Brand Western Digital Series Caviar SE16 Model WD5000AAKS Interface SATA 3.0Gb/s Capacity 500GB RPM 7200 RPM Cache 16MB Average Seek Time 8.9ms Average Write Time 10.9ms Average Latency 4.2ms Form Factor 3.5"
Manufacturer Warranty Parts 3 years limited Labor 3 years limited
Anyone know the warranty on this? OEM drives are normally warrantied by the OEM company. Say like Dell purchases 10,000 drives. They are supposed to put them in computers and sell the computers, and then if you buy that computer and the HD dies you get a replacement from Dell. WD doesn't warranty the drive. Odd thing about the description is that it says: "It's value priced and comes with a manufacturer's limited warranty to further protect your investment." How long is that limited warranty? Perhaps only 90 days?
Cal said: Anyone know the warranty on this? OEM drives are normally warrantied by the OEM company. Say like Dell purchases 10,000 drives. They are supposed to put them in computers and sell the computers, and then if you buy that computer and the HD dies you get a replacement from Dell. WD doesn't warranty the drive. Odd thing about the description is that it says: "It's value priced and comes with a manufacturer's limited warranty to further protect your investment." How long is that limited warranty? Perhaps only 90 days?
Manufacturer Warranty Parts 3 years limited Labor 3 years limited
Beersy
Senior Member
posted: Jul. 20, 2008 @ 10:45a
Cal said: Anyone know the warranty on this? OEM drives are normally warrantied by the OEM company. Say like Dell purchases 10,000 drives. They are supposed to put them in computers and sell the computers, and then if you buy that computer and the HD dies you get a replacement from Dell. WD doesn't warranty the drive. Odd thing about the description is that it says: "It's value priced and comes with a manufacturer's limited warranty to further protect your investment." How long is that limited warranty? Perhaps only 90 days?
What you are talking about are CPU's and not hard drives. Please know the difference before you say anything. Hard drives come with full manufacturer warrantee regardless if you buy the retail or the OEM.
WD does warrantee their OEM drives, as does Samsumg, Seagate, Hitachi, etc. I know because I only buy OEM drives and I have sent back the drive to several different manufacturers.....
Please, before you create a worthless post, at least go read the product description!
EDIT: They have booth the AAKS and AACS models on for 74.99 w/ free shipping. I picked up the AAKS for my server (since I already have 3 in it already and wanted the same drive) and an AACS model for my low powered AMD 780G system!
Beersy said: Cal said: Anyone know the warranty on this? OEM drives are normally warrantied by the OEM company. Say like Dell purchases 10,000 drives. They are supposed to put them in computers and sell the computers, and then if you buy that computer and the HD dies you get a replacement from Dell. WD doesn't warranty the drive. Odd thing about the description is that it says: "It's value priced and comes with a manufacturer's limited warranty to further protect your investment." How long is that limited warranty? Perhaps only 90 days?
What you are talking about are CPU's and not hard drives. Please know the difference before you say anything. Hard drives come with full manufacturer warrantee regardless if you buy the retail or the OEM.
WD does warrantee their OEM drives, as does Samsumg, Seagate, Hitachi, etc. I know because I only buy OEM drives and I have sent back the drive to several different manufacturers.....
Please, before you create a worthless post, at least go read the product description!
EDIT: They have booth the AAKS and AACS models on for 74.99 w/ free shipping. I picked up the AAKS for my server (since I already have 3 in it already and wanted the same drive) and an AACS model for my low powered AMD 780G system!
Interesting. I bought an OEM drive and WD claims it has no warranty at all through them- only the OEM. It's a 1tb WD100EAVS (yes, not 'CS').
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