Does anyone know if the manufacturer's warranty is still good for drives purchased through amazon warehouse deals?
1167735
If it is new and not refurbished the warranty should be good. When in doubt email Western Digital and verify...
1167736
If it is new and not refurbished the warranty should be good.When in doubt email Western Digital and verify...
1167737
I purchased my 3TB red NAS drive on sale too. Mine is working great; however, it was new. I'm not sure if you are referring to a refurbished or new drive but it is a 5 year warranty. Hope that helps.
2182825
I have purchased many Western Digital drives from Amazon over the years. Until my most recent order, all were eligible for Western Digital's 5 year warranty. When I attempted to register the last drives I purchased, the Western Digital website indicated that the "Products were not eligible for Registration". This generally means that the drives are being sold outside of the region where it was originally shipped. I am returning these drives to Amazon. The warranty is really important because WD will replace any drive that fails within the warranty period. I've had it happen & WD handles it quickly and painlessly. In my opinion, enterprise drives without a manufacturer's warranty should not be put into service. 8/29/2013 Update: Amazon shipped my order for multiple drives from different fulfillment centers (presumably they didn't have sufficient quantity on hand from their primary shipping location). The drives that came from Lexington were not eligible for warranty. Those that arrived a day later from North Las Vegas were able to be registered for warranty coverage. The labeling on the WDC boxes was slightly different, so I conclude that the Lexington drives were `gray market'. I hope this is a onetime aberration, but for the foreseeable future, I'll by my enterprise drives elsewhere.
1256616
It was my experience that Newegg used inferior packaging when delivering my drives. I had a horrendous time with them, had to return 3 drives that were shock damaged during shipping. I had no such problems with drives purchased form Amazon. Just my two cents, but it does make cents.
1412385
I have purchased several of these drives and they are new in factory packaging. if you do have a problem amazon and wd support are very good. they run at 100 to 110 mps speed and are very quiet.
1888295
The warranty period starts at the date of manufacture of the drives. I believe these drives were discontinued in about 2011-12, so while they potentially came with a 5 year warranty, several years have already been used. If you can get the vendor to send you the serial number you can check online. Finally, if they were destined for a non-US market they will carry no warranty from WD
1372791
I could be wrong, but it doesn't appear so. Check out this discussion: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-1631920/party-hard-drives-server-warranties.html
2182822
I bought 2 drives from Platinum Micro and they did not have the warranty after checking on the WD site. However, that did not stop Platinum Micro from claiming they did carry the 5yr warranty in their specific listing. Just be careful and plan on returning the drives. I ended up paying a little more and purchasing from Newegg to ensure a quality product was delivered.
2103214
The reseller kit comes with connector cables for the drive. Not too sure about the warranty. Great drive though. It hasn't given me any problems at all!
971376
Most of the manufacturers have done away with the 5 year warranties on the majority of their drives. This one only comes with a 1 year warranty. Some of the better quality, heavier duty drives come with a 3 year warranty, but you typically pay a lot more for those drives. Check newegg. They may have one with a better warranty in your price range.
803031
NOT from this seller - I checked both serial numbers on Seagates Warranty Validation page and see "The product you identified was sold as a system component. Please contact your place of purchase for service."I have a failed drive, and no response from the seller - can't send it back to Seagate.. uh oh.
513138
I would use nothing BUT these drives in anything I built or upgraded. They're a bit pricier, and no one ever thinks about it, but the warranty on THESE hard drives, the WD Black series, is a full 5Y. VERY few other mfrs even offer a 5y warranty. And WD drives earn that warranty reputation, I haven't had a WD drive fail, EVER. In each case -- over a dozen -- they've become useless through increasing capacity, never mechanical/electronic failure. That is, I probably have an 80gig WD drive that's still functioning. It's just not worth plugging in and taking up a SATA channel when I can get that capacity on a freaking flash drive nowadays... Yes, they're that good. You can "save money" by buying something cheaper. But you'll pay in the long run with headaches from lost data, or time spent rebuilding your windows/software/os and tweaking it back to the way you had it. The HD is the soul of your machine. Everything else fails, you can practically swap a part back in and you're up and running. But the HD fails and you've got a multiday to longer term headache to get things back to "normal". And, for general purposes, they're among the best drives in performance terms, too. Tom's Hardware may rate something else marginally faster, but not by much. And not by enough to drag you away from WD Black. As the old saw goes, once you go Black, you'll never go back. :-D
349983
Like I have said before, these drives are not of recent manufacture... but they may very well have remained unused for several years....The one I received was made around 2009, but it worked fine.... The warranty you have is only the possibility of returning it if you notice it doesnt work.....
1196314
Yes, It's covered by the 3 year warranty. The reference link at WD is: http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=810I have both Red and Black drives. The Black drives have a 5 year warranty.
1372792
I could be wrong, but it doesn't appear so. Check out this discussion:http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-1631920/party-hard-drives-server-warranties.html
736333
Frequently, larger companies who resell them will spend the time and money to certify the drives and extend the drive warranty as part of their package. If you think about the reverse case, this is why you can't take a drive off the street and throw it into your enterprise storage array and expect the array manufacturer to support it as a "certified" configuration. In the past two years, I've purchased a half dozen HGST/Hitachi drives. One DOA, and the others all going strong.
1641219
Only if you buy a used one that was previously registered with the manufacturer. As long as you have a purchase receipt for the drive as a new drive, the warranty period begins from the date on the receipt. It's only when you don't have a receipt that the manufacturer uses the serial number to determine the manufacture date...and then uses that as the start of the warranty period.
326667
I ordered from Amazon directly - no third party. The bad inner box was due to Seagate. The bad outer box was due to Amazon.