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. 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.
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