About 3 years ago, I built a batch of computers for an organization. They use a total of 16 Seagate’s business class Barracuda drives. Within 2 years, 3 out of the 16 died. That’s almost 19% failure. By the end of the 3rd year, 1 more died, so at this point 25% failure. As if this is not bad enough, the 3 “Certified Repaired” drives Seagate replaced under warranty all died within 6 months. So all told, 7 out of 19, i.e., almost 37%, died within 3 years. All are confirmed death by Sea Tool. Additionally, the Seagate drive in my laptop also died after just 2 years of service.

This is just ridiculous. I surely hope somebody at Seagate is reading this.