Seagate Class Action Lawsuit

I've stopped using Seagate drives in favor of Western Digital a few years ago, but now it looks like there is a class action lawsuit for consistently faulty drives.

Photographers Beware: Seagate Slapped with a Class Action Suit Over Bad Hard Drives

Will be interesting to follow this one.

Good thing all my Seagates are 2- and 4-TB then, huh?

But I don't see how 222.77% of them can fail.

480sparky said:

Good thing all my Seagates are 2- and 4-TB then, huh?

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The interesting thing there is that I had heard general guidance to avoid EVERYONE's 3TB drives, due to issues.

Other than that, I don't know if it's worth adding to the backup routine using different brands of disks to protect against a bad model or not, just something curious to watch.

I have a 3TB Seagate drive sitting on my desk because I just replaced it in my NAS last week. The label I put on the disk says I installed that drive late 2013. I like to buy WD drives whenever possible, but sometimes the allure of saving $20-$30 on a Seagate gets me. I think I should reassess my money saving practices.

I've had some of my Seagates since '11. I think I have 8 of 'em now.

Zero issues with my Seagate drives.

I had two Dell computers both of which used Seagate hard drives. Both were terrible. The first one constantly had the blue screen of death. I use 3 Western Digital My Passport drives because I didn't want Seagate.

I quite using Seagate years ago because of the high failure rate.

carguy said:

Zero issues with my Seagate drives.

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Same here. Both with internal laptop and external drives.

WD external drives have given me the most grief. Two failures in five years. One laptop and one external.

One external drive is a Seagate. I'll check it tonight.