Pass the Western Digital part of the hard disk warranty period to 2 years will push charges extended warranty service

According to the British website The Register, Western Digital recently explained to the channel partners in the document, will be part of its hard drive product warranty period reduced to 2 years, including Caviar Blue, Caviar Green and Scorpio Blue, or "caviar" Desktop 3.5-inch green plate, blue plate series and "Scorpio" notebook 2.5-inch blue plate series. The Caviar Black, Scorpio Black and other desktop/notebook black disks, surveillance disks and external mobile hard disk products are not affected by this adjustment.

There is a transitional period for the reduction of warranty time. According to the source, according to the serial number of the product (available on Western Digital's support website at wdc.com), the shipment will be shipped after January 2, 2012 (including the day). The product warranty period is reduced to 2 years, January 1st, 2012, and the products shipped before the shipment are still 3 years warranty. This seems like a hassle for retailers.

However, for less and lesser warranty time, Western Digital has other methods - like the brand PC manufacturers to launch a fee extension warranty service, based on the documents provided by the source, in the near future the company will launch a fee extension service.

At present, Western Digital has not issued an official response to this rumor. In fact, Seagate has already made similar changes before. As for users who vote with wallets, is the attractiveness of SSDs even greater?