this on Seagate's website. You'd think they'd be bragging about it on billboards since practically everyone else is down to 1 year (and wouldn't surprise me if they all got rid of a warranty altogether and made people buy at their own wallet's peril).
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Not an answer, but a followup... I bought one of these last week on 26 September 2014 - the description clearly states 5 year warranty. The invoice from goHardDrive.com stated 1 year. When I put my serial number into the warranty checker at hgst.com it said: "NOT VALID FOR WARRANTY Verify warranty status &gt; Ineligible for RMA creation Please return drive to the point of purchase or system manufacturer." So it's apparently an OEM drive, not a retail drive. So far goHardDrive.com haven't replied to my eMail to them. And an hour later they just have responded, with a revised invoice that states on it "5 years Warranty" with my drive's serial number noted. So I guess it's not an HGST warranty, but I'm happy now.
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NOT from this seller - I checked both serial numbers on Seagates Warranty Validation page and see "The product you identified was sold as a system component. Please contact your place of purchase for service."I have a failed drive, and no response from the seller - can't send it back to Seagate.. uh oh.
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It seems like brand new, but the drive itself is not really recently manufactured... it has very minuscule invisible little scratches... very few and only evident after blowing up the picture I took of it.... but it says it was made on 14 july 2008 in Thailand....... so it must be a left over from when drives at 320GB size where beginning to be more popular.... I am sure it doesnt carry a manufacturers warranty since it is old, otherwise it seems unused, therefore new.
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Honestly I don't think I ever paid attention... but I would assume it came with standard 2 year warranty. In any case, these hard drives don't tend to fail months after purchased, either they're DOA (dead on arrival) / die in the first few hours of use because they're defective, or they last for years. My last Seagate external HDD lasted me for TEN years, hence why I bought this one. I wouldn't worry about it too much, Seagate has pretty decent customer support.
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LaCie online says it is a limited 3 year warranty; I didn't read the details. I have owned at least 9 LaCie drives through the years and never had a problem with one except to outgrow it's capacity!
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Most of the manufacturers have done away with the 5 year warranties on the majority of their drives. This one only comes with a 1 year warranty. Some of the better quality, heavier duty drives come with a 3 year warranty, but you typically pay a lot more for those drives. Check newegg. They may have one with a better warranty in your price range.
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I think this is the current model of the same product: http://www.hgst.com/hard-drives/internal-drive-kits/desktop-drive-kits
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The ones being fulfilled by Amazon are not factory new, and different sellers would have different warranties probably ending at 30 days. These are used drives that may have been mechanically refurbished (mine wasn't physically repaired but it had been used).
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OEM drives in my case, possibly European models not for sale in the US. Not covered by manufacturer's warranty - at least, not on the four drives I purchased and received today (and am sending back tomorrow). Strange that Amazon doesn't require sellers to publish warranty info. It's as if they encourage sales of gray market goods.