Actually, news within the last 30 days reports that many hard drive
manufacturers are reducing their warranties to 1 year.  This includes
Western Digital.  Those that haven't announced yet are sure to follow.  IF I
recall the article correctly, the first type to get the lower warranty are
the OEM drives for "white" boxes, i.e. the typical small vender.

Fred Nielson

-----Original Message-----
From: PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of joseph marty
Sent: Sunday, October 06, 2002 6:33 PM
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Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Western Digital vs Samsung HD


For starters, the vendor lied.  WD offers a 3 year warranty on US drives.
The WD would have cost more, so there should be a refund on the Samsung
substitute.  Samsung now makes some good stuff (I love the 955DF .20 color
monitor, but I have no experience with their hard drives.

>My friend ord'd a computer with 80GB of West. Digital HD, but he got 80 GB
>of Samsung.
>The vendor says WD has only one yr warantee whereas Samsung covers for
>three years.
>
>Should he go for WD as originally ord'd or there is not much of a
>difference ; all HDD's are more less OK
>Plz advise
>
>
>

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