Who is providing the 5 yr warranty?? wd's website says NO they are HP rebranded drives. HP's warranty lookup returns error.
1653108
the drive i bought was sold by amazon and was in a sealed package. the first thing i did before opening it was to verify the serial # with wd's website. this has happened to me once before, i sent it back & got reimbursed, but had to pay shipping. always make shure it is OEM product so you get the warranty.
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First: do not open the drive until you check the warranty with WD. If the drive was made for HP or Dell good luck. Since my drive was still sealed I was able to send it back to the seller and they paid shipping. If I had to buy another drive I will go to Newegg.com.
1653110
Not sure about this. Sorry. I hope you find the answer you are looking for. Good Luck.
482504
That may be true, but I've noticed that Seagate gives you a five-year warranty while Western Digital gives you only one. As long as you don't keep your ONLY copy of something important on the drive, I would go with the Seagate knowing that you'll have at least five years of replacements in case it fails.
2093694
3 yr Limited, but I've received an RMA on WD drives before that fell outside the "Limited" restrictions.Hope this helps.
847396
WD's website is the correct one @ 5 yrs. I purchased two caviar black 1TB drives a little over a week ago, and the warranty check on WD's website shows both are valid until 12/24/2014
272541
Oh Ya...Price I paid $53 ea, shorter warranty...well your call if it's worth it or not! No WD warranty
171422
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.
2167861
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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Not an answer, but a followup... I bought one of these last week on 26 September 2014 - the description clearly states 5 year warranty. The invoice from goHardDrive.com stated 1 year. When I put my serial number into the warranty checker at hgst.com it said: "NOT VALID FOR WARRANTY Verify warranty status &gt; Ineligible for RMA creation Please return drive to the point of purchase or system manufacturer." So it's apparently an OEM drive, not a retail drive. So far goHardDrive.com haven't replied to my eMail to them. And an hour later they just have responded, with a revised invoice that states on it "5 years Warranty" with my drive's serial number noted. So I guess it's not an HGST warranty, but I'm happy now.
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Looks like they are using Hitachi. One of my enclosures stopped working so I opened up the case to remove the drive and installed in my computer as an additional internal drive. The drive itself is still working perfectly fine some 4+ years later.
1576264
A new WD2500JB hard drive from an authorized distributor such as Amazon and NewEgg for WD should have a 3 year warranty. Please see here for the fine detail: http://support.wdc.com/warranty/policy.asp
1268994
I don't know, but I am no longer buying any more WD hard drives. All the ones that have crashed and burned are, guess who? I have other brands that have lasted 8 years. Even the so called white lables that are generic from WD crashed within one year. No more WD.
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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
1293158
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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Caviar Black drives have a 5 year warranty. BUT, when I registered my drive with WD the website reported that my drive had 3 years till expiration. I wrote to them in the comments and will see what comes of it. Save your receipts is all I have to say at this point.
77570
Yes. I have purchased WD products for years and they have all had warranty from Western Digital. You have to be sure and register your product with WD.
98249
Is it being sold as new? This might be a refurbished drive. In any event, WD's website can provide warranty info and drive status.
1456422
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