Hitachi offers 3-yr warranty on HDDs
By Nagesh Joshi ,May 06, 2004

After much deliberation, Hitachi has introduced 3-year local warranty support on its hard disk drives sold in India.

Hitachi's exclusive national distributor Cyberstar's marketing director Rajiv Chaudhari said, "We want Hitachi to gain 10 percent market share in hard disk drive space within next three months. The 3-year warranty and competitive pricing can give us an edge over competitors."

Hitachi's entry level product, the 40 GB 7,200-rpm, is priced at Rs 2,800 (at par with Samsung) while the 80 GB 7,200-rpm drive is priced at Rs 3,850.

"Hitachi has the widest range (from 40GB to 400GB SATA, to SCSI drives to notebook drives) than any other brand. The 3-year warranty feature will prove beneficial as customers are looking for more options," said Hitesh Mody, director, Jaydee Electronics, a channel partner from Mumbai. These hard disk drives originally being IBM's products are perceived as good quality products by customers, he added.

Hitachi HDDs are currently available with Cyberstar's partners in 13 cities in India.