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just brew it! wrote:Completely off-topic: When I saw your subject line, my brain initially interpreted it as "returns to their roots" rather than "RMAs". So what popped into my head was this. Yes, they were actually a CPU vendor back in the day... even produced a PDP-11 clone for an outfit called Alpha Micro. Guess I'm showing my age...
The Swamp wrote:If that's true, that means it's going to be sent to a system manufacturer as a, gulp, new drive. I didn't know that was permissible.
I'm sure I'll get a refurb drive that suffered the same fate as mine did. As long as it works...
MadManOriginal wrote:The Swamp wrote:If that's true, that means it's going to be sent to a system manufacturer as a, gulp, new drive. I didn't know that was permissible.
I'm sure I'll get a refurb drive that suffered the same fate as mine did. As long as it works...
Why does it mean that?
The Swamp wrote:I've had two drives fail in the last year, and one that is threatening to go. It seems 10 years ago it was fairly odd to have a hard drive fail. Now it seems you have to carry data on multiple drives and arrays just to make sure when a drive fails, you don't lose all of the data. Sure, it's always been that way to a degree, but now the quality of hard drives has become so shoddy, you have to plan on losing at least one or more drives once a year, or more. Despite advances in tech, the failure rate just keeps going up.
The Swamp wrote:I was waiting for an email notice from WD indicating they had shipped my replacement drive, but I never got one. I checked the RMA status screen and saw a UPS tracking number. I had assumed it was the number from when I sent the faulty drive to them, but I copied it anyway and went to the UPS tracking site. The site told me they delivered a package to me and left it at my back door... 2 days ago. Huh? I went out on the back porch, and sure enough, there was a box from UPS there with my new drive in it. Lol, I'm glad I checked, or the box may have been out there another week! So WD made good. Sweet!