What do you mean, didn't you hear about the Seagate fiasco in almost every hard drive thread on every hot-deal forum out there? Seagates are the least reliable drives percentage-wise.
Seagate, like IBM before it had one product version with abnormally high failure rates.
For IBM it earned the nickname "DeathStar" for it's DeskStar Drives.
IMHO. Seagate needs to drop the name Seagate and do everything under Maxtor in the consumer space and small OEM market (i.e. newegg) and stick to Seagate on the Enterprise and large OEM market (HP, Dell, Acer).
If you've been around long enough you'll know that all models of drives can fail. I've dealt with failures on the following types of drives: (in no particular order)
- Seagate
- Samsung
- Maxtor
- Western Digital
- IBM
- Hitachi
Never buy a HD based on brand name alone... It's the following:
- Price
- Warranty Length - This is often more based on the model of the drive then the brand.
- Performance
- Support - Western Digital and Seagate are top notch here in drive turn around time.
And more on topic, thanks for the link to the low RPM Seagate! I've got someone who needs to expand their windows home server. That will do nicely. For my own rigs I'm waiting on the new "4k" sector drives to come up in spindle speed and down in price.