[ale] OT. Dead harddrive on laptop

[Pat Regan]

On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:22:15 -0500
JD <jdp at algoloma.com> wrote:

> I looked for 5 yr warranty 7200 rpm HDDs recently - they either do
> not exist anymore or are too expensive (2x price) of other HDDs.  3
> yr seems to be the new warranty standard for non-cheap HDDs. I
> definitely have at least 6 seagates spinning here now - all with 5 yr
> warranties that have not expired. I do not expect to replace them
> with Seagates when the time comes. I have a long memory.

Every manufacturer has been offering three year warranties since at
least the late nineties.  Seagate's extra 2 years aren't worth very
much.  After three years it isn't worth the shipping cost to replace a
small, dead hard drive with a small, refurbished one.

Pat