Reburbished drive is BETTER than the NEW ONE?? wtf
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Posted by Crackles McFarly on July 26, 2007, 4:31 pm
Please log in for more thread options that horrible CHIRP and other noises. I had it replaced, seagate sent me a 'refurbished' drive from SNIGAPORE and it works VERY WELL. Even benchmarks are 5%-10% BETTER!!??? Seems odd that a REFURBISHED drive would work so much better than a new one. I think it's the fact that mine is now from SINGAPORE and not China. I heard some terrible stories about the drives made in China too. Oh well, I guess? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by MCheu on July 26, 2007, 5:29 pm
Please log in for more thread options It's not particularly surprising, or even unusual. 1. Refurbished hard drives aren't repaired. They're just tested. Typically, the testing is the same as for a new drive, or slightly more stringent, as this same drive passed QC the first time it left the factory. That means that either the refurb had nothing wrong with it when it got returned, or the QC tests aren't good enough to catch whatever was wrong with it. Either way, that means that aside from the way shorter warranty, the refurb is as good as the new one -- which isn't necessarily saying much. 2. Typically RMA policy for all the major manufacturers is to send out the same model or a newer one that's as close in specs as the original, if they don't have one in stock. When there's a shortage or issue with a particular model, it's not unheard of for a company to send out a better model. 3. Consider that the one you returned wasn't running at 100%. Before it went down for the count, the problems were probably affecting its performance. If the replacement *is* working properly, you're comparing a drive working to spec, vs one that was having to compensate for bad reads and writes. ------------------------------- MCheu | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by isaac4all on July 26, 2007, 6:56 pm
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seagate SNIGAPORE is better than see gate CHINA. when we shop for Seagate hard drive, we do not purchase any other seagate hard drive that is not made in SNIGAPORE because accounding to our study seagate SNIGAPORE is more reliable and does not get damaged has made in china does. we have used a seagate hard drive made in SNIGAPORE for 6 years 3 monrh now without any problems. wither the hard drive is refurbished or not made in SNIGAPORE is far better than made in china isaac okoye information rules the world www.finditall100free.ds4a.com/Shopping.htm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by on July 26, 2007, 9:31 pm
Please log in for more thread options On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:56:50 -0700, isaac4all
>hi
>seagate SNIGAPORE is better than see gate CHINA. >when we shop for Seagate hard drive, we do not purchase any other >seagate hard drive that is not made in SNIGAPORE because accounding to >our study seagate SNIGAPORE is more reliable and does not get damaged >has made in china does. we have used a seagate hard drive made in >SNIGAPORE for 6 years 3 monrh now without any problems. wither the >hard drive is refurbished or not made in SNIGAPORE is far better than >made in china > > >isaac okoye >information rules the world >www.finditall100free.ds4a.com/Shopping.htm Almost everything made in china is garbage these days. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Bob M on July 27, 2007, 1:51 pm
Please log in for more thread options isaac4all wrote:
> hi
> seagate SNIGAPORE is better than see gate CHINA. > when we shop for Seagate hard drive, we do not purchase any other > seagate hard drive that is not made in SNIGAPORE because accounding to > our study seagate SNIGAPORE is more reliable and does not get damaged > has made in china does. we have used a seagate hard drive made in > SNIGAPORE for 6 years 3 monrh now without any problems. wither the > hard drive is refurbished or not made in SNIGAPORE is far better than > made in china > > > isaac okoye > information rules the world > www.finditall100free.ds4a.com/Shopping.htm > Well now that you have fixed your hard drive problems you should concentrate on your broken keyboard. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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> that horrible CHIRP and other noises. I had it replaced, seagate sent
> me a 'refurbished' drive from SNIGAPORE and it works VERY WELL.
> Even benchmarks are 5%-10% BETTER!!???
>
> Seems odd that a REFURBISHED drive would work so much better than a
> new one.
>
> I think it's the fact that mine is now from SINGAPORE and not China. I
> heard some terrible stories about the drives made in China too.
>
>
> Oh well, I guess?