RIP Seagate hard drives

[Rick Bowers]

At 2/16/2013 11:30 AM, you 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.
>
>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
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Well, That is very disturbing. I don't want to have to buy Western 
Digital drives. Every WD drive I've bought over the past several 
years has failed miserably. Usually, they just fail to startup.
I've lost lots of data when I've backed up to a WD drive only to have 
the drive die. And WD won't replace data under warranty. A complete disaster.

~Rick