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Western Digital's warranty on replacement drive
I recently had a Western Digital hard drive go bad on me. I checked the warranty status of it to find that it was covered until 3/21/2006. So, I created an "advanced RMA" and they shipped me another drive. What I rec'd was a "recertified" drive, which was fine with me as long as it worked. Well, it does not work...not even recognized by my BIOS and I heard a low level clicking noise coming from the drive. So, I go back online and check the warranty status of the 2nd bad drive, to find that the warranty for it ends 8/20/2004...about 18 months before the original drive's warranty would have expired. What's up with the replacement drive not being covered until the original drive would have been covered? Very unfair, if you ask me, and I will think twice about buying WD drives from now on. |
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"Bob" wrote in message ... I recently had a Western Digital hard drive go bad on me. I checked the warranty status of it to find that it was covered until 3/21/2006. So, I created an "advanced RMA" and they shipped me another drive. What I rec'd was a "recertified" drive, which was fine with me as long as it worked. Well, it does not work...not even recognized by my BIOS and I heard a low level clicking noise coming from the drive. So, I go back online and check the warranty status of the 2nd bad drive, to find that the warranty for it ends 8/20/2004...about 18 months before the original drive's warranty would have expired. What's up with the replacement drive not being covered until the original drive would have been covered? Very unfair, if you ask me, and I will think twice about buying WD drives from now on. You and many others. I've returned two new WD drives with "three year warranties" within a few days to a couple of weeks of install, as they developed high-pitched whining noises. Both were replaced by WD with drives having about one year warranties. One of the replacements recently started getting flaky. Rather than deal with WD, I chucked it and bought a Samsung. |
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snip : What's up with the replacement drive not being covered until the : original drive would have been covered? Very unfair, if you ask me, : and I will think twice about buying WD drives from now on. :You and many others. I've returned two new WD drives with "three year :warranties" within a few days to a couple of weeks of install, as they :developed high-pitched whining noises. Both were replaced by WD with drives :having about one year warranties. I'll be happy if the drive I get to replace the 2nd bad drive has a one year warranty...this one only had 5 months. :One of the replacements recently started getting flaky. Rather than deal :with WD, I chucked it and bought a Samsung. Hopefully, my situation won't come to that. |
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I believe you still have a 3 year warranty, WD is just not going
out of their way to reaffirm the 3 year warranty. you need to keep all paper work, like the original purchase receipt. "Bob" wrote in message ... I recently had a Western Digital hard drive go bad on me. I checked the warranty status of it to find that it was covered until 3/21/2006. So, I created an "advanced RMA" and they shipped me another drive. What I rec'd was a "recertified" drive, which was fine with me as long as it worked. Well, it does not work...not even recognized by my BIOS and I heard a low level clicking noise coming from the drive. So, I go back online and check the warranty status of the 2nd bad drive, to find that the warranty for it ends 8/20/2004...about 18 months before the original drive's warranty would have expired. What's up with the replacement drive not being covered until the original drive would have been covered? Very unfair, if you ask me, and I will think twice about buying WD drives from now on. |
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