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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There was a good stretch of 10 years where Seagate had all sorts of failures on their Barracudas due to faulty, unpatchable firmware.
If you want cheap enterprise drives for reliability, look into the WaterPanther Arsenal series.
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Want a more holistic look at reliability? Take a look at BackBlaze's drive stats that they put out every quarter. And while we're talking about BB, those of us Slickdealers looking at buying these drives without having an offsite backup in place may want to first set the latter in motion before pulling the trigger.
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