November 26th, 2002, 07:32 AM
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| | Ultimate Member
Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Dahlonega Ga
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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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November 26th, 2002, 07:43 AM
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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?
WB
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November 26th, 2002, 07:49 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Finland
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How would they go about checking the serial number of your hd?
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November 26th, 2002, 08:00 AM
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November 26th, 2002, 08:19 AM
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Is this built in to the hard drive or is it on a floppy / CD? | |
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November 26th, 2002, 08:22 AM
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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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November 26th, 2002, 08:31 AM
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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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November 26th, 2002, 08:33 AM
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Are you /Did you pay for this "service" as in paying for a warranty extension?
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They say technology slows down for no one. I know it outruns my wallet. I figure its because my wallet isn't light enough yet.
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November 26th, 2002, 08:36 AM
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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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November 26th, 2002, 08:47 AM
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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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