On Sunday, December 13, 2015 at 6:29:17 AM UTC-8, rangerssuck wrote:

A few years back, I bought 100 seagate barracuda drives. They started failing soon after installation, and at an alarming rate ...
Seagate, Maxtor, Hitachi and Western Digital all told me that they don't have such a product because their marketing people didn't recognize a need for them, and "If it dies under warranty, we'll ship you a refurb." Feh.

It could be worse. At least, their techs get the dead unit to analyze, and its flaws
might inform the next generation hardware design.