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[FW] Seagate sued over alleged 'defective' drives
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/baig/2016/02/02/seagate-sued-over-alleged-defective-drives/79714384/ NEW YORK—Hard drive maker Seagate Technologies is facing a class action law suit surrounding drives that plaintiffs allege "were defective and failed prematurely at spectacularly – and in many respects unprecedentedly – high rates." The case was filed Monday at the U.S. District Court in Northern California. The suit specifically calls out the Seagate Barracuda 3TB Hard Disk Drive and the Seagate Backup Plus 3TB External Hard Disk Drive models. The former was marketed "as an engineering triumph and a 'major milestone for the hard drive industry' and 'as having a `host of refined technologies to further boost performance'" which the plaintiffs allege wasn't so. To bolster their claims, the complainents point to data from the online backup provider Backblaze, which reported that in "terms of raw percentages, approximately 32% of the (drives in question) deployed in 2012 failed by early 2015," and that "only 68%... that were deployed in 2012 were operational after three years, well below Backblaze's overall drive survival rate of 80% after four years." The suit also mentions more than 700 negative reviews for Barracuda on the Newegg.com website. On its own website, the Hagens Berman and Sheller law firm handling the suit is inviting consumers who purchased one of the drives in question to fill out forms to see if they, "may be entitled to damages including replacement costs and damages from loss of data and data recovery expenses." In a statement mailed to USA TODAY, Seagate said it "has received a copy of the complaint but has not yet been served. Seagate is reviewing the complaint and will respond to it in due course." -- @~@ Remain silent. Nothing from soldiers and magicians is real! / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! May the Force and farces be with you! /( _ )\ (Fedora release 23) Linux 4.3.3-301.fc23.x86_64 ^ ^ 17:57:01 up 19:22 0 users load average: 1.11 1.07 1.05 不借貸! 不詐騙! 不援交! 不打交! 不打劫! 不自殺! 請考慮綜援 (CSSA): http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_...sub_addressesa |
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[FW] Seagate sued over alleged 'defective' drives
Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
To bolster their claims, the complainents point to data from the online backup provider Backblaze, which reported that in "terms of raw percentages, approximately 32% of the (drives in question) deployed in 2012 failed by early 2015," and that "only 68%... that were deployed in 2012 were operational after three years, well below Backblaze's overall drive survival rate of 80% after four years." That difference may not be big enough to stand out against variability in the test conditions. Here's an article from 2014 about the limitations in BackBlaze's test methodology: http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/60...red/index.html Overall I think the data probably isn't completely meaningless, but the test conditions certainly don't seem to be scientific enough to draw big conclusions from a 12% difference. -- __ __ #_ |\| | _# |
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