Talk:Seagate Technology/Archives/2016

Drive failure epidemic

Why is there no mention of the dive failure epidemic that has recently trashed Seagate's reputation with many previously loyal customers? I think perhaps this article has been polished by Seagate's public relations people, as this was a major event that would no doubt have been written about by someone, and there isn't even mention of it here in the discussion page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.0.153.213 (talk) 19:55, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

Can you provide us with some coverage of this to source the article? Miremare 00:15, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

The IP editor is probably referring to the Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 problems that appeared in Jan 2009 and seem to have disappeared shortly thereafter, see e.g., Seagate isolates 'potential' Barracuda flaw - Offers free firmware upgrade. Personally I don't think this was either a "major event" or an "epidemic" and therefore should not be in the article. Tom94022 (talk) 02:19, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

Some data recovery sources disagree, e.g. http://www.abcdatarecovery.co.uk/7200-11/ . The problem certainly did not disappear after Jan 2009 since it hit me in Dec 2010, with almost identical symptoms, causing no end of grief. I'm pretty sure that whether or not you class this as an "epidemic" or not, it's a far more serious problem than Tom94022 is prepared to admit.Lee M (talk) 04:34, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

All hard disk drives have a failure rate and many times different failure modes can have the same failure symptom. A few disk drive failure rates have risen above the noise level (e.g., the Zip Click Of Death or the IBM Death Star but this one doesn't appear to me to one of those. But it really doesn't matter what any of us think, inclusion should be based upon a reliable source and so far I haven't seen any such evidence that there is an epidemic or even a serious problem beyond the normal failure rate of HDDs. Usually the best sign of problems of a serious magnitude is a lawsuit which turns out to be sort of a reliable source. Tom94022 (talk) 06:03, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Discuss, the seagate drive I own aswell as those bought by many, search "seagate goflex beeping" online and you'll see, seem to fail and there is simply no mention of this by the seagate people and as a result they charge a great deal of money to get your information back, in my opinion this seems very sketchy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.234.104.148 (talk) 23:22, 14 October 2011 (UTC)

Sure, all drives fail. But failing HDD, that just hit 3 years is ridiculous!!! I was planning to move all data from older 5 or 6 years old HDD(the other manufacturer) to new HDD, but instead - 3TB Seagate HDD just failed. I've moved all data from that 2 TB drive just 1 year ago... I kinda understand now the feeling other people had, when they were emotional anout Seagate HDD failures and now I feel the same.

You can calculate, that my HDD was bought 1 year after floods in Thailand, so the question is how they were producing HDDs and what crap they were selling to customers to get top sales. They should have recalling their crap back then, when failure rates were high.

194.126.91.146 (talk) 12:20, 10 April 2016 (UTC)

Irish company?

An edit-war is starting over stating whether Seagate is "Irish" or not. It's HQ is in Ireland, but it used to be in the Caribbean, and it wasn't a "Caribbean" company then. If we have multiple sources stating specifically that it's "Irish" (or "American-Irish" or some such combination), then we should say so. But without such sources, we cannot say so. (A source stating "with HQ in Dublin" is not equivalent to stating "Irish".) --A D Monroe III (talk) 14:48, 22 July 2016 (UTC)

The Irish nationality is not relevant as it is a tax fiddle 84.40.142.143 (talk) 18:24, 27 August 2016 (UTC)