Western Digital – Effective date on January 2nd, 2012
Desktop and Mobile drives (Blue and Green family lines) change from 3 years to 2 years. Black product line will remain at 5 years warranty. Enterprise class products stay at 5 years warranty.
Product Line Limited Warranty Period
(as of January 02, 2012)
Desktop & Mobile – WD Blue and WD Green 2 years
Seagate – Effective date on December 31, 2011
Major Desktop and Mobile products change from 2 years to 1 years and 5 years to 3 years. Most of the Enterprise class product will be reduced warranty period from 5 years to 3 years.
| Product Line | Limited Warranty Period
(as of December 31, 2011) |
| Constellation®.2 and Constellation® ES.2 | 3 years |
| Barracuda® and Barracuda® Green 3.5” Drives | 1 year |
| Barracuda® XT | 3 years |
| Momentus® 2.5” Drives (5400 RPM & 7200 RPM) | 1 year |
| Momentus® XT | 3 years |
| SV35 Series™ – Video Surveillance | 2 years |
| Pipeline HD® Mini, Pipeline HD® | 2 years |
1 Comment
yme · January 7, 2012 at 10:15 am
Seagate’s new warranty policies are more complex than the table above suggests. Their Dec. 6th, 2011 announcement about cutting back warranties related to products sold as bare drives (OEM) only. It stated that Seagate’s retail products, e.g. drives sold in boxed kits, and mission critical (e.g. certain enterprise class drives) would not be affected by the new warranty policy.