[ale] Seagate 500GB Sata-CRASH!-UPDATE

[Geoffrey]

Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Sat January 17 2009, Greg Freemyer wrote:
>> If you're close to Norcross (Tech Park), then I likely have one of
>> those 500GB drives on the shelf that is working.
> 
> well, I shipped the drive back to Seagate, and I got my confirmation back 
> today. In the email was this standard blurb:
>  
> Seagate Return Policy
>  Your original drive will NOT be returned. Any data on the drive will be lost. 
> The replacement drive will be low-level formatted. If you need the data on 
> the drive and do not have a backup copy, you may want to consider data 
> recovery services before shipping the drive to Seagate for replacement. 
> Please see: http://services.seagate.com/ for additional information on 
> Seagate’s data recovery service.
> 
> I know I heard someone mention that they would get your data back for you, but 
> they obviously don't ask unless you do..

I find it terribly hard to believe that any hard drive manufacturer is 
going to spend the time to recover your data and send it back to you.  I 
just don't believe they're going to spend that time.


-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

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temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
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