Seagate Class Action
Friday, March 12th, 2010 - 10:17am
I just got an email from Seagate asking me to get in on the class action in regards to them "lying" about the actual size of hard drives since the OS counts in binary and drive manufacturers measure in base 10. If you bought a Seagate drive between March 22, 2001 and September 26, 2007 go here and fill out the form once for each drive. You need serial numbers, dates, merchants and price minus taxes, shipping and rebates.
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...does that include Maxtor SCSI drives which later became Seagate drives?
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Gosh I have like 8 of them. Too bad I don't have purchase records for most of them.
TempestBlayze wrote:
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I am not sure but all the docs pertaining to the case are on that site I linked so you may be able to find out by perusing them.
Newegg is the bomb for this, my order history forever etched in a database.
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Yeah. Thank god for New Egg's history.
Btw, you get 5% of the pretax value back.
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If there was justice in the world, this lawsuit should be about Seagate's absolutely abysmal reliability in recent years and the fact that they now charge you an extra $20 on top of the shipping to get your defective hard disk replaced in a timely manner.
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I've never bought a Seagate drive. I've always stuck with Western Digital.
Yay for me I guess.
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Really? I've never had a Seagate drive fail on me in all these years. Those 8 drives were merely capacity upgrades.
I have 7 pages of Newegg history, starting with 2006... Oy, it's going to be rough finding the drives in the middle of all of that.
I wonder if this would apply to a NAS? I just bought a BlackArmor NAS. Supposed to be 2 terabytes, ended up showing up as 1.74 TB.
TempestBlayze wrote:
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Seagate has put out a number of drives in the past couple years that have been failing. It's not across the board by any means.
MilkmanDanimal wrote:
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Isn't this just how it works? I've never bought a drive that had exactly as much space as the box said.
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Yeah, if Seagate is held responsible then pretty much the whole industry need to be taken to task for using the whole multiples of 8 thing...
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I've had drives of every make fail on me. I've stopped believing it matters who made it.
Or... maybe the problem is me.
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