Way to go Maxtor! I just learned that they are going to be increasing warranty time on their desktop, enterprise HDDs. This really shows their commitment to us, the end users, in my opinion.

Now if we could just get that sort of support from retail outlets as well, things would be great. Alright, maybe that seems a little unrealistic. However I feel that retail outlets could definitely learn a lot from gestures like Maxtor’s though.

Hard drive maker Maxtor has followed rival manufacturer Seagate and upped the duration of the warranty it offers for enterprise-class drives.

The company also increased the warranty period for internal desktop PC drives to three years. In some territories, that’s already the warranty duration for these products - in others it’s just one year. Maxtor’s move is essentially about unifying the coverage period across all the territories in which it operates.

Likewise, it already provides five-year warranties on enterprise-oriented SCSI drives, so the upgrade here brings parallel and Serial ATA drive warranties into line with those products.