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Thoughts on hdisk dates from ebuyer
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? tia |
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Thoughts on hdisk dates from ebuyer
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? -- Sue |
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Thoughts on hdisk dates from ebuyer
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 |
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Thoughts on hdisk dates from ebuyer
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... -- Sue |
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