[citation][nom]LordConrad[/nom]I'm glad that Seagate is doing well, I've never had any storage problems while using their drives.[/citation]
So you've never used one of their drives then?
Let me tell you a little story.
Once upon a time I thought that surely Seagate wouldn't make as bad server drives as it did workstation ones. So when I got two new hp dl380's equipped with 1tb seagate drives I wasn't too worried. That was january 2009. Fast forward 5 months, and I've had one complete system failure (because two drives broke before I had gotten one new back), and 3 times was I running in a degraded array due to one disk going bad. I had two of those servers, in two different locations (in fact over 60km apart), and they both broke down due to drive failures.
In comparison we've had some eonstor inexpensive storage boxes running for about 3 or 4 years before the first hitashi drive broke (1 drive out of 78) running continuously. And if you disregard the WD 500gb and the early raptor 36gb drives, wd's got a very low fail rate too. Not compared to hitachi - nobody touches them. But still. Maxtor on the other hand always broke down. Especially the flatter 3.5" ide drives (20-80gb) - then seagate bought it and fixed ... absolutely nothing. A fair guess would be that I've had about 120-140 maxtor & seagate drives fail me over the last 10 years, and approx 30 other drives total at work.
In short - I don't trust seagate one bit. At home I've got samsung, hitachi and wd drives only. If it's my money, I'm not going to spend it on seagate. They may produce all their own parts, but appearently they don't know how to put them together.