expired Posted by Phantomchess • May 10, 2022
May 10, 2022 12:14 AM
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expired Posted by Phantomchess • May 10, 2022
May 10, 2022 12:14 AM
18TB WD Elements USB 3.0 Hard Drive (Black)
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Edit: I got curious so I poked the current WD warranty and it's the same: "No limited warranty is provided by WD unless your WD Product ("Product") was purchased from an authorized distributor or authorized reseller. Distributors may sell Products to resellers who then sell Products to end users. Please see below for warranty information or obtaining service. No warranty service is provided unless the Product is returned to an authorized return center in the region (warranty regions are identified as Canada, U.S.A., Latin America, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific, India and Thailand) where the Product was first shipped by WD, which may have regional specific warranty implications." from https://support-en.wd.com/app/Warranty_Policy As such, I *strongly* suggest skipping imported drives unless you either don't care about drive warranties (I've not had a drive fail in the last decade) or are ok paying to ship the drive to the EU for service (and possibly return service surcharge) which will cost more than the current $61 savings vs buying from bestbuy... buyer beware and all that crap.
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Edit: I got curious so I poked the current WD warranty and it's the same: "No limited warranty is provided by WD unless your WD Product ("Product") was purchased from an authorized distributor or authorized reseller. Distributors may sell Products to resellers who then sell Products to end users. Please see below for warranty information or obtaining service. No warranty service is provided unless the Product is returned to an authorized return center in the region (warranty regions are identified as Canada, U.S.A., Latin America, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific, India and Thailand) where the Product was first shipped by WD, which may have regional specific warranty implications." from https://support-en.wd.com/app/Warranty_Policy As such, I *strongly* suggest skipping imported drives unless you either don't care about drive warranties (I've not had a drive fail in the last decade) or are ok paying to ship the drive to the EU for service (and possibly return service surcharge) which will cost more than the current $61 savings vs buying from bestbuy... buyer beware and all that crap.
Edit: I got curious so I poked the current WD warranty and it's the same: "No limited warranty is provided by WD unless your WD Product ("Product") was purchased from an authorized distributor or authorized reseller. Distributors may sell Products to resellers who then sell Products to end users. Please see below for warranty information or obtaining service. No warranty service is provided unless the Product is returned to an authorized return center in the region (warranty regions are identified as Canada, U.S.A., Latin America, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific, India and Thailand) where the Product was first shipped by WD, which may have regional specific warranty implications." from https://support-en.wd.com/app/Warranty_Policy As such, I *strongly* suggest skipping imported drives unless you either don't care about drive warranties (I've not had a drive fail in the last decade) or are ok paying to ship the drive to the EU for service (and possibly return service surcharge) which will cost more than the current $61 savings vs buying from bestbuy... buyer beware and all that crap.
PSA. WD DO NOT HONOR WARRANTY.
On bbb.org, where companies can PAY money to buy their reputation, WD still manages to get a F
https://www.bbb.org/us/ca/fremont...116-882225
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Anyone know what the difference is between buying here vs. buying same drive on WD.com (bought that one for $280 a few months ago I think)
PSA. WD DO NOT HONOR WARRANTY.
On bbb.org, where companies can PAY money to buy their reputation, WD still manages to get a F
https://www.bbb.org/us/ca/fremont...116-882225 [bbb.org]
https://www.bbb.org/us/ky/louisvi...-159153898
PS: this was meant to sound as ridiculous as the person I quoted.
WD do NOT have warranty at all, regardless of where you buy it and if you didn't shuck it.
PSA. WD DO NOT HONOR WARRANTY.
On bbb.org, where companies can PAY money to buy their reputation, WD still manages to get a F
https://www.bbb.org/us/ca/fremont...116-882225
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I'm sure people have had warranty issues with WD but I've never ever had an issue with the 100s of RMAs I've done with them. Quite honestly the only issue I've ever had on a HDD RMA was with Toshiba and they eventually relented anyways.
Had a small 120GB drive for the past 12+ years, dragging it around a lot, still going strong.
OTOH, Seagate Barracuda drive died w/in several weeks.
Only had one WD internal Red SATA that was DOA and amazon / WD exchanged it w/out issues. Installed close to 50 WDs in various machine over the years and have multiple large externals (12-18TB).
Edit:. And I'm not at all a master at backing up data. I too have suffered HD failures three times. But once I lost data the first time, I learned really quick to have backups on hand.
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Edit:. And I'm not at all a master at backing up data. I too have suffered HD failures three times. But once I lost data the first time, I learned really quick to have backups on hand.
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