- Sep 9, 2001
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(note: the hot deal here is making sure you got the 5 year warranty you paid for)
From some of these recent outpost.com deals I have purchased two 300 gig SATA drives. One each of 8 meg and 16 meg cache models.
http://5yrwarranty.seagatestorage.com/?elqPURLPage=540
Per the above page, all seagate retail boxed drives (and almost all others) are supposed to have a 5 year warranty from any drive purchased after mid 2004.
Warranty check: http://support.seagate.com/customer/warranty_validation.jsp
The 8 meg cache comes up correctly as warranty until 2010.
The 16 meg cache model comes up warranty good until 2007 only.
Everyone still should be able to get the 5 year warranty, just that there's a few steps nessasary. Hence why I'm trying to alert people Below are the details.
And its not that the drive was manufactured years ago, the manufacture date is mid 2005. (seagate didn't even have SATA 16 meg drives more than 1 year or so ago, I think the 7200.8 was released in mid 2005).
I called them and they told me I needed to send in a "high resolution scan" of 3 things: the top of the drive, my outpost receipt, and the box front with the 5 year warranty sticker to custserv@seagate.com and then they can give me the 5 year warranty.
I'm emailing them to find out more, but I know there's been other people reporting the same thing with these drives giving warranties from seagates page of 2007.
(you can see someone else who here: http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=40&threadid=1779765 )
So make sure to check the warranty on yours. You can retrieve your serial and model number using this program (if you dont have the box handy and dont want to open up your computer case):
http://www.passmark.com/products/diskcheckup.htm
Note that you'll need to have S.M.A.R.T. enabled in BIOS, which helps to give early warning of failing drives for this program to work.
A 2 year warranty would really suck on a brand new 16 meg cache 300 gig seagate drive. So I wanted to alert everyone who bought this drive (or is planning to buy it) to make sure to check your warranty.
(my guess is that this 16 meg cache model (and perhaps other capacities) slipped through the cracks somewhere in applying the new 5 year warranties, since its a retail drive only, and probably because its not listed as a model number on seagates product information pages)
From some of these recent outpost.com deals I have purchased two 300 gig SATA drives. One each of 8 meg and 16 meg cache models.
http://5yrwarranty.seagatestorage.com/?elqPURLPage=540
Per the above page, all seagate retail boxed drives (and almost all others) are supposed to have a 5 year warranty from any drive purchased after mid 2004.
Warranty check: http://support.seagate.com/customer/warranty_validation.jsp
The 8 meg cache comes up correctly as warranty until 2010.
The 16 meg cache model comes up warranty good until 2007 only.
Everyone still should be able to get the 5 year warranty, just that there's a few steps nessasary. Hence why I'm trying to alert people Below are the details.
And its not that the drive was manufactured years ago, the manufacture date is mid 2005. (seagate didn't even have SATA 16 meg drives more than 1 year or so ago, I think the 7200.8 was released in mid 2005).
I called them and they told me I needed to send in a "high resolution scan" of 3 things: the top of the drive, my outpost receipt, and the box front with the 5 year warranty sticker to custserv@seagate.com and then they can give me the 5 year warranty.
I'm emailing them to find out more, but I know there's been other people reporting the same thing with these drives giving warranties from seagates page of 2007.
(you can see someone else who here: http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=40&threadid=1779765 )
So make sure to check the warranty on yours. You can retrieve your serial and model number using this program (if you dont have the box handy and dont want to open up your computer case):
http://www.passmark.com/products/diskcheckup.htm
Note that you'll need to have S.M.A.R.T. enabled in BIOS, which helps to give early warning of failing drives for this program to work.
A 2 year warranty would really suck on a brand new 16 meg cache 300 gig seagate drive. So I wanted to alert everyone who bought this drive (or is planning to buy it) to make sure to check your warranty.
(my guess is that this 16 meg cache model (and perhaps other capacities) slipped through the cracks somewhere in applying the new 5 year warranties, since its a retail drive only, and probably because its not listed as a model number on seagates product information pages)