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It depends on the warranty period of the drive. Your hard drive manufacturer knows precisely how long the drive will last and sets their warranty period to expi
by maratd 13y ago
It depends on the warranty period of the drive. Your hard drive manufacturer knows precisely how long the drive will last and sets their warranty period to expire right before your drive gives up the ghost.
- gambiting 13y agoYeah, if that was true that would be completely against EU regulations,so you could sue manufacturers and win millions. So if you have any proof that they are doing that, you are practically a millionaire, I don't know why are you not on your way to the court yet.
- maratd 13y agoYou realize drives are made for specific markets, branded for specific markets, and warranty periods are specified on a per market basis? Not everyone lives in the EU. In fact, the majority of people don't. Outside your regulation happy haven, warranty periods aren't random and do indicate durability under normal use.
- driverdan 13y agoHow so? That is how warrantees work. They're designed to protect you against premature failure. Unless it's a necessary competitive advantage no company is going to warrantee something past its expected lifetime. And in that case it's going to be included in the price.
- gambiting 13y agoDesigning a device to fail after a pre-determined amount is very much against the law. Expected lifetime is different, but this is not what the previous poster was suggesting.
- deathcakes 13y agoThe manufacturer has some good information about the statistical likelihood of your drive failing within a certain time period and tunes the warranty accordingly. They do not know exactly when your specific drive will fail as this would require some form of time travel.
- cenhyperion 13y ago> Your hard drive manufacturer knows precisely how long the drive will last Care to back that up with any real data instead of baseless consumer speculation relying on time travel?
- fletchowns 13y agoThey don't know exactly, but they have a very good idea. It's all based on statistics.
- cenhyperion 13y agoAnd a statistical average is very different than exactly when your specific drive will fail.