On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 12:37 -0600, Don Ellis wrote: > The _remainder_ of the original warranty? When the Hitachi/IBM drive > cratered in my old PowerBook 2000 (Pismo), the warranty restarted when > they replaced it! (at least, that's how I understood it). Hasn't > failed again, so I haven't been able to test it. Overall, excellent > warranty support. > > > Yes, the times they are a-changing...
>From Seagate's confirmation email: <paste> Replacement products are factory-repaired units. Replacements carry the greater of: original warranty balance or 90 days. </paste> Still, the original warranty was for 5 years -- most other drives I have purchased have been 1 to 3 years. Kind of thinking I may end up just selling off the replacement, though, given its less-than-sterling pedigree. I'm not convinced that "factory-repaired units" are really rock-solid and reliable. Theresa --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: cwelug@googlegroups.com To subscribe: cwelug-subscr...@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe: cwelug-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
