Mike wrote:
On Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:55:27 GMT, Palindrome wrote:

Mike wrote:
Advice/thoughts please. Ordered 3 western digital 750Gb harddrives
from ebuyer last week (£300) all have a manufacturing date of
December 2007. Topically hdisks are not so far behind on dates
since this is also applied as the warranty date fwiw.
Anyone think i should query this?
I wouldn't worry too much, if it has a nominal 5 year warranty.

A working drive will have a value of about 10% of the original price
towards the end of that period. Adjust that for 5 years of inflation.
Adjust for the cost of the 20TByte drives that will probably be common then.

Then adjust that for the fact that you have only lost a couple of
month's warranty, at most.

I would suggest that, at most, you are down by the price of a pint,
compared to having, say, Feb 08 drives.

Hardly seems enough to fuss about - if the drives had had 4 year
manufacturer warranty, instead of 5, would you have been *that* fussed?

Warranty is only 36 months on cavier drives

If the OP has bought a drive with a 36 month warranty, when one with a
60 month warranty would have cost about 20GBP more - he appears to be
valuing the warranty at 1GBP a month, at today's prices.
Price of a pint stuff again...

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Sue