Its an 80gig, 8 meg cache JB thing. Bought it like August last year or something. Whats the crack with getting one replaced >12 months after the purchase?

Worth the effort?

Any places i could just take it and get them to do the work? (Obviously for a price)

You know, I was going to help you, but since you think its your mission in life to troll and ressurect dead threads on forums which you have no real interest in, I won't.

Maybe next time you won't be such an ass.

take it back to shop and they will send it to manufacturer wont they?

Maybe next time you won't be such an ass.

God I hope not.

leave the poor fella alone, his baby just died ....

You know, I was going to help you, but since you think its your mission in life to troll and ressurect dead threads on forums which you have no real interest in, I won't.

Resurrect what thread?

take it back to shop and they will send it to manufacturer wont they?

Also, the shop won't take it back as its over 12 months. Or maybe thats just because hunter got onto all the IT people and told them not to be nice to me.

I noticed before that my pings were a bit higher than usual too. Perhaps hunter got onto iinet as well.

Check the serial number on the WD website and see where it was bought from (which disty) and do an end user return with them.

For the benefit of the forums, hunter is currently attempting to abuse me on icq.

21:37:37 [----] Hunter:
you tell me, you are the expert on flamboyance

You know, I was going to help you, but since you think its your mission in life to troll

hahahahaha the irony

The serial number only tells me when the warranty expires.

10/23/2006

Sif you were ever going to help him Hunter...

Don't HDD's have 3 year waranties?

Should have gone with Seagate.

yes 3 yr manufacturer warranty, 1 yr shop warranty

Don't HDD's have 3 year waranties?

No, they do NOT. A couple of years ago, the vast majority of IDE hard drive manufacturers stopped supplying drives with 3 yr warranties as std. They changed to 1 year, with 3 yr being an optional extra that you pay more for. One reason for doing this was they were losing too much money on warranty replacements...

I own a WD740 Raptor, and it has a 5 year warranty.

I don't give a f*** if he sends it back to be quite honest. If he does end up sending it himself to the manu, he'll no doubt cock it up and send it back packaged incorrectly and hopefully they'll send it back to him at his expense.

Should have gone with Seagate.

I reckon, i have 4 seagates never had one fail, this is the 4th WD of mine to fail. I only bought 2 though. (They each died twice.)

should have gone with maxtor

Its an 80gig, 8 meg cache JB thing. Bought it like August last year or something. Whats the crack with getting one replaced >12 months after the purchase?

and what sc00bs said, i took my 200gb back after a year, got sent to WD and replaced with a new black drive, only took them 2~weeks also (through gamedude)

should have gone with maxtor

except they only give 1yr warrenties i believe - seagate give 5yrs :D

last edited by Jerry at 21:54:20 27/Oct/04

neff, you might have to fill out an online ra form.

this might help http://support.wdc.com/warranty/rmapacking.asp

last edited by Suhaib at 21:54:23 27/Oct/04

yes 3 yr manufacturer warranty, 1 yr shop warranty

That's what I thought...

I'm guessing you'll have to call WD or maybe a distibutor to sort out getting a replacement. Bit of a bitch...

Dunno if i can even be bothered.

Cause even if i do it, i'll just get another WD back. Reckon WD could send me a seagate in exchange or something.

its going to be a pain if the shop u bought it from wont take it and send it back, just your luck tho hey that happened to me a little back, my cpu f***ed up like a few weeks after the 1yr warranty was up... its like they time it to screw up or something

http://support.wdc.com/warranty/policy.asp

All Seagate retail kits (which include a box, hard drive, cables, installation guide, resource CD) have a 1 year limited warranty. For more information on retail product warranty, click here.

The seagate warranties vary depending on the product in question and whether or not it is retail (as is common with most hard drive manufacturers).

Cause even if i do it, i'll just get another WD back. Reckon WD could send me a seagate in exchange or something.

LOL... it would be funny to try... If you do record the conversations for prosperity

LOL... it would be funny to try... If you do record the conversations for prosperity

The word is P-O-S-T-E-R-I-T-Y.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=posterity

Prosperity is something star trek people are obsessed with...

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=prosperity

whats the serial number.....I can check at work tomorrow where its from.

That is IF you really wanna get it replaced. If not.....dont worry....or give it to someone who will :). Shame to waste a good drive....hell I need a spare HDD for my second PC.

Actually hunter the word is pedantic.

STFU

last edited by sikgem at 22:04:35 27/Oct/04

WMAHL3311135

Ta, manshoon.

haha

Also, hunter please stop trolling.

Nobody does it when you start threads.

I love grammar nazis :)

Night nf. Happy 1000th post Hunter

Hunter can you proof read my reports for uni?

Hmm 1000th post. I hadn't noticed. Ta.

SD Gundam, not unless you pay. I'm not a nazi of any sort usually but seeing as you people seem to want to troll in my threads and constantly give me s***, then it is only natural I give you some back too.

You might learn something though

http://trog.qgl.org/up/sikgem.jpg
LOL

first hunter threatens not to help, then he just helps anyway.


I bet he told his Mum that if she wasnt such an ass, hed go out and crash the gemeni for her...

http://members.iinet.net.au/~ineffable/hunterclippy.gif

Eh? A WD drive that's died?? Surprise me. Do yourself a favour and avoid them.

^^ Dumb comment.

Also if you bought it between a certain period last year your HDD will have a 3 year warrnty. All WD's had a 3 year warranty untill the JB's came in and they grabbed the it. After a certain time the BB's only got a 1 year. Check the serial and it will tell you.

Not really. I've had three HDD die: two at work and one at home. All have been WD. With the number of HDD manufacturers around it's fairly simple for me to avoid buying them and to specify anything but WD at work.

give it back to me Nf, I'll do the paperwork for it and stuff :)

it's highly likely I could get it back within 2 weeks, and if the guy from the supplier is nice, he may even do straight replacement like he usually does for my personal RMA enquiries

Crunch, really, no offence but its really silly thing to say... I've had hard drives from virtually every major manufacturer in my PCs over the past 16-17 years and have had probably 3 that I can think of that have failed. I've had Fujitsus, Samsungs, IBMs (not deathstars), Maxtors (early maxtors too!! ew sllooowww!), Quantums, Seagates and finally WDs. Every seagate I have owned has been good. And my Raptor has been fantastic too. Manufacturer fanboyism rarely has any factual basis and annoys the s***e out of me.

You know what, I'd be inclined to buy a Ford just as much as a Holden provided the car I'm buying isn't a piece of s***! Both companies have had the odd turkey over the years (EA falcon anyone?) yet they still make good products.

IBM once made top quality hard drives (well they ought to have at some point seeing as though they bloody developed the things in the first place!), then they had a major f*** up and produced a series of horribly crappy drives. That eventually resulted in them selling their hard drive manufacturing capabilities because they simply could no longer afford it due to the warranty claims and class actions being brought against them.

Fujitsu once made ok drives, then they had a nasty run of 6.4 GB drives (iirc)... I've replaced dozens of Fujitsu drives in dozens of computers in the dozens of business networks that I maintain.

s*** happens and bad designs happen. Writing off an entire manfacturer because of less than a handful of bad products is silly. On the other hand... there are certain companies out there that should not be doing what they do (SiS comes close, I've had some nasty encounters with their chipsets before).

last edited by sikgem at 00:13:23 28/Oct/04

hunter, it's a different story on my side working in a tier 2 IT distributor. MDT is one hdd manufacturer that comes to mind where you wouldn't touch with a 10 foot barge-pole.

samsung drives are also amongst the higher failure rates of the drives we have sold in the past.

it's not fanboyism, it's simply effective product marketing and aftermarket service that makes them

if a drive manufacturer refuses to send replacement drives BEFORE the drive leaves australia, it means longer return times on a drive, and chances are, the australian distributor won't give straight replacements, nor will they replace without thorough testing first, for fear they'll be stuck with a non-faulty etc.

You find a steady pattern with brands on specific models of their drives, with the same problem throughout, all at around the same time. Out of the 3 biggies, there's not much difference on the AMOUNT of RMA's we do respectively. Others, such as fujitsu, or samsung seem to have a bad track record on drives purchased VS drives returned. In saying that, I thing fuji's main strongpoint in hard disk storage is more towards the notebook drives rather than IDE PC drives.

anyhows. my point is, they're allowed to prefer a particular brand if they want. If 5 seagates in a row f***ed up for you, and then you bought a Western Digital, and it ran for 5 years straight, wouldn't you prefer Western Digital because you have more faith in their manufacturing?

Moo, i'll give you a call today. (If i remember.)

Ta.

i've heard seagates die as much as wd's

i went with the quicker drive =)

wd for the win

(still hasn't died after about 18 months, and it's a drive like nfs)

last edited by Einstein at 07:43:45 28/Oct/04

No! Seagates do die but not as much as WDs!

ive had segates fail on me repeatedly

yet my deathstar still runs strong to this day

bizarro world

I've come to the conclusion the WD JB's are s***. I had a 120gb drive die earlier in the year and got another replacement, and now it's playing up already. No more WD drives for me.

Manufacturer fanboyism rarely has any factual basis and annoys the s***e out of me.

Lets not forget our spelling now hunter

Lets not forget our spelling now hunter

OMG... I'm beginning to think you people enjoy being corrected!

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=s***e

So who is doing RA's at Achieva these days Moo?....is it still Elmo?

If Moo can do the RA for ya Nf thats a hell of a lot easier than trying an end user return to Achieva.

True, last time they didn't even acknowledge that i bought the drive from them.

They cant deny this....its on the WD website as sold to Achieva Technology. I got our RA guy to check it out and he gave me the info.

Really is easier to give it to someone who can deal with the disty.....Moo is ya best option.

my old quantum fireball from 7 years ago is still going strong...

My old quantum 4gig bigfoot drive from godknowshowlongago still goes hard. They just dont make them how they used to.

Slow and huge?

sif buy western digital anyway, get a seagate