Warranty Check please - intend to order today

[Oldjim]

I was just about to order one of these http://www.scan.co.uk/products/1tb-s...cache-85ms-ncq when I noticed that the description on the page states that it is OEM but with a 36 month warranty.
I thought Seagate OEM were 12 months.
Can you please confirm as if it is 12 months I will order a Caviar Green instead

[Oldjim]

I will assume that the 3 year warranty is valid and that, if Seagate won't honour it, Scan will so I will be placing the order tomorrow afternoon and will advise the actual warranty from Seagate found by putting the serial number in http://support.seagate.com/customer/...ion.jsp?form=0

[jim]

There used to be a similar discrepancy with Samsung drives (bought out by Seagate), and Scan honoured the warranties. Not that it means it'll be fine this time, but it's promising, at the very least.

[Oldjim]

Just received the drive and the warranty check show it to be valid until 13 Feb 2015 so about 23 months
OLQ raised

[Oldjim]

Very quick reply from Scan - the nominal warranty is only 12 months so I will be returning it and ordering a WD drive instead

Edit - all seems to be sorted WD drive should arrive Monday and hopefully the Seagate will be picked up at the same time

[Oldjim]

To finalise
New drive arrived today and RMA collected - all very efficient and it is now installed
Note to self - next time I order a hard drive add a couple of SATA cables (non left) and some screws (despite having a bag full of various sizes and thread pitches I seem to be running short of ones which fit disk drives)