Western Digital and Seagate have both announced that they will be reducing the warranty period on certain models of hard drives.

Seagate

Seagate’s terms change from 31 December 2011 and the announcement made on 6 December 2011 reads:

“Effective December 31, 2011, Seagate will be changing its warranty policy from a 5 year to a 3 year warranty period for Nearline drives, to 1 year for certain Desktop and Notebook Bare Drives 5 years to 3 years on Barracuda XT and Momentus XT, and from as much as 5 years to 2 years on Consumer Electronics.”

New Seagate Warranty Terms:

Western Digital

Western Digital will have new warranty terms for all hard drives shipped from 2 January 2012.

New Western Digital Warranty Terms:

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