I would like to know the warranty period of the drives you are selling, are tHey replacement drives,oem drives or straight from Seagate with full 5yr
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OEM drives in my case, possibly European models not for sale in the US. Not covered by manufacturer's warranty - at least, not on the four drives I purchased and received today (and am sending back tomorrow). Strange that Amazon doesn't require sellers to publish warranty info. It's as if they encourage sales of gray market goods.
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Are you sure you read the warranty correctly? Seagate's Warranty FAQ has this to say:"Q. How long is the limited warranty for the replacement drive? "A. The remainder of the original limited warranty or 90 days, whichever is longer."This extends an expiring warranty by 90 days.
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What i got was a brand new drive but i think only with 1 year warranty. It Works perfectly..
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According to the data sheet available on the Seagate web site, the Seagate Cheetah 15k.7 drives carry a five year limited warranty.
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They are likely OEM hard drives pulled from new or newer servers or computers. I bought one and it was an HP OEM WD drive with no warranty at all. I would use some caution buying these drives...
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I am not sure if it is true, but I read (perhaps in another review) that these are OEM drives for PC manufacturers, and hence they are not warrantied to the end user, but instead through the PC manufacturer. If you read other reviews, it is mentioned that they might be pulled from servers and the SMART data wiped. That said, I have ordered 4 of these and haven't had any complaints yet after a few months.
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The drives I got have a Dec, 2009 build date, so if there were actually a 5 year warranty, the warranty would expire Dec, 2014. However, the drives were surplus Dell Enterprise branded products, and my previous experience with WDC is that products that are sold under another brand name are only under warranty to the original purchaser (in this case, Dell). Since I did not purchase the drives from Dell, that would mean that they are sold as is (no warranty).
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warranty comes from seller... I bought two drives, and they were both date coded Oct. 2009. Well out of Manuf warranty. One of my drives was defective, and I didn't bother sending it back.
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I opened mine up after both of them died. They had old used drives from 2007 in them. So it's potluck if you get one you can depend on. I bought these thinking I was getting new stuff. They don't make it easy to crack open to find out the truth. They were Seagate & WD drives from 2007 so are good brands. But being used they could have been abused, or well used. I could have got 2007 drives for almost nothing if that's what I wanted.
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Western Digital offers the 5 Year warranty and is based on the manufacture date and the serial number of the drive. You check check directly with WD on their website for warranty coverage here http://support.wd.com/warranty/index_end.asp?lang=en
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Search Seagate ST2000VN000 Warranty, and it takes you to their web site where it clearly states '3-year limited warranty'
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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.
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Buyer, I can't speak for the other vendors but we list ours as New Bulk / New Pull which is the same thing. We pulled these out of a server that we needed to put 300GB drives into so that is why we list ours this way.. In addition, We also offer a 1 YEAR WARRANTY which most other vendors will not even come close to .. Please let us know and thanks a lot All Computer Parts Customer Service.
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Bought two of these drives, they were both new, shortened warranty period based on dated Mfg. date. These are very high qualityenterprize drives and if they initually work they will last a very long time. Big advantage is they are not advanced format drives. They will work flawlessly with any operating system and run faster than advanced format drives.
201906
The one I bought was brand new and had the 5 year warranty. I have since upgraded to an SSD drive and this is my primary back up that I put in a hard drive enclosure.
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Contact you G-drive directly. All of their hard drives have a three-year warranty. You may need to provide proof of purchase.Check your warranty status here:http://prod.g-technology.com/support/warranty_rma.cfm
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Although I don't own this particular drive, I am here as I am looking to buy this one also to add to my two other Seagate 500gb Freeagents that I already have that have been working flawlessly for me for over 12 months now. I honestly think that your experience was most likely caused by a faulty unit. Without knowing your computer configuration (windows, mac or linux) it's hard to say if any extra steps would need to be taken to set it up, but for a windows or linux based pc it should be simply plug and play in my experience. As you see on this site, there is only one bad review of the product. If you think about how many of these must get sold every year, one bad review is pretty good as almost everybody will take the time to complain, but very few will come back to write a positive review as a working product is what most people expect. So I guess the short answer from me is yes, I would give this drive a second chance, but then again, i may be biased by my great experience. I hope that this is of some help to you..