Back in January, I wrote about how two drives had failed, one brand new Western Digital and one 10 or 11 month old Seagate. I mentioned how the Seagate replacement was a refurb, and I wasn’t thrilled about that.
Well, one of my Seagate drives just started throwing dozens of SMART errors, and freezing up the computer. I’ve filled out an RMA, but I’m 90% 100% sure the drive that failed was the damn refurb that they sent me two months ago. I’m tempted to rip them both out and buy some new Western Digitals or Hitachi drives.
Update: I pulled out the bad drive, and sure enough it has the Seagate label that says “Certified Repaired HDD” and my label that says “Installed 23 Jan 2014”. So way to go, Seagate, you repaired the drive well enough to last almost 46 whole days. Better luck next time.