WD sends a new or refuebished drive, under RMA?

WD Internal Drives Desktop & Mobile Drives
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I’m sending out a defective WD40EZAZ to WD USA for replacement under RMA, after confirmed by support as bad.

Will WD send me back a new or refurbished drive?
Will the remaining time of warranty I have for the bad drive, be kept for the replacement drive as well?

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Western Digital warrants that the replaced Products are covered for the remainder of the original Product warranty or 90 days, whichever is greater.

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RMA again, and guess what? Yup, it goes bad in less than a month. It’s not just with the WD5000BEVT. I’ve RMA 'ed other models of WD drives.

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I ended up returning my WD Blue to the store and replaced with a Seagate Barracuda. Never in my life I came across a situation in which 2 new HDD were DOA! I also found talking to WD support that intl. warranty isn’t respected if purchased in certain countries. I’ll never ever buy WD again.