Samsung Ups HDD Warranty to Five Years - Club CDFreaks

**G@M3FR3@K** · 01-10-2004

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Samsung Electronics, the No.1 manufacturer of memory and a promising maker of hard disk drives, plans to increase warranty on its HDDs to five years in an attempt to offer service inline with competing makers like Seagate and WD, who also extended warranties recently.

Full article @ X-bit labs.

**xtacydima** · 01-10-2004

WD used to have 5yrs, now they are down to 3yrs. I think their raptors however are still 5yrs.

Pontyac · 01-10-2004

This is a good move by Samsung. Try their drives people, I can't recommend them enough. Extremely quiet, cheap, and great performance and reliability. What else can you ask for.

01-10-2004	#2 (permalink)
xtacydima Moderator Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Brooklyn, NY, USA Posts: 3,848	Re: Samsung Ups HDD Warranty to Five Years WD used to have 5yrs, now they are down to 3yrs. I think their raptors however are still 5yrs. __________________ My Rig: Antec P160 P4 3.0E GHz running WinXP w/SP2 Scythe SCMN-1000 Heatsink w/Arctic Silver 5 Antec TruePower 2.0 TP2-550 (550W power supply) ASUS P4C800 Deluxe Motherboard 2GB RAM - Corsair XMS TWINX2048 (2x1GB) 3200C2Pro CL2.0 ATI RADEON X850XT AGP 2 - WD 37GB Raptor's (in RAID 0) via onboard Promise controller Western Digital 250GB SATA HDD on Primary SATA channel Western Digital 150GB SATA HDD on Secondary SATA channel Lite-On LTR-52246S 6S0F (IDE1 Master) Lite-On JLMS XJ-HD166S DS1C (IDE1 Slave) *NEC 3500AG 2.TC Quiet* (IDE2 Master) Lite-On SOHW 1673S JS07 (via USB 2.0 to IDE & set to Master)** Found a Solution here helpful? Like the forum's? Well then, what are you waiting for JOIN NOW!!!

01-10-2004	#3 (permalink)
Pontyac CD Freaks Rookie Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 34	Re: Samsung Ups HDD Warranty to Five Years This is a good move by Samsung. Try their drives people, I can't recommend them enough. Extremely quiet, cheap, and great performance and reliability. What else can you ask for.

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