I've bought two new Hitachi A7K3000 2TB Festplatte 3,5 Zoll 7200rpm 6Gbps according to my invoice and order page on Amazon.
That the drives label says "APR-2012" looked suspicious to me and I've tried to verify the serial numbers on http://www.hgst.com/portal/site/en/support/warranty/. The page doesn't show me even an expatriation date and says it's not warrenty available for that device. The serials in question are:
- YFH4AXEB
- YGH25HLA
Next thing was to call the German HTSG Support (I'm from Germany) and the terrible to understand (obviously no native German speaker) call center agent told me that, according to his system, the serials are valid and have a warrant until 2017 Seriously? Not really what I expected when intentionally buying a drive with a 5 year warranty in 2015.
Before I've read this page http://www.hgst.com/support/warranty-rma/warranty and asked him if the warranty period starts from the day of purchase or or the manufacturing date. He said day of purchase but I somehow doubt that. I plan to use the drives in a RAID 1 in a NAS and want to be sure I've something more or less reliable and warranty when one of the drives fails.
So my actual question is now: Is this really the part I've ordered here and is it the same as shown here?
There are more differences. The page says HUA723020ALA640/0F12455 while the sticker on the drives says HUA723020ALA641/0F12470. Is this just a newer model or a completely different device?
