Is this a black caviar drive that has the 5 year warranty
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You have to specifically check it. Third party resellers often sell OEM non-warranty drives but don't disclose this. Check here when you receive it to avoid a nasty surprise, and return it if it's not in warranty. http://wdsupport.wdc.com/warranty/warrantycheck.asp?custtype=end
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Does it really matter if it has a 5-year warranty? Will you be able to retrieve your data / photos / videos if it goes bad, scrape-scrape? Does the warranty include data retrieval? And if that data is sensitive, protected data, what happens when someone else gets it? Do you really want anyone else to have your account numbers, IDs and passwords?
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Go here to read from WD's site.http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/library/SpecSheet/ENG/2879-771434.pdf
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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.
1682595
Athough the Caviar Black has a SATA III interface, my understanding is that SATA III is bacward compatible with SATA II. And I think SATA III is overkill for mechanical disk drives.
438117
I installed this drive in my son's Dell laptop. I believe it was a Toshiba with a 3 year warrantee.
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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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Hi it's a bit confusing, and hard to figure out who you are ordering from on these drives. Did not buy mine from Oceanside. Might want to look at similar drives from Fry's. They have the full warranty.
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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
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it's a grey label drive, it's a seller warranty not the manufacturer warranty.
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I found that the drives are several years old. I bought a bunch of them (10+) it was a mistake. I tried to get warranty from WD and they did not honor the 5 year warranty and in fact when I returned the drive, they claimed it wasn't manufactured by them. I ended up returning the drive to the seller for a replacement. Don't count on the 5 year warranty, better yet buy it from another manufacturer. I've had too many failures of WD drives in the last year or two. I have switched to Seagate.
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They never show the back cover of the drive in the photos - no wonder there is so much confusion. Open the drive and the warranty is void. They shipped SEALED from the atmosphere, be sure of that.
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Honestly I don't think I ever paid attention... but I would assume it came with standard 2 year warranty. In any case, these hard drives don't tend to fail months after purchased, either they're DOA (dead on arrival) / die in the first few hours of use because they're defective, or they last for years. My last Seagate external HDD lasted me for TEN years, hence why I bought this one. I wouldn't worry about it too much, Seagate has pretty decent customer support.
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Newegg says 3 years parts/labor. After searching for an hour I couldn't find this on Seagate's website. You'd think they'd be bragging about it on billboards since practically everyone else is down to 1 year (and wouldn't surprise me if they all got rid of a warranty altogether and made people buy at their own wallet's peril).
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I am not sure since I purchased a 2 yr warranty when I bought my Seagate which is so dependable.If you have anyproblem with a Seagate and also have a year subscription to Carbonite, their customer care with solve any problem you have with the external hard drive which the Carbonite service requires. MDR
889571
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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The Western Digital website no longer refers to Caviar Black. The hard drives are branded Blue, Green, Black, Red and Purple. The Black is the only one with a five year warranty. It looks like they dropped the "Caviar" branding. I have purchased the Caviar Black in the past. My last purchase was for the Black. I certainly didn't notice a difference. Seems the same to me. I've had no issues with the 1TB version.
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Assuming a condition of new, you would have the full benefit of a 5 year warranty. Be warned that some sellers (Finity India) are selling surplus Dell-badged drives as new, when they carry no manufacturer warranty at all.
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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.....