EXPIRED - Samsung F1 HD103UJ 1TB Hard Drive - £93.39 Delivered @ ebuyer

LongDongDave

Got to be HOT, these hard drives are dropping in price every week

Andrewolu

It says £96.28

ramtec

LongDongDave:
Got to be HOT, these hard drives are dropping in price every week

or rising as it's gone up!

jcooper

Would personally pay more for a WD Greenpower drive, but for "normal" desktop PC people, this is a HOT HOT deal!

coalfield

well that was short lived

peodude

Andrewolu:
It says £96.28

It went down on Scan the other day to that price on a Today Only, ebuyer followed, now the promotion has ended on Scan so ebuyer have also put the same price

dark_ixion

Be warned, these are OEM disks, not retail, which means they aren't covered by a 3 or 5 year warranty you would normally get. That's why they are cheaper.

sasha1

What's the warranty on the OEMs? One year?

I got massively burnt by the old Deathstar/Deskstar harddrives: never thought warranty was worth much until those drives started eating my data.

dark_ixion

It looks like it might only be 1 year. This article is for Seagate drives but is probably the same case for Samsung: http://www.channelregister.co.uk/200...e_hard_drives/

bad*ger · *Last edited by bad*ger : 13-05-2008 at 14:59.*

dark_ixion:
Be warned, these are OEM disks, not retail, which means they aren't covered by a 3 or 5 year warranty you would normally get. That's why they are cheaper.

The Scan website states the warranty on this product as : "Duration: 36 months" & state on the product description page,

"Remember ALL our Hard Drive brands we sell are official 3 or 5 year Maximum Warranty Product. Peace of Mind!
Many of our competitors sell Grey/imported or system integrator product with only 1 year warranty! to achieve a cheap price."

As Ebuyer just state "OEM" i dont know what warranty they offer so it seems if Scan have them at the same price or cheaper they are a safe bet to go with... I know i will be when i get paid so long as toh doesnt spend my cash first lol!

thesilverfox

I've had many drives that arrive OEM, but have more than a year of warranty. The last drive I purchased was an OEM Samsung 500GB with 3 years (back in July 07). Have they started reducing warranties now?!

jonathan_d

oem usually means that it comes without any retail packaging, manuals, screws, cables, etc
the warranty should still be the same

kamtheman

i still think they are tumbling in price due to the nightmare people have when trying to format them. see my post on another expired thread.

I had 2, sent them both back. The replacement seagate formatted first time.

known issue with them and i posted on the scan forums, plus I've noticed there are hardly any feedbacks on both ebuyer and scan websites! suspicous for such a cheap drive!?

Houldey

dark_ixion:
Be warned, these are OEM disks, not retail, which means they aren't covered by a 3 or 5 year warranty you would normally get. That's why they are cheaper.

Are tyou sure? I bought a Maxtor OEM about 18months ago. 3 months ago it broke. I found out that Seagate (took over Maxtor) offer a 3-year warranty on it. Maybe Samsung are less generous though. I don't see why including wasted cardboard packaging increases the warranty period. So gay.

EXPIRED - Samsung F1 HD103UJ 1TB Hard Drive - £93.39 Delivered @ ebuyer

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