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Topic: This am, Western Digital dropped me a note saying; "as an ongoing attempt to provide you with better blah blah, we are running a quick check to catergorize your serial number for future updates blah blah" Gonna get...
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Old November 26th, 2002, 07:32 AM   Digg it!   #1 (permalink)
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WD is checking up on your serial numbers on your drive "Real Time" !

This am, Western Digital dropped me a note saying;

"as an ongoing attempt to provide you with better blah blah, we are running a quick check to catergorize your serial number for future updates blah blah"

Gonna get someone to host the jpg or bmp that I took of the message.

Anyone else getting these ?

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Old November 26th, 2002, 07:43 AM     #2 (permalink)
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No, but then again another reason not to buy WD.
BTW, Whats to keep them from acessing other data on the drive?

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Old November 26th, 2002, 07:49 AM     #3 (permalink)
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How would they go about checking the serial number of your hd?
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Old November 26th, 2002, 08:00 AM     #4 (permalink)
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Old November 26th, 2002, 08:19 AM     #5 (permalink)
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Is this built in to the hard drive or is it on a floppy / CD?
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Old November 26th, 2002, 08:22 AM     #6 (permalink)
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What modern drives does this come on? I was thinking of getting a nice WD as they seemed a good deal...
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Old November 26th, 2002, 08:31 AM     #7 (permalink)
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WD are one of the best drives in the market right now!
Maybe this has to do with better service in future transactions with them or something (like RMAing a disk, etc.)... maybe!!
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Old November 26th, 2002, 08:33 AM     #8 (permalink)
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Are you /Did you pay for this "service" as in paying for a warranty extension?
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Old November 26th, 2002, 08:36 AM     #9 (permalink)
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yikes ...

i've got a couple of wd600ab 60 gig drives, a wd 80 gig, and i just picked up a wd 200 gig this weekend ... i don't like the way that sounds.
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Old November 26th, 2002, 08:47 AM     #10 (permalink)
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I havent run accross this yet but I only have a couple of WD's in use. I'm wondering if this is on the new "datalife" floppy.....Going to have to do some checking on this....


Muno, The serial # can be embedded in the firmware of the HD. Thus a "reader" program can easily gleen that info. (kinda like how Sisoft Sandra can tell you what serial # and bios version your motherboard has ect ect)
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