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Originally Posted by FordGT90Concept
This means is the manufacture quality of the drives is declining. That's a greater issue than warranties being shortened. Hard drives used to be meant to last 15-25 years--a death within 5 years was considered infant mortality. Now, drives probably don't even last 15 years so infant mortality is over in three--and now two--years.
Shame on them for going shoddy. At the same time, it might be a consequence of the technologies implemented (like perpendicular recording).
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Yeah, it's really annoying to be going backwards with technological progress, isn't it?
It looks like the reason MM said below could be at least part of the answer. Given the timiing of this announcement though, I can't help feeling that WD are taking advantage of the impact of the flood, somehow.
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Originally Posted by TheMailMan78
Blame the fact the Fed forced them all to use lead free solder. If you wanna sell in the US then you better have ZERO lead in your solder. Made ALL electronics less reliable.
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Oh yeah, don't you get me started on the negative impact that "green" f* policies have on us and the products we buy.
Tell you what, it sounds like you know a bit about this, so if you're up for writing an editorial on it, I think that you'd do a fantastic job on it.
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Originally Posted by newtekie1
I seem to remember WD was the one manufacturer that actually upped their warranties from 3 years to 5 when Seagate and the others dropped theirs down to 3 years standard.
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How times change, huh?
There's probably a TPU news article supporting your post, if we look for it.
