Did I get a bad drive from Amazon?

[donald.m.motsinger]

@snorkel

maybe you should go with Toshiba

Depending on the region you might run into problems when trying to RMA a Toshiba drive.

CMR 12TB drive - 100% usage

Be aware of that Toshiba doesn’t honour the warranty to end costumers. That reply I got from Toshiba back in 2020 Dear Donald Motsinger. Sorry, we cannot accept your account request for ‘internal’ storage products! These account requests are only intended for Toshiba authorized distributors. Please contact your dealer for warranty processing. So you’re at the mercy of the seller you bought it from. Ebuyer UK only gave me a partial refund for that drive. And that was it with Toshiba for m…