Dear Seagate, What a love-hate relationship we have had. It has been 10 years, and while I have enjoyed much of it, I have suffered enough heartbreak. I think it is finally time to say goodbye. Drive after drive has died on me (5 of them to be exact). Your firmware release to fix spontaneous [...]
Yet another Seagate drive I own bit the dust a few days ago. The current victim is a Barracuda 7200.11 500 GB drive. I can’t quite recall when I bought it, but it is still under warranty for quite some time. Before anyone asks – yes, I updated the firmware. No, not the original “fix” [...]
Another week, another opportunity for Seagate to disappoint. I have to start by saying that the turnaround time for my RMA has been pretty quick. I had a shipping notification the same afternoon they received my dead drive. That being said, the replacement should arrive at my house today. I really hope I get it. [...]
I prefer Seagate drives over most others because I typically don’t have many issues with the drives, if at all. Recently though, a relatively new (6 mos. old) drive died on me, and I went to Seagate’s site to submit an RMA. Normally the process is pretty simple. I have RMA-d quite a few Western [...]
