So how many more stories of these drives being absolute garbage do we all have?

Of all the drives I’ve ever owned. From Hitachi, Maxxtor, Seagate, Western Digital and others…this is the only one I’ve had that died. Apparently this is a trend with these particular drives?

This one is currently a paperweight

  • I’ve owned at least 4 of these and dozens of other makes and sizes. Every one of the Seagates died completely and suddenly. All my other retired drives (< 5) were due to increasing smart errors and never actually ceased working