Seagate 3TB 3.5 inch 7200RPM 64MB Cache SATA3 Hard Drive £109.98 @ Amazon
Even cheaper now, best price atm for a 3tb.
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Jump to unread Post a CommentTake Sony T.V's for example. They have given away 5 year warranties in the past which is a clever move. The expected life cycle of a T.V is 5 years so they just give you your legal right from the off and use it as clever customer relations..... but at least it shows they will stand by their product.
Hard drive warranties are something I don't necessarily call upon anyway. Unless the drive fails in such a way as I can still wipe my data off it, I wouldn't want to send it back. The 12 month warranty on this drive at least guarantees it is completely fault free on arrival.
Edited By: iscom on Aug 20, 2012 17:56: typing Error
It matters because 3 is more than 1. Ask marketing, bigger numbers are better! :p
The only real difference it makes is the burst rate reading from the hard disk buffer. Which no one will really notice anyway.
SATA 1 has uncoded transfer rate of 1.2 Gbit/s (150 MB/s). This drive has peak transfer rates of over 225MB/sec and averages 175MB/sec. The minimum transfer rate rarely dips below 150 MB/s. It *easily* saturates SATA 1. It has burst transfer rates (eg. where data is called from cache) of 384 MB/s, where even SATA 2 would be a bottleneck. SATA 3 is definitely a benefit. These are actual transfer rates I achieved with benchmarking, not theoretical values.
Besides that, I think it might have a problem but I can't quite tell, it does seem to produce a squeak once in a while which doesn't sound right to me, like once in half an hour, but that might just be the size of drive and new tech? Anyone else know?
Besides that, I think it might have a problem but I can't quite tell, it does seem to produce a squeak once in a while which doesn't sound right to me, like once in half an hour, but that might just be the size of drive and new tech? Anyone else know?
I paid £112.99 for my drive just a few days ago, but won't be losing any sleep over the difference of £3.01!
The chirping noise is the drive heads parking. It's a bit over-zealous at parking the heads actually. Might be worth a look to see if there's a firmware update. I've haven't gotten around to checking yet.
Mine came in the standard large Amazon cardboard packaging. I half expected the drive to be floating around inside that, but thankfully it was inside another cardboard box and wrapped in bubble wrap, so reasonably well packaged. Seems they have listened to complaints.
This is quoted on this site again and again, but it's not quite true. What the EU directive gives you is a period of 2 years in which to claim against a retailer for defects that are inherent at the time of delivery.
The directive in question is 1999/44/EC and it states (from paragraph 17):
"Whereas it is appropriate to limit in time the period during which the seller is liable for any lack of conformity which exists at the time of delivery of the goods; whereas Member States may also provide for a limitation on the period during which consumers can exercise their rights, provided such a period does not expire within two years from the time of delivery;"
In the UK, the Sale of Goods Act already gives you a 6 year period within which to claim, so the EU directive is giving you nothing extra. Neither of these things are the same as a 12 month warranty where you can simply return the goods for a no-quibble refund or replacement. If you want to claim after 12 months, you are almost certainly going to have to take the retailer to the small claims court and prove that the goods have failed due to some inherent fault that was present at the time of delivery and that the goods were not "as described, fit for purpose and of satisfactory quality".
Additionally, the directive states that for six months after the purchase, it is up to the retailer to show that a fault on an item is down to the actions or misuse of the buyer, rather than an inherent fault in the product. So within this time frame (or the 12 month standard warranty that most retailers offer), you can expect to receive a refund or replacement. Unless there is obvious damage to the goods, the retailer is going to have a hard time proving the consumer caused the fault through misuse.
After six months however, the burden of proof switches to the buyer and it is they who must then show a fault is due to some inherent problem. "Inherent problem" being some defect that was there at the time of delivery and has caused the product to fail prematurely. This is very difficult to prove, and who in their right mind is going to go to any of this bother for a £110 hard drive?