Hello everyone,
If you buy HDD's from Seagate and shuck them, are you covered by warranty in case one fails 6 months later?
Anyone has any experience with claiming warranty for a shucked drive?
Shucked Drives and Warranties
[Deactivated] on 28/10/2018 - 15:13
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That's what I thought. Wondering is anyone went ahead with this claim.
I just buy new drives, it's too hard to warranty consumer drives for what they cost.
Well, TIL that putting a HDD into an enclosure has a name, and that name is “shuck”
I think it's the opposite - buying external and taking out the HDD inside. "Shucking" presumably like an oyster?
Yeah, that’s what I meant to write, pulling drives out of enclosures. I had to look it up and the site I found it on said it was the effort of pulling the drive out of one enclosure and putting it into something else.
I had a brain fart and apparently that’s worth neg voting. Had I have known that ”reverse shucking” would upset so many, I would have left the PS4 fanboys alone a long time ago. :D
I've no idea how people spend negs so freely. I hoard mine like crazy and still run out way too soon.
@HighAndDry: I have a couple of butt hurt users I have schooled that follow me around and wait for posts I make that have 0 votes, and they drop negs on them in the hope that I care about fake internet points. :)
I always thought shucking drives meant removing a HDD from the enclosure it comes in.
Which meant the unit is warrantied as a whole, and removing it should break warranty. Should say something on the warranty booklet, or if you need to break through any "warranty void if broken" stickers to shuck them…
Think this falls under "if they can prove the shucking was the cause for the failure"
Well, you'll be in for a fight then. If they can prove you have modified their product that's going to be their first port-of-call to reject the warranty. It is true that you may win in the end if shucking wasn't the cause of failure, but it won't be as straightforward.
Do they have to prove it or do you?
I'd argue you've modified something that wasn't designed for bit
Logically, I wouldn't think it's covered under warranty but that's just me
@87percent: I was under this assumption also but knowing the sneakiness of the IT community I believe anything can be done haha lol
Side issue: Another good reason to shuck HDDs: Some poorly designed USB boxes are badly designed for calling holes. Drives have overheated!
That is not really a good reason at all!
Yes (covered by warranty) and No (not claimed on warranty).
The enclosure won't be covered but the drive inside it still is.