Windows 10: Seagate slapped with class action lawsuit over hard drive failure rate

I've made most of my comments on this topic over at seven forums, so I'll just add, whenever buying HDDs Its not so much the manufacturer that concerns me, but the country of origin and how the workers/management feel about quality control and if management give a damn about their workers.
{Though unrelated, my mind always goes back to that garment factory disaster in Bangladesh a couple years back, where the owners didn't give a damn about the workers, just almighty profit. The CBC "Fifth Estate" did a docu on that, as well as Global (Shaw)TV. Plus are we to blame here for wanting HDDs as cheaply as possible?}

 

There were 2 indicators that told me they were going to go downhill:

1. When they bought that joke Maxtor. Had nothing but trouble with their HDDs.
2. When they moved manufacturing to China.

 

This is the nature of business cycle. Over 200 companies has left the industry with major consolidation.




All my failed Seagate drives were manufactured in Thailand with a site code TK! So much of manufacturing are automated. I think it is in the design!

 

Maxtors just plain sucked. Every drive I owned from them failed. Their design flaws creeped into Seagate. Even if that's not actually true, I'm still blaming them *Smile

 

Maxtors is not my favorite drive. However, I still have 3x 80 GB drive in my garage - Old HD bin! They are good for benchmark purpose but still spin up.

 

All mine developed the click of death commonly associated with IBM death star hard drives.

 

Maybe they have gotten better after being spun off to Hitachi?

 

I've not heard good reports on Hitachi either. I stick with WD but now I have a nice 500Gb Seagate and it's working just fine.

 

I think one of those backblaze studies indicated the Hitachi's were more reliable than others.

 

My new desktop has a Seagate 1TB HDD. As soon as my SSD comes in the HDD is going to be my data drive.

 

I have 4 seagate drives the first one I got was a 1TB storage drive about 4 years ago.Have two 2TB storage.Just brought a 3TB expansion a month ago.
The only trouble i've had is the 1 TB became corrupted after about a year and a half thankfully i found a recovery program that worked abd was able to retrieve most of the data,after re formatting it I've had no problems with it since .
No problems with the others so far.

 

I just dug out a old 1.5 GB Seagate FreeAgent Desk drive that I had put away and forgot about. I've only had one problem with it. Since day one it's had a clicking noise. I searched the internet and found tips suggesting to turn it upside down. I tried it and it actually worked. Except for the clicking it's been a very dependable drive.