Back when Seagate had 5 year warranty their drives were much more reliable. In any case I have never had any brand name hard drive fail on me yet, so I am truely surprised to see people reporting drive failure within a few months. I would buy this if I had the budget for more storage space. 1 year warranty plus 1 from your credit card should be enough. No one should have critical data stored on one drive anyway. If you are gonna use it for adult content, who cares if data is lost
This long warranty can be a joke. In theory, you can be covered as short as 3 plus months. For example, you drive dies in the first month, they will send you a refurbished drive, which only have 90 days warranty. After 90 days, if the drive died, you are on your own.
This long warranty can be a joke. In theory, you can be covered as short as 3 plus months. For example, you drive dies in the first month, they will send you a refurbished drive, which only have 90 days warranty. After 90 days, if the drive died, you are on your own.
I had one replaced under warranty although be it about 4 years ago was told by Seagate that I would still have my full warranty even though my drive was replaced with a refurb. I kept my email and paper work on this just in case but never had to use.
Those reviews tell me the crap quality era of Seagate continues. 'Tis a shame they've fallen so far and haven't recovered. There used to be a time I preferred Seagate, but not since a few years' streak of failure after failure after premature failure.
kuelllin said: Why does the most important part in a computer have the least reliability? What is the advanced technology?
Anyway if consumers really thought the hard drive was the most important they would pay $100 extra for a raid or a built in backup system but instead they opt to pay $200 more for extra little intel hamsters cranking the engine.
I agree that the HD is most important, that's why I don't quibble over having a $100 3TB drive in every drawer of my house and scatter around various family and friends houses and also a few in other countries and one in orbit. I'm also eagerly awaiting the next moon and mars missions to be safe.
I bought seven of these on black friday, shucked the shells, and have them installed in my home media server. I've had 0 problems with any of the drives, and they've been running 24/7 since installation. they run a little bit warm. i have them in a case that has 8 hard drive bays, so the spacing between them is a bit lacking. even so, I have a couple of good quality case fans blowing on them, and the temps never get close to any dangerous range.
Why are external hard drives consistently cheaper than internal drives? The external drive is an internal drive with a bunch of additional parts. Doesn't make sense to me.
I've needed a 3 TB internal for a while. I would remove the drive from the case as others have done but I heard that voids the warranty. Is that true?
Also, a lot of people with older computers give bad reviews to 3 TB+ hard drives because their computer can't handle a drive larger than 2 TB.
This long warranty can be a joke. In theory, you can be covered as short as 3 plus months. For example, you drive dies in the first month, they will send you a refurbished drive, which only have 90 days warranty. After 90 days, if the drive died, you are on your own.
That's bullshit. 5 years is 5 years. They should honor the drive for 5 years. Someone should complain to the state attorney general. Seems like false advertising.
namlook said: f2000sa said: Seagate had 5 year warranty
This long warranty can be a joke. In theory, you can be covered as short as 3 plus months. For example, you drive dies in the first month, they will send you a refurbished drive, which only have 90 days warranty. After 90 days, if the drive died, you are on your own.
That's bullshit. 5 years is 5 years. They should honor the drive for 5 years. Someone should complain to the state attorney general. Seems like false advertising. They do. He's wrong.
f2000sa said: This long warranty can be a joke. In theory, you can be covered as short as 3 plus months. For example, you drive dies in the first month, they will send you a refurbished drive, which only have 90 days warranty. After 90 days, if the drive died, you are on your own.
This is just lazy and false. Warranty is still good for the specified period of the product.
Thanks for the deal. Are these eBay $25 off $75 coupons valid? They are selling for around $10. I just wanted to make sure they work on this hard drive deal before buying them
And for AMEX Platium Card holders 5% back on office supplies so... -$4.11
Total after CC $78.00
Not sure if fatwallet 2.5% works on Technology.
If so... that would be another $2 off.
Would you be able to share what the $25 off $75 code is...can't find one anywhere. 99% of $25 off $$ are one time use only. Got to have one mailed/emailed/sent to you by Staples, or take your chances and buy one from something like ejun*y or eBay.
I got lucky, and got one someone was trashing in their junk mail a few months ago.
Now does anyone know how to get dd-wrt/tomato to mirror two usb drives...
Redw000d said: Wait, am I Dumb? .. I searched and searced.. even use, 25OFF ... nothing worked.. someone want to TELL me the code? thanks Yes you are. There is no code to tell. You have to get your own $25 off $$$ coupon from Staples, a very kind person, or buy one from the grey market as they are one time use only.
starcastic said: Dammit, my $40 of $80 expired yesterday.Somebody correct me if I'm wrong but most Staples coupons are still good a couple days after expiration. The number of days varies with the type of coupon. Heck, it's definitely worth trying and if it doesn't work online, you can try to order it through phone (if that's not restricted on the coupon verbiage) and have the CSR manually apply it for you.
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