On 18 Jan 2012, at 15:40, Daniela Bauer wrote:
>>> If out of 3 year then of course the HDD manufacturers typically will
>>> handle replacements for enterprise quality drives - the main thing that
>>> makes them worth paying for.
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>> I didn't know this! Thanks for telling stuff I should have already known!
>
> Maybe. Seagate insisted that they would only take our "out of 3 year
> warranty, but in 5 year warranty" harddrives back through Viglen who
> we bought the kit originally from.
That can indeed be a problem. Nonetheless, better that buying new HDDs if you can make it work reasonably smoothly.
Ian
> Viglen was none too pleased and it
> required some wrangling to get this through. It didn't help that
> Seagate at some point declared some of our drives 'lost at sea'
> (flooding in Thailand) and we are still waiting for the refund.
>
> Worth a try though.
>
> Daniela
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