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Having a conversation with our resident SLRL Technical director just now, the question of reliability came up not just with drives but information, and that sort of lends to how information is interpreted. This kind of news is always sure to get a lot of attention, just given the nature of it, and that kind of attention means it also won’t be immune to scrutiny.

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You can see the full review of the Samsung T1 here, as well as a sort of inexpensive but useful solution for using internal drives externally with a docking bay. It’s understood these things are never cheap, but the cost of failure can be, at times, incalculable.

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For personal use, and that means small studio use, I favor using Samsung SSD drives like the 850 EVO we love the G-Tech stuff like the G-RAID 8TB and Pye and I both adore and move around with the Samsung T1, which is about the best portable solution I’ve ever used. But those are sort of basic, and typically very slow. You can find a lot of information within our article archives, but Western Digital, as far as typical off-the-shelf-at-Best-Buy drives go, seem to fare well. Even though the suit is Cali-based, those who suffered from this plague of Seagate’s creation are being urged by the law firm, Hagens Berman, to contact them to possibly join the suit.Īt this point, the natural reaction is to wonder what drives to get, and what brand to trust. District Court of the Northern District of California, essentially stating the complaint as being the drives “failed at exceptionally high rates, leaving consumers with broken hardware and significant loss of data.” This all seems to point to a sort of encompassing violation of consumer law and Seagate’s warranties. Speaking of ‘place,’ this lawsuit is only for the U.S. With numbers like that, it’s not hard to see why a lawsuit is taking place. One of the problems seems to be, too, that the drives provided to consumers as replacements were indeed failing at no lower rate. If those numbers make little sense to you, just consider that it’s an annualized rate of failure, so if a drive fails in under a year that’s 100%, and if its replacement also fails within a year, it’s 200%. We’re talking about an extremely high failure rate here, even higher than 100%, and in some cases above an astonishing 200%. The Seagate Barracuda drives were among the very least reliable drives according to their tests and data from a collection of nearly 50,000 drives. So what’s going wrong and to what extent? Well, ‘reliability’ as a term is a little bit vague, but the numbers provided by Backblaze are anything but. In fact, if you have any Seagate drives, it would seem pertinent to do so. This particular lawsuit is based upon the reliability of the 3TB variants like the Barracuda 3TB HDD, and the Backup Plus 3TB HDD, so if you have those, it would seem wise to take necessary precautions at this time, even if to-date you’ve had no problems.

Seagate is a popular name in the storage game, and many of us have, or still currently use, their products so this could potentially directly affect you. So it’s concerning then to find out, as reported by TechSpot, there’s a class action lawsuit being filed against Seagate for rather severe reliability problems. Reliability is king when it comes to storing your images, your bread and butter. It’s why we spend so much time and part with hard earned greenbacks on redundancy measures in some form or another.

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I've yet to find a video showing how to shuck these drives without breaking any of the clips btw.If I were to ask you what your fears are in photography, what would they be? Let’s set aside the genre-specific issues for a moment, and if we do so, I would be comfortable putting my money where my mouth is by suggesting a hard drive failure is going to be on that list…maybe right near the top. It probably will only have the warranty of 1 year that the external enclosure has, and worse, voids it the minute you shuck it.

Just wanted to spread awareness in case people were over the moon with the recent $199.99 deal from NE/B&H/Adorama. My drive was made in 2021 if that helps anyone.

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They now tag their internal serial drives to external cases it seems. Upon writing to customer support asking about the warranty information I was told it is immediately void because it's been opened and removed from the external enclosure.

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This is for the serial number of the drive itself, not the enclosure. I had a different message on mine pop up this morning. I know many of you wrote that your serial number from your shucked Seagate Expansion drive had years of warranty according to the website ( ).