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		evntdrvn on Sept 23, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hard Drive Reliability Update – Sep 2014 Have you been able to reach out to anyone at Seagate in their drive FA group to see if they'd be interested in you sending back samples of the failed drives?

atYevP on Sept 24, 2014 | [–]

We do have occasional talks with all hard drive manufacturers, but we can't say about what :)

mey on Sept 24, 2014 | [–]

I assume (mentioned in the article) they get sent back for warranty RMA.

atYevP on Sept 24, 2014 | [–]

Yes, we try to RMA all the drives that are still under warranty.

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