Western Digital RMA Experience!

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my WD RMA experience...

i woke up one morning to find my 160gb wd passport not working, it would spin up then click then turn off, i was mad that i lost data but i decided that i would either take it apart or send it back, the only deciding factor was if it had a warrenty. Well shucks, it did have warrenty, in fact it has warrenty untill 2011 december, i was happy :) . I sent it back to them and they recieved it in only a couple of days, they were saying that it could take up to 4 weeks till i got it back so i was a little upset but then it arrived not 1 week after they recieved it. You could prolly imagine my surprise when it arrived, i couldnt tell who it was from because the return name was cut off but when i opened it there was this little peice of paper and a new WD passport in it, i checked it out plugged it in and found out it was 320gb! i looked at the paper and it said 320gb cherry red passport, WHOOHOO! i got a free upgrade, i looked into why and its because they dont make 160gb hard drives any more and the next step up was the 320gb passport.



only downside to this is that i had difficulty contacting tech support when i was troubleshooting it but other then that they really did a 200% job here!
 
Glad you had a good experience. I have 3 dead WDs I've been procrastinating sending in. Hopefully I'll have good luck as well.
 
I had the same happen to me once, although I was actually pissed. I sent a nice 640gb drive back and got a much slower 750gb drive back :(
 
I've also had good experience with WD RMA using advance replacement. Top notch and super quick (as in less than a week to wrap it up).

Free upgrades rule; glad you also had a good experience with WD!
 
I've had great experiences as well with WD RMAs. Last one I did I RMAd a 1TB Green Drive. Was shipped same day but had a peculiar error on the RMA status. Said a 1.5TB green drive was pending shipment so I called them and asked about it, if I would be liable for anything if it got sent out. They said if it gets sent out don't worry about it and just keep it. Didn't think much of it when I got my replacement drive, and sent mine back. 2 weeks later I found a package at my front door with a free 1.5TB green drive in it. Pretty good RMA service if you ask me.
 
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