Quote Originally Posted by safan80 View Post
lol good point.




Linux users were the first to report the problem and seagate claimed that it was a Linux problem and that they did not support Linux. Once windows users reported the problem seagate took their time fixing it. Also they've reduced their warranty period from 5 to 3 years. Lately they've had problems with quality control and drive failures. Wanting to sue SSD makers.. etc. I have more reasons to not buy seagate for the time being, but it's not because of one single issue it's because of their attitude of late.
If you think any manufacturer wouldn't have behaved the same way as Seagate, you're kidding yourself. Deny, deny, deny then silent fix and only annouce when you're fixed is the way of the world sadly.

All manufacturers have problems with drive failures. I also keep hearing that every manufacturer is having problems with quality control. Funny that. The warranty reduction is rather annoying, but they've just equalised to most of the other manufacturers (and yes most are 3 years, including WD, as only WDs top = expensive drives are 5 years and actually Seagate's enterprise drives remain 5 years too. Seagate have far fewer SKUs, personally I find WD large number of SKUs confusing and they only have one level for desktop drives. Reality is of course, few people buy WD's top SKUs, they're expensive and not worth it for most. Note that most of the Green Power are not 5 years, it's only the Raid Edition i.e. expensive Green Powers that are.

don't know much about the suing SSD manufacturer bit but I suspect it's a patent issue, sadly an unseemingly thing which most manufacturers engage in.

Personally I've used Seagate almost exclusively for the past few years and had no failures. Of course, it means absolutely nothing as with any random anecdotal reports. Now that Seagate no longer have 5 year warranties, I no longer have a reason to choose Seagate but from what I've seen so far, it's difficult to say any manufacturer is clearly on top at the moment.