• hopesdead@startrek.website
    212·
    6 months ago

    I owned a Xbox branded HDD that stopped working after 60 days. It was exactly 61 days. I had tried to get a refund at Best Buy where I bought it and they refused because their return policy said 60 days.

    I simply refuse to purchase a Seagate product ever again.

    • DigitalDilemma@lemmy.mlEnglish
      17·
      6 months ago

      Guessing this wasn’t in Europe. Consumer protection laws actually do stuff over here. Goods must be fit for purpose, and there’s no fixed limit for how long that is. A refund after two years wouldn’t be unreasonable for a hard drive and likely to succeed.

      • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        7·
        6 months ago

        wasn’t in the US New England area either, we have consumer protections that block that type of fraud here.

    • deranger@sh.itjust.works
      81·
      6 months ago

      You know that drive has a 1 year warranty, right?

      HDDs have a bathtub failure curve no matter who makes them.

  • TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    6 months ago

    I don’t think I’ve ever owned a Seagate drive in the last 20 or so years. Every time I’ve been shopping for a spinning disk, there has been some ongoing controversy surrounding Seagate in one form or another that turned me off buying one.

    • deranger@sh.itjust.works
      19·
      6 months ago

      When I was putting together my NAS, WD was selling their NAS grade drives without disclosing they were SMR. They got hit with a class action for this.

      They’re all trying shady shit, no HDD will run forever, no corporation cares about you, so use whatever you want and backup your data.

      I have 114TB of Seagate drives right now and they’re fine. I’d use WD too, or HGST. The fanboyism around HDDs is so strange to me.

      • kalpol@lemmy.world
        1·
        6 months ago

        Yep I have a Seagate array and a HGST array and a WD array, and they’ve got 50k hours and are all fine (he said knocking on wood)

  • remer@lemmy.worldBanned
    71·
    6 months ago

    So if seagate isn’t an option, and WD isn’t an option because of the SMR bait and switch, what hard drives are recommended?

  • HappyTimeHarry@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    6 months ago

    I just buy refurbished/refreshed drives intentionally. Recently picked up a 20tb drive for just under $200, and get a 5 year warranty with them too.

  • apotheotic (she/her)@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2·
    6 months ago

    Isn’t this at least the second time Seagate have been caught out selling used hardware as new?

  • dx1@lemmy.mlEnglish
    49·
    6 months ago

    Much like how the current German government is just resold, used Nazi Germany

    • ReakDuck@lemmy.ml
      32·
      6 months ago

      If you mean the AfD which are actual Nazis, they never had power yet but gain much more traction recently sadly. Even Elon Musk loves AfD but he a Nazi too, so no wonder things gained traction with his twitter/X.

      Everything that were in government, was pretty left wing except the CDU which was… well they were lobbyistic but not that far right. But today they are.

      • Mangoholic@lemmy.ml
        4·
        6 months ago

        SPD singnals left but turned right, FDP are also rightwing. The only option are greens who only partially forfilled their promise and the left which has a realy low chance of getting relevant results.

        • ReakDuck@lemmy.ml
          2·
          6 months ago

          Oh, I didnt knew enough about SPD. I see.

          The left seems like the most important choice. I hope they will be heared