"whit3rd" wrote in message
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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.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/3tb-hard-drive-failure/

-jsw