What Will Seagate Do? If Seagate authorises a product to=20 be returned to Seagate or an authorised service provider,=20 Seagate will replace the drive without charge with a=20 functionally equivalent replacement product. Seagate=20 may replace a product with a product that was previously=20 used, repaired and tested to meet Seagate specifications.=20 By sending product for replacement, ownership of the=20 original product will be transferred to Seagate. Seagate=20 will not return original drives to consumers. Data=20 recovery is not covered under this warranty and is not=20 part of the repair or exchange process. If you would=20 like data recovery performed on your drive, it is=20 available from Seagate as a separate service for an=20 additional charge. Seagate warrants that repaired or=20 replaced products are covered for the greater of=20 either the remainder of the original product warranty=20 or 90 days. >>> On 10/3/2007 at 4:20 PM, in message <47040788.1000808 at umn.edu>, = Jonathan Osborne <jwo at umn.edu> wrote: > Why does a five-year warranty make them great? I own a couple seagates > and they've been good so far. But the warranty doesn't really mean > anything. They probably figured out that if they advertise a five-year > warranty, they'll sell more drives, offsetting (or perhaps even > exceeding) the cost of replacing drives further into the future. >=20 > Besides, it's the data that's important, not the drive. And even if > they make good on the warranty 4 1/2 years from now, it'll probably be a > "refurbished" drive anyway. Would you trust that? > Marc Skinner said the following on 10/03/2007 16.03 >> Troy.A Johnson wrote: >>>>>> On 10/3/2007 at 3:12 PM, in message <4703F7C5.40107 at e-skinner.net>, = Marc >>> Skinner <marc at e-skinner.net> wrote: >>>> Chad Walstrom wrote: >>>>> Is it the 7200.10 series or 7200.9 series. Go for the .10 if you = can >>>>> get it. NewEgg.com has the .10 series for $119 as well. >>>>> >>>> yup it is: >>>> Device Model: ST3500630AS >>>> 16mb of cache as well! >>> I bought a couple of the 7200.10 disks recently, but one is clicking a = bit. >>> It works for now, but I see myself using that warranty sometime in = the=20 > future. >>> >> i learned my lesson a long time ago, i don't have any drives in my = house >> that aren't raid-1 or raid-5. it is a life saver! i also do backups = of >> my most critical data, so far, raid has saved me from ever having to = dip >> into a restore. but there will come a time. the seagates are great >> cause they have a 5 year warranty. i know have 10 of those drives, = i'll >> see what happens, but so for 6 of them have been running non-stop for >> about 4 months now, the other 4 i just put into servers today.