Seagate has a pretty bad rep for failures. Depending on who you ask, they’re anywhere from trash to the least reliable major brand.
I sit somewhere in the middle of that tbh. Closer to the trash side since every time I’ve had a Seagate drive in anything, it failed way sooner than what they claim they should, and they tend to fail hard and fast. Not much warning, so if you use them, you damn well better not lag in your backup routine, or you’ll lose data.
For the prices they charge, they should at least be okay compared to other brands.
So, any refurbs they sell have already failed once, or had enough trouble to be sent back. If they couldn’t get it right so often as to be able to sell refurbs in large numbers, I’m pretty damn dubious they actually fixed anything well enough it won’t happen again. And I tink that’s what the other comment meant.
In German the name has been used for a joke. “Sie geht oder sie geht nicht”, it works or it doesn’t work, sounds a lot like Seagate when you pronounce it German.
Seagate has a pretty bad rep for failures. Depending on who you ask, they’re anywhere from trash to the least reliable major brand.
I sit somewhere in the middle of that tbh. Closer to the trash side since every time I’ve had a Seagate drive in anything, it failed way sooner than what they claim they should, and they tend to fail hard and fast. Not much warning, so if you use them, you damn well better not lag in your backup routine, or you’ll lose data.
For the prices they charge, they should at least be okay compared to other brands.
So, any refurbs they sell have already failed once, or had enough trouble to be sent back. If they couldn’t get it right so often as to be able to sell refurbs in large numbers, I’m pretty damn dubious they actually fixed anything well enough it won’t happen again. And I tink that’s what the other comment meant.
Agreed regarding Seagate’s brand perception for consumer HDDs.
I would also not risk buying these refurbs, unless it was literally for something that I didn’t care about.
In German the name has been used for a joke. “Sie geht oder sie geht nicht”, it works or it doesn’t work, sounds a lot like Seagate when you pronounce it German.