WD Slashes HDD Warranties By A Third – But You Can Buy Them Back

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Neither company has said anything about reducing prices and the price of hard discs has actually gone way up recently due to the floods...

So your argument doesn't hold. No, they're screwing the customer, pure and simple. This is what happens when there isn't enough competition in the marketplace.

My argument holds just fine. They're not screwing the customer. It is simple though.

If they'd reduced the amount of TB in each drive for the same price then it'd be exactly the same thing.

People will now pay a little bit more for a Seagate with 3 years warranty rather than a WD.