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Hitachi RMA response - how fast?
In practice, how fast does Hitachi send out a replacement for a drive
returned under RMA? Their RMA status web page has this message: Please be aware that you may experience a delay in receiving your replacement disk drive based on stock availability. If product is available, your replacement order will be processed within 14 working days after the receipt of your defective disk drive. ----------------- Are they saying that if there are no more drives available, then I'm outta luck? |
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Hitachi RMA response - how fast?
Andrew Hamilton wrote:
In practice, how fast does Hitachi send out a replacement for a drive returned under RMA? Their RMA status web page has this message: Please be aware that you may experience a delay in receiving your replacement disk drive based on stock availability. If product is available, your replacement order will be processed within 14 working days after the receipt of your defective disk drive. ----------------- Are they saying that if there are no more drives available, then I'm outta luck? No. Just that it could take a couple of weeks if the have no drive in your size ready to be shipped. Arno -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F ---- Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans |
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Hitachi RMA response - how fast?
In article , Andrew Hamilton
writes Are they saying that if there are no more drives available, then I'm outta luck? No, they'll send you the next capacity drive up that they do have in stock. e.g. if you send in a 250GB and they have none in, they'll send you a 320GB instead. -- (\__/) (='.'=) Bunny says Windows 7 is Vi$ta reloaded. (")_(") http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/windows_7.png |
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Hitachi RMA response - how fast?
Mike Tomlinson wrote:
Andrew Hamilton writes In practice, how fast does Hitachi send out a replacement for a drive returned under RMA? Their RMA status web page has this message: Please be aware that you may experience a delay in receiving your eplacement disk drive based on stock availability. If product is available, your replacement order will be processed within 14 working days after the receipt of your defective disk drive. Are they saying that if there are no more drives available, then I'm outta luck? No, they'll send you the next capacity drive up that they do have in stock. e.g. if you send in a 250GB and they have none in, they'll send you a 320GB instead. Doesnt explain why that should take longer. |
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Hitachi RMA response - how fast?
On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:24:53 +0000, Mike Tomlinson
wrote: In article , Andrew Hamilton writes Are they saying that if there are no more drives available, then I'm outta luck? No, they'll send you the next capacity drive up that they do have in stock. e.g. if you send in a 250GB and they have none in, they'll send you a 320GB instead. Since I sent in a 1 TB drive, I can only hope that Hitachi will ship me their new 2 TB model. LOL!~ As of 10 minutes ago, the Hitachi website said that they had still not shipped out a replacement drive. There is still hope. I'll keep the group posted. -ah |
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Hitachi RMA response - how fast?
Andrew Hamilton wrote:
On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:23:34 -0700, me/2 wrote: On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:24:53 +0000, Mike Tomlinson wrote: In article , Andrew Hamilton writes Are they saying that if there are no more drives available, then I'm outta luck? No, they'll send you the next capacity drive up that they do have in stock. e.g. if you send in a 250GB and they have none in, they'll send you a 320GB instead. I've been lucky in that I've only had one hard drive failure in the last 20 years or so. It was a 160 GB Seagate IDE drive about 2 years ago. I did an online RMA request, shipped the drive off and less than a week later I received a 250 GB as a replacement. The replacement still has around 2 years left of the original 5 year warranty. me/2 Well, I've also had very good luck with both Seagate and Hitachi drives, until now. And, it's been over 2 weeks now since Hitachi received the drive back from me, but still no replacement drive shipped. Is there any possibility that Hitachi will simply say, "Sorry no drives available. Go away?" Nope, legally they cant do that. They have to ship you something, often a bigger drive short stroked to the size of the one you sent them. |
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Hitachi RMA response - how fast?
Andrew Hamilton wrote:
On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:23:34 -0700, me/2 wrote: On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:24:53 +0000, Mike Tomlinson wrote: :In article , Andrew Hamilton writes : :Are they saying that if there are no more drives available, then I'm :outta luck? : :No, they'll send you the next capacity drive up that they do have in :stock. e.g. if you send in a 250GB and they have none in, they'll send :you a 320GB instead. I've been lucky in that I've only had one hard drive failure in the last 20 years or so. It was a 160 GB Seagate IDE drive about 2 years ago. I did an online RMA request, shipped the drive off and less than a week later I received a 250 GB as a replacement. The replacement still has around 2 years left of the original 5 year warranty. me/2 Well, I've also had very good luck with both Seagate and Hitachi drives, until now. And, it's been over 2 weeks now since Hitachi received the drive back from me, but still no replacement drive shipped. Is there any possibility that Hitachi will simply say, "Sorry no drives available. Go away?" No, that would be fraudulent. But two weeks would be very fast for a cheap consumer=grade device. Arno -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F ---- Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans |
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Hitachi RMA response - how fast?
On 12 Nov 2009 10:07:54 GMT, Arno wrote:
No, that would be fraudulent. But two weeks would be very fast for a cheap consumer=grade device. Thanks, Arno. The web site promises a replacement, "if available." Sounds pretty weasel-word-y to me. If I don't get a replacement soon, I will have to go out and buy another drive. I suppose I can always use the extra storage, SIGH. -AH Arno |
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Hitachi RMA response - how fast?
Andrew Hamilton wrote
Arno wrote No, that would be fraudulent. But two weeks would be very fast for a cheap consumer=grade device. The web site promises a replacement, "if available." Sounds pretty weasel-word-y to me. More fool you. Operations like that know what the law requires. If I don't get a replacement soon, I will have to go out and buy another drive. I suppose I can always use the extra storage, SIGH. |
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