Looking at the "new" drives listed here, most say that they are "bulk pulls". What does that mean? Are they really brand new with a 5 year warranty?
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Bulk pulls come from a preconfigured computer or server. Depending on where that computer was destined, the drives may or may not have any warranty. The ones I purchased were listed as no warranty on the WD website, but when I contacted my vendor, they indicated they would handle any concerns during some portion of the time period. It is also worth noting that these drives were discontinued in about 2011-2012, so the longest available warranty you could possibly have is about 3 years.
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In the case of the two drives I just purchased through Amazon but sold/shipped by "New World IT", the drives were manufactured 2-2011 and only have 1 year left on the manufacturer's warranty. Considered returning but since they were so cheap and for the specific purpose I need them for isn't critical, I'm keeping them.
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These are most certainly *NOT* new. They come pre-formatted with a 150MB(ish) partition, and so far, of the 4 2TB drives I've attempted to use, SMART lists at *LEAST* 500 days of usage -- one has nearly 1200 days and has enough bad sectors to choke a chicken. Checking warranty status on them, 2 are 'return to place of purchase' one is 'Unreturnable' and the other has one year left. Thankfully, that's the *BAD* one.
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I bought one of these (sold by AMTECH) and registered it on the WD web site. It shows as "Out of Region" with the warranty expiring 9/15/16 (5 yrs + 1 month after date of manufacture). Officially that means you have to send it to the region it was sold into. However, it appears from reading the support forums on WD's web site, for end users it's possible to get the region changed if you request by opening a support ticket.
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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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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.....
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In the case of Western Digital. If the drive was originally sold to an OEM it is not eligible for warranty. (Many old drives find their way into the market that way.) The start of the warranty period is the date of sale IF it is sold by an AUTHORIZED dealer. Not everyone on Amazon is an authorized dealer. In my experience if it is sold by and shipped by Amazon you are golden.
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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
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The drive has a 5-year warranty and is provided by OCZ Storage Solutions - A Toshiba Group Company. The old OCZ Technology SSD assets were acquired by Toshiba last year and OCZ now operates as a subsidiary of Toshiba - a really good thing in my opinion as they were a small level fabless company before and now have the backing of a major, stable company. If you need help of any kind you can contact the ocz support forum (awesome IMO) or talk to plain tech support here: http://ocz.com/consumer/support
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LaCie online says it is a limited 3 year warranty; I didn't read the details. I have owned at least 9 LaCie drives through the years and never had a problem with one except to outgrow it's capacity!
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Candidly, I think it really doesn't matter what the ratings are. I know it is somewhat the same as the WD Red drives. The key is whether they continue working and last a while. I have had drives by other makers that had 3 year warranties and lasted over 5 years before I retired them (all were still working). Lots of the numbers thrown to the consumer by drive companies have little meaning when it comes to mean fail times as everyone uses drives differently and it also depends on what drives you get and what shape they were in.
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They put old used drives in these. So it's potluck if you get one that actually works, or will last long. When I opened mine up (I bought 2) they both had drives from 2007 in them. I bought these as new at full price. If I wanted a well used 2007 drive I could have got one for almost nothing.
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I ordered a 500 gb hdd but received the SATA III version instead (new). I had planned to return it but decided to keep it and now have it in a RAID configuration with a SATA II version. So for me it wasn't a used drive and therefore I can't tell you history. My understanding is that it is a 5 year warranty unless expressed otherwise. Hope that helps.
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Yep, exactly what it is, a refurbish. These drives normally come with a one year warranty, so 180 days shows a rework. The price should determine if you should take a chance with it. Good luck
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It depends on the vendor. I got this drive thru a 3rd party seller on Amazon. That particular vendor has a 3 year manufacturer warranty and tracks the drive thru the serial number. I would recommend looking carefully at this before purchasing since the hard drive market has gone thru so much consolidation lately and most manufacturers are dropping their multi year warranties on most drives they sell now. It will be hard to get a drive with a full warranty. With the emergence of SDD there are only 3 IDE manufacturers left really. WD, Seagate and Toshiba. They have bought up everyone else. So far Toshiba has been good about drive warranties for most products from what I can tell. WD can be very finicky and seems to only push the longer warranty on their more expensive enterprise drives. Seagate is in between. I guess they figure since they are the only 3 players left that they can avoid warranties and make folks buy new drives more often. Either that or move to SDD.
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I'm not sure how that is true. Warranties run from when the drive is bought - if it is new. A used one would be a different thing.
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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.
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I'm perplexed why you are asking me that question, for I'm not the person who sold it to you??? However way back I purchase two such hard drives for raid (0) they are operating excellent so far. Now to follow up your question when somebody sell you an Item it doesn't mean it has to specify to be warranted for numbers of Years??? If they tell you it is NEW it means never been opened from the original packaging even if the product was sitting on the shelf for a number of years. I hope that I understood your question correctly. As for the warranty I didn't have to recourse. Sincerly
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Send it back, it's defective. They shipped out a lot of defective ones... esp. around December for the holidays when they were on sale. I suspect while they were on sale & they were selling lots of them, they put inferior drives in them to increase their profit margin.
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According to Newegg and other online stores, all sizes have a 3 year warranty (which makes sense since they're competing with WD Red which have a 3 year warranty). I'd call Seagate if you want to know for sure...
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It shows up as two physical drives 0 and 1 at 1 TB ea, further partitioned into 500 GB ea C-D-E-F. Haven't pulled it apart to see if in fact they are separate drives. 100% screaming machine but the drives are probably 75% screaming.