Seagate slapped with a class action lawsuit

[Scallica]

"Seagate slapped with a class action lawsuit over hard drive failure rates. The lawsuit cites high failure rates and negative consumer reviews for Seagate’s 3 TB consumer hard drives."

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3028981/ ... rates.html

I only use Western Digital for non-SSD hard drives. All the Seagate drives I have owned have failed.

[webminster]

I used a set of these in a previous HTPC, running 4 of these on a RAID5 controller. Over a couple of years, replaced 3 drives. Learned to avoid Seagate at all costs since, sticking with WD and HGST.

[STC]

I've done a few warranty replacements with them and usually the refurbished drive dies shortly after at which point you have no warranty status or leg to stand on.

Pretty poor.

[audinutt]

Seagate was okay until they joined forces with Maxtor. Then the quality all went in the crapper

[webminster]

Maxtor - there's a name. I had some really bad drives from them a long time ago.

[Crash2009]

Me too. I lost a 2 and a 3 TB recently. smart errors.

Thanks for the info.

[Crash2009]

I am signing up for the Class Action. Both my 2TB and 3TB qualify.

[soapdishbandit]

Yup, my 3TB died a little more than 2 years later. POS! How do you sign up?

[mdavej]

Mine too. I just signed up. Hope it amounts to something:

https://www.hbsslaw.com/cases/seagate

[Crash2009]

I bought a 2 TB in 2012 from Newegg. The first one was DOA. The replacement had a tick but it ran well and passed the diag. I bought a 3TB in 2013.

The 2TB was retired as the recording drive in July 2015. The 3 TB was the recording drive for only 6 months. The 2TB and 3TB were used as Storage for a time, they were both removed after SMART errors began. I am presently using an older 500GB as the recording drive.

Both drives have DM001 in the model number.

[webminster]

I ":signed up," then got a questionnaire asking for a lot of details - when did you buy it, when did it fail, etc.etc. Some stuff I can look up, enough drives failed I have no records of which and why. I bought replacements and kept no records of what replaced what when.. figure I'm not the star witness type...

[Crash2009]

Both mine were bought at Newegg so it was pretty easy to look up. You can copy mine if you want.

3tb was Feb 2013

2tb was Jan 2012

I'll post the details if you want.

[webminster]

No, I mean I know when I bought them. Just not the details on when they failed with what exact context. I did not contact Seagate on the failures, meaning I don't have the date/context of failures the lawyers wanted.

[STC]

The defense rests.

[Crash2009]

No, I mean I know when I bought them. Just not the details on when they failed with what exact context. I did not contact Seagate on the failures, meaning I don't have the date/context of failures the lawyers wanted.

Whether you do or you don't makes no difference to me.