Seagate Ships Virus-Laden Hard Drives (Made in China)

PC World ^ | November 13, 2007 | Robert McMillan

[holymoly]

Note: PC World must be excerpted.

The hard drive maker is blaming an unnamed subcontractor, located in China...

Virus infected HDs. Made in China. Whould'a thunk it? /sarc

[Psycho_Bunny]

OMG....who buys a Seagate HD? lol

[theDentist]

Companies who work on the cheap....

[C210N]

Gone are the days you could obtain a decent HD from Micropolis Corp...

[AFreeBird]

Seagate makes great drives. Maxtor I've had problems with and wasn't thrilled when Seagate bought Maxtor. WD's I've also had problems with.

My Seagate's: still going strong.

[Crazieman]

I have a living 120MB Seagate drive
Of course I don't use it anymore, but it fires up just fine.

[Reaganwuzthebest]

It’s always a good idea to wipe clean any purchased hard drive, whether new or used with something like DBAN.

[Psycho_Bunny]

No...they don't make great drives. They make some drives that don't fail....that's about the best you can say about them.

I've seen 1-month failure rates of Seagate drives in clustered server environments of - literally - 75%. And those were RAID class drives.

They make the worst HD on the planet.

[LexBaird]

On Monday, the Taipei Times reported that Taiwanese distributor Xander International had discovered that 1,800 Maxtor Basics 500G-byte hard drives were affected, all manufactured in Thailand.

May I be the first to say...Thailand!!?

[kalee]

ping

[Red Badger]

PING!........

[Calpernia]

Made in China

[holymoly]

It’s always a good idea to wipe clean any purchased hard drive, whether new or used with something like DBAN.

And for anyone not familiar with "DBAN", Reaganwuzthebest is referring to Darik's Boot and Nuke, a self-contained boot-floppy that can wipe most hard drives.

Particularly useful if you're disposing of, or donating, an old PC, which may have your private information on the HD.

DBAN is free.

[Red6]

There is a reason why things “made in China” are often so cheap.

While we pass laws which firms have to comply with in regards to environmental, safety, social (child/prison labor)....... firms are going to locations that circumnavigate all these standards and and then import their crap onto the shelves at Wal-Mart.

Think about it. Do you really think that much of the IT operation based in India complies with Sarbanes-Oxley?

[Bommer]

Maxtor drive are crap. After my 2nd one crashed and burned, I said never again. I have never had a WD fail on me. I still have 4 gig drive that are running like a champ years later!

[Fire_on_High]

Their older drives used to be great. All of my older, smaller drives except one were Seagates, and they all ended up being replaced over the years due to capacity, not failure.

Every single one of em still works as well as the day I pulled it, but there’s not a lot even I can do with 4 GB anymore.

[Petronski]

Simple rule: repartition and format your new drives before use.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

I’ve never had a problem with Seagate drives. These are Maxtor drives.

YMMV.

[Psycho_Bunny]

Maxtor/Seagate....same difference.

I had two Seagates about 10 years ago that were great....but today, they're just crap.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Maxtor drives=Maxtor design.

You may remember that Maxtor was a kluge of Maxtor and Quantum.

Remember Quantum drives??