Seagate offers five-year storage warranty
Seagate offers five-year storage warranty
Seagate has announced that all of its hard drives will now have a five year warranty, which could send a new trend through the industry and encourage more storage companies to also offer longer warranties too.
It previously only offered one-year warranty protection, the same as many other major disk drive makers around the world.
Maxtor recently changed its one-year warranty to a three-year protection agreement, but this recent shift by Seagate will turn the heads of many other companies.
Jeff Loebbaka, Seagate's vice president of Global Marketing said: "Seagate stands proudly behind its hard drives with the industry's best warranty. Success for our channel partners and customers is critical to Seagate's success; the new five year warranty enables our channel partners to sell the best drives to their customers and minimises the cost and time they spend on warranty related issues.
"Seagate channel customers have made it clear that this unprecedented five year warranty protection will improve their ability to be successful.
"One of Seagate's greatest strengths is that we can leverage our operational excellence to bring the newest technology and products to market first, while always ensuring the highest product quality."
Seagate hopes that this move will provide a boost for the company that has recently suffered from net losses for the recent quarter and jobs cuts too.
Earlier in June, the company announced that it was planning to cut its annual operating costs by about US$150 million.
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