{"id":3284,"date":"2010-08-23T21:17:28","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T04:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/?p=3284"},"modified":"2010-08-23T17:27:30","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T00:27:30","slug":"hard-drive-5-year-warranty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/23\/hard-drive-5-year-warranty\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard Drive 5-Year Warranty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seagate.com\/pics\/retail\/shared\/logo.png\" alt=\"Seagate logo\" width=\"136\" height=\"79\" \/> So as I mentioned one of my hdds failed in my RAID5 array.  I&#8217;ve got to say the quality of this batch of Seagate hdds (Barracuda 7200.7 160GB) were pretty flaky. One died early on in the process (had it RMAed) and the remaining 2 that are still working pass the scan test really slowly.<\/p>\n<p>I decided it&#8217;d be fun to see if this hdd was still under warranty. When I couldn&#8217;t lookup the warranty status via Seagate&#8217;s website, I shot them an email. Their reply:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Unfortunately, it looks like your drive is outside the warranty period.<\/p>\n<p>Serial 4MT0****<br \/>\nModel Number\tST3160827AS-RK<br \/>\nPart Number\t9W2984-557<br \/>\nWarranty Status\tOut of Warranty<br \/>\n<strong>Warranty End Date\t06\/10\/2010<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I swear they time these things. ;p<\/p>\n<p>Then again, do I really have a need for another spare 160GB hdd?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So as I mentioned one of my hdds failed in my RAID5 array. I&#8217;ve got to say the quality of this batch of Seagate hdds (Barracuda 7200.7 160GB) were pretty flaky. One died early on in the process (had it RMAed) and the remaining 2 that are still working pass the scan test really slowly. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/23\/hard-drive-5-year-warranty\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hard Drive 5-Year Warranty&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[1318,612],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}