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Title: Seagate slapped with a class action lawsuit over hard drive failure rates Post by: HCK on February 03, 2016, 09:00:13 am Seagate slapped with a class action lawsuit over hard drive failure rates
<article> <section class="page"> <p> Seagate is facing a class action lawsuit over its 3TB consumer hard drives, which by some accounts have suffered unusually high failure rates.</p><p> The lawsuit (https://www.hbsslaw.com/uploads/case_downloads/seagate/01-01-16_class_action_complaint_seagate.pdf), filed on February 1 in the U.S. District Court for Northern California, primarily cites reliability data from Backblaze, a cloud backup provider that builds its own storage pods from consumer hard drives. In Backblaze’s experience, Seagate's 3TB HDDs failed at much higher rates than other drives (http://www.pcworld.com/article/2873194/want-a-reliable-hard-drive-splurge-for-4tb-study-of-40000-plus-hdds-finds.html), prompting the storage provider to phase out those drives by mid-2015.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3028981/storage/seagate-slapped-with-a-class-action-lawsuit-over-hard-drive-failure-rates.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Seagate slapped with a class action lawsuit over hard drive failure rates (http://www.macworld.com/article/3028981/storage/seagate-slapped-with-a-class-action-lawsuit-over-hard-drive-failure-rates.html#tk.rss_all) |