Question about Seagate's extended hard drive warranty and data recovery.

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So I've got two new external 3TB drives , Seagate is offering a 2 year extension with data recovery ..

My question is , how far will Seagate honor the data recovery portion of the warranty? They can't possibly spend thousands of dollars recovering data with only a $24.99 policy cost.

Is it even worth the piece of mind? Or is it more just about a replacement drive and only a very minimal data recovery?
 
A number of manufacturers and resellers offer similar recovery packages. It is no different than free replacement policies at Best Buy or any other insurance package in any any industry. They figure they can sell the package to X number of people. They figure that Y number of people will use/remember they bought the policy. If the $$$ comes out in the plus column, they will sell it. A number of the policies are with named, well known recovery houses like Drivesavers and others. As to what level of recovery they will provide (logical only, physical etc), read the fine print of the particular policy you are considering.
 
mwroobel said:
A number of manufacturers and resellers offer similar recovery packages. It is no different than free replacement policies at Best Buy or any other insurance package in any industry. They figure they can sell the package to X number of people. They figure that Y number of people will use/remember they bought the policy. If the $$$ comes out in the plus column, they will sell it.
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So its really just a basic extended warranty for all intents and purposes?

Alright. Good to know.
 
Seagate has their own inhouse data recovery service. So you pay $25 and they give you $1000 or so of recovery if the drive fails.
 
GeorgeHR said:
Seagate has their own inhouse data recovery service. So you pay $25 and they give you $1000 or so of recovery if the drive fails.
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So is that the quoted max that they will spend to attempt to recover your data or is that a rumored/gossiped figure that is estimated?
 
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