Followed by footsteps Seagate part hard drive product warranty reduced to 1 year

For the previous Western Digital to reduce the warranty period of some of its hard drive products, GPU-Z's developer TechPowerUp website worried that Seagate will continue to follow the pace of Western Digital also reduce the warranty period. Facts have proved that this concern is not just talk about it. The British website The Register, which was unveiled last time, once again released news that Seagate will start adjusting its product warranty period in 2012. The adjusted warranty time is as follows:

— Constellation 2 and ES. 2 Enterprise Hard Drives: 3 years - channel distribution ie bulk Barracuda (7200rpm) and Barracuda Green 3.5 inch desktop hard drives: 1 year - desktop flagship 3.5 inch Barracuda XT: 3 years - 2.5 inch notebook hard drive Momentus (5400/7200rpm): 1 Year - 2.5 inch notebook hard disk flagship Momentus XT: 3 years - SV35 series digital video surveillance disk: 2 years - Pipeline HD/HD mini video application hard disk: 2 years In addition to the original boxed product unchanged, allegedly change the object for bulk And agents boxed products. This new rule applies to products with shipping dates from 12.31 onwards.

According to reports, Seagate's adjustment of warranty periods other than consumer electronics and enterprise-level products is meant to "follow" industry standards, allowing it to continue to focus on investing in research and development of new technologies. In other words, the money spent on quality assurance is transferred to product development. Perhaps Seagate will also launch the service of extending the product warranty period like Western Digital.

Who is next, Hitachi? Samsung? Toshiba?