X-Bit Labs is reporting that major hard drive maker, Maxtor, has increased the length of time its products are under warranty. Maxtor are now offering their products under 3 year warranty, up from 1 year. Apparently, the move is being made after rival Seagate increased their warranty time from 3 to 5 years.
This action will come as a relief to many, and a surprise. It was only 2 years ago that the major industry players reduced the length of time their products were under warranty. The move was sparked after a series of high profile product faults that cost hard drive makers a lot of money.
In recent years, the hard drive market has matured with many traditional makers (IBM, Fujitsu) leaving the market. Rapid technological advancement, coupled with tough competition in the market, are cited as reasons for the exits. It's expected that other market players will follow Maxtor and Seagate in increasing the length of warranty.
View: Maxtor Homepage | X-Bit Labs
This action will come as a relief to many, and a surprise. It was only 2 years ago that the major industry players reduced the length of time their products were under warranty. The move was sparked after a series of high profile product faults that cost hard drive makers a lot of money.
In recent years, the hard drive market has matured with many traditional makers (IBM, Fujitsu) leaving the market. Rapid technological advancement, coupled with tough competition in the market, are cited as reasons for the exits. It's expected that other market players will follow Maxtor and Seagate in increasing the length of warranty.
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We use them at my firm for telecom solutions and they have a very high failure rate. ( greater than 25% ). Mind you, the HDD is running non-stop 24/7 but it is not heavily utilized after hours because it's for voicemail.
We just recently started using Seagate drives in lieu of Hitachi. Hopefully will have better results. And now we've got the drive spinning down when the voicemail system is in night mode to extend the life of the drive.
after that we must deal with the manufacturer it self.
anybody got same problems ? and how to deal with it.
and why I cannot find seagate or maxtor harddive for notebook ?
Thanks
http://www.maxtor.com/portal/site/Maxtor/?epi_menuItemID=a14629af82eff9461400585760b46068&epi_menuID=976d37cd478c5826433f226075b46068&epi_baseMenuID=976d37cd478c5826433f226075b46068&channelpath=/en_us/Support/Warranty%20Services/Warranty%20Periods#retail_products_warranty
/Edit: WOOPSE, looks like they are announcing it the first week of september.. guess ill have to wait.
Good move then, 1 year is pathetic.
The only maxtor drive that I've got which is still working well, is the re-branded 60GB Quantum. Now that they've changed the warrenties I'll do so, but in truth I've been using Seagate drives the last few months. I'm very impressed and I used to swear them off as well...after I used to get 50% dead rates out of the crate(back in the mid-90's).
Gah...that comes off rather badly the I used to, but I don't now.
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