RIP Seagate hard drives

Man-wai Chang mwchang at hkbn.net
Sat Feb 16 09:19:33 PST 2013


You didn't kick the PC by accident, did you? :)

But then, maybe NewEgg shipped you bad ones to confirm something. And 
maybe the delivery guy might have juggled with them... :)

On 17/02/2013 12:30 AM, Michael Hipp wrote:
> 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.
> #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


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