are warranties necessary for internal hard drives?
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For $7, it would be silly not to. If it fails one day and ends up being a big hassle, you'd say "man, all this for a lousy $7."
Usually with warranties it only covers the product and not the contents. So if something goes wrong with your hard drive and fails and you get it "fix" all you data may be gone. After that even though you may have a fixed hard drive or a new one, i'd be skeptical about using it on important stuff, thus defeating the purpose of having a warranty on it.
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Most internal hard drives already have 3 or 5 year warranties as it is, so adding a $7 expense to a drive that already is 3 or 5 year warrantied makes no sense.
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[quote name='CaoPi']how do I know if mine already has a warranty on it?[/QUOTE]
Do people not know how warranties work any more?
If you bought the drive retail, it'll have whatever factory warranty the drive will have from date of purchase, be it 3 years or 5 years. If you go to the manufacturer's product page for the drive you purchased, it'll tell you what the drive's warranty is from date of purchase.
Also, if you go to the manufacturer's support page, there will be an entry somewhere on the support pages to verify the warranty from the serial numer of the drive. That verification will most likely be from date of manufacture, so it may not be the full timeframe of (date of purchase + 3 / 5 years), though it'll show you what the warranty is on the drive regardless of the drive being purchased new or used. If your date of purchase + 3 / 5 years is more than what you'd see on the manufacturer's support page for the warranty verification, then your receipt would show you to have a longer warranty.
Samsung support page:
http://www.samsung.com/in/support/main/supportMain.do#
Samsung HDD Warranty Verification page:
http://www.samsung.com/in/support/warranty/hddWarrantyCheck.do?page=HDD.WARRANTY.CHECK
Samsung HDD Warranty Period Information:
http://www.samsung.com/in/support/warranty/warrantyInformation.do?page=POLICY.WARRANTY
It's all there if you took the time to look on your own.
Do people not know how warranties work any more?
If you bought the drive retail, it'll have whatever factory warranty the drive will have from date of purchase, be it 3 years or 5 years. If you go to the manufacturer's product page for the drive you purchased, it'll tell you what the drive's warranty is from date of purchase.
Also, if you go to the manufacturer's support page, there will be an entry somewhere on the support pages to verify the warranty from the serial numer of the drive. That verification will most likely be from date of manufacture, so it may not be the full timeframe of (date of purchase + 3 / 5 years), though it'll show you what the warranty is on the drive regardless of the drive being purchased new or used. If your date of purchase + 3 / 5 years is more than what you'd see on the manufacturer's support page for the warranty verification, then your receipt would show you to have a longer warranty.
Samsung support page:
http://www.samsung.com/in/support/main/supportMain.do#
Samsung HDD Warranty Verification page:
http://www.samsung.com/in/support/warranty/hddWarrantyCheck.do?page=HDD.WARRANTY.CHECK
Samsung HDD Warranty Period Information:
http://www.samsung.com/in/support/warranty/warrantyInformation.do?page=POLICY.WARRANTY
It's all there if you took the time to look on your own.
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[quote name='shrike4242']Do people not know how warranties work any more?
If you bought the drive retail, it'll have whatever factory warranty the drive will have from date of purchase, be it 3 years or 5 years. If you go to the manufacturer's product page for the drive you purchased, it'll tell you what the drive's warranty is from date of purchase.[/QUOTE]
But buying one from the retailer adds the convenience of exchanging it there should it fail instead of paying to ship it to the manufacturer and having them stick you with a fee or jump through hoops. When my 360 RROD'd, Microsoft refused to fix it even though it was within warranty. That was an instant pain-in-the-ass hassle and a ton of lawns I could have avoided mowing to replace it had I elected to spend the extra few dollars to cover it at the store.
Of course, the flipside is why spend more than you have to when it's just as likely you'll end up not needing it at all.
If you bought the drive retail, it'll have whatever factory warranty the drive will have from date of purchase, be it 3 years or 5 years. If you go to the manufacturer's product page for the drive you purchased, it'll tell you what the drive's warranty is from date of purchase.[/QUOTE]
But buying one from the retailer adds the convenience of exchanging it there should it fail instead of paying to ship it to the manufacturer and having them stick you with a fee or jump through hoops. When my 360 RROD'd, Microsoft refused to fix it even though it was within warranty. That was an instant pain-in-the-ass hassle and a ton of lawns I could have avoided mowing to replace it had I elected to spend the extra few dollars to cover it at the store.
Of course, the flipside is why spend more than you have to when it's just as likely you'll end up not needing it at all.
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[quote name='Survivalism']But buying one from the retailer adds the convenience of exchanging it there should it fail instead of paying to ship it to the manufacturer and having them stick you with a fee or jump through hoops. When my 360 RROD'd, Microsoft refused to fix it even though it was within warranty. That was an instant pain-in-the-ass hassle and a ton of lawns I could have avoided mowing to replace it had I elected to spend the extra few dollars to cover it at the store.
Of course, the flipside is why spend more than you have to when it's just as likely you'll end up not needing it at all.[/QUOTE]Out of all of the drives I'd had to RMA in my life, I've never had a vendor stick me with a fee or jump through hoops. Comparing a drive replacement in warranty to a Xbox 360 replacement in warranty isn't a valid comparison.
Drive vendors will go through some troubleshooting steps to determine if the drive is dead or not, and if dead, work through the RMA process. It's pretty straightforward and these days, little to no hassle.
Of course, the flipside is why spend more than you have to when it's just as likely you'll end up not needing it at all.[/QUOTE]Out of all of the drives I'd had to RMA in my life, I've never had a vendor stick me with a fee or jump through hoops. Comparing a drive replacement in warranty to a Xbox 360 replacement in warranty isn't a valid comparison.
Drive vendors will go through some troubleshooting steps to determine if the drive is dead or not, and if dead, work through the RMA process. It's pretty straightforward and these days, little to no hassle.
[quote name='shrike4242']Out of all of the drives I'd had to RMA in my life, I've never had a vendor stick me with a fee or jump through hoops. Comparing a drive replacement in warranty to a Xbox 360 replacement in warranty isn't a valid comparison.
Drive vendors will go through some troubleshooting steps to determine if the drive is dead or not, and if dead, work through the RMA process. It's pretty straightforward and these days, little to no hassle.[/QUOTE]
I've only heard good things from square trade, but doesn't really matter if this is an internal hard drive or not I figured?
This is my first time putting in an internal hard drive so I wasn't sure how the warranty process worked
I owned 3 home PC's in the past for a good number of 5+ years and the HDD never went bad...
While I've heard Western Digital being the most recommended, but I figured Samsung, Seagate or Hitachi wouldn't be as bad as 2 of these are stored on retail PS3s
thanks for the info about samsung though this was what I got on their page
Hard Disk Drive
Product Warranty Period Part Not Covered Hard Disk Drive 1) 5 years limited warranty for drives
manufactured from Aug'04 to April'07 and from
Aug'08 onwards. (Warranty applicable from the
month of manufacture)
2) For HDDs manufactured in the period May'07 to Jul'08, customer need to contact respective
distributor/retailer for warranty support.
Drive vendors will go through some troubleshooting steps to determine if the drive is dead or not, and if dead, work through the RMA process. It's pretty straightforward and these days, little to no hassle.[/QUOTE]
I've only heard good things from square trade, but doesn't really matter if this is an internal hard drive or not I figured?
This is my first time putting in an internal hard drive so I wasn't sure how the warranty process worked
I owned 3 home PC's in the past for a good number of 5+ years and the HDD never went bad...
While I've heard Western Digital being the most recommended, but I figured Samsung, Seagate or Hitachi wouldn't be as bad as 2 of these are stored on retail PS3s
thanks for the info about samsung though this was what I got on their page
Hard Disk Drive
Product Warranty Period Part Not Covered Hard Disk Drive 1) 5 years limited warranty for drives
manufactured from Aug'04 to April'07 and from
Aug'08 onwards. (Warranty applicable from the
month of manufacture)
2) For HDDs manufactured in the period May'07 to Jul'08, customer need to contact respective
distributor/retailer for warranty support.
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