Howto: Check your hard drive's warranty online

If there’s one thing about hard drives I’ve learned in the last couple of years is that hard drives with a 1 year warranty are not worth buying. The likelihood of a drive failure before 3 years is fairly high in my experience. Right now I’m going through drives which have failed or are failing and checking their warranties to see if any can be replaced before I take them to freegeek for disposable. I figured it would be wise to make a list of links of warranty checkers.

• Western Digital
• Seagate / Maxtor
• Hitachi
• Samsung