Originally Posted by mayonaise
lets hope so. maxtors have given me lots of problems in the past, one of which i'm currently dealing with on my cousin's computer. seagates have been really good, and they have five-year warranties.
read the fine print on seagate's warranty. it's based on a sliding scale.
Originally Posted by mayonaise
key word:
had lifetime warranties. maxtor used to be pretty good, but they stopped the lifetime warranties around the time that their drives started sucking. a lot of companies did that, really. now, unless you get a retail SCSI hard drive, or can get certain models OEM (eg, not-retail), you get a one year warranty.
http://www.maxtor.com/portal/site/Ma...ducts_warranty
seagate's external drives dont have 5 year warranties either. however their retail internal drives do. know the facts.