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Seagate hard drive controversy persists as scammers discover methods to alter reliability metrics

www.tomshardware.com Seagate hard drive controversy persists as scammers discover methods to alter reliability metrics

More trouble for Seagate?

Seagate hard drive controversy persists as scammers discover methods to alter reliability metrics

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As someone who's always disliked Seagate based more on vibes than actual facts, I feel so vindicated right now
- I'm at work so I'm sorry for not being able to provide a source, but there's a website that tracks hard drive failure rates and Seagate is consistently one of the worst brands. So there's some extra facts for you.
  
  Would love to see that site if you can post it later!
  
  Has that always been the case, or did they just start going downhill somewhat recently? I feel like I remember Seagate being the higher end drives back in the day, the next step up from WD. Definitely doesn't seem to be the case anymore.
- It wasn't them as a company right? it was a few resellers that decided to buy a shady lot of drives for resale. As in not buy from Sagate, but buy from somebody saying hey I got a ton of drives for cheap you can unload
  
  If Ford is the only company with an odometer rollback problem, blame Ford, not the used car dealers.
  
  I commented before reading, as is tradition. I expected these tools to be hard to temper with though, do the other manufacturers have the same "vulnerability" ?
- I've never owned a hard drive that failed on me that wasn't made by Seagate. I have 20+ year old WD IDE drives that still work fine to this day.
Bring back Maxtor!

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