Seagate slapped with a class action lawsuit over hard drive failure rates<article>
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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>
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lawsuit, 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, 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>
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Seagate slapped with a class action lawsuit over hard drive failure rates
