RIP Seagate hard drives

[Michael Hipp]

For years Seagate has been my go-to brand for hard drives. But lately I 
had read rumors that Seagate hard drives above 500GB have severe quality 
problems.

I just bought 3 of these:
Seagate Barracuda ST1000DM003 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5"
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148840

#1: DOA
#2: Starts showing sector errors within 48 hours of first installation
#3: Seems ok, but Seagate Seatools fails it on SMART and Short DST

So they're all going back to Newegg.

I guess I'll order Western Digital to replace them. (Ye Gods! I can't 
believe I just wrote that. Next I'll be driving a Ford Pinto.)

And all the hate toward Ubuntu's server installers the last few days was 
probably due to Seagate's crappy hard drives instead. I repent.

Just wish I could get the last couple of days of my life back.

Michael