Re: [tlug] Seagate Sudden Death....

["Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon" <ronfaxon@example.com>]

Scott Robbins wrote:

>On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 06:14:02PM +0900, Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon wrote:
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>>In answer to the warrantee question - increadibly, the bloody thing died
>>10 days out of warrantee.  Does Seagate put timers in the bloody things?
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>Often if you call them, and can reach a human being, they'll do
>something for you in a case like that.  The difficulty is, for example,
>reaching a human being at Seagate.  (Though sometimes email works.)
>
>I called them and said, c'mon, 3 days?  They gave me the $20.00 upgrade,
>though I had to wait a month for the CD.
>
>It depends upon the company, of course, but it's worth trying.
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>

Oops....  I should have tried that before breaking the thing into 
pieces!  I don't suppose they'd offer me anything for a pile of 
parts....  But what do you think of the mechanical design of the thing?  
(See:

http://www5d.biglobe.ne.jp/~LLLtrs/PDF/PDF_History/PH_01/SeagateHDD.html )

Lyle