There was a company in the 80's that made an interface and they included only Seagate drives for Commodore 8-bit computers. Of course if you had a Commodore and wanted a hard drive, you bought one. They were selling like hotcakes. Then one by one, the Seagate drives failed to spin up. It was a disaster! The company couldn't afford to replace all of those drives and Seagate left them high and dry. I think that company went bankrupted.
The problem was called stiction. And after all of this time, it is still alive and well with Seagates according to DataRecovery.com who sees thousands of failed drives per month. I personally avoid Seagates whenever possible. So I owned very few of them. I did have one in a refurbished HP desktop fail after 45 days. HP only had a 30 day warranty on refurbished and Seagate claimed they offered no warranty on those OEM drives.
I read somewhere that Seagate would know of a problem with some and figured these drives won't last long. Instead of recycling them for parts like they should, they would sell them off without any warranty. You would think all of these failed drives would keep people away from buying them. But it doesn't.
The only WD hard drive that I got burnt on was like 4 of those 80GB 5.25 inch drives. I could get a part number if you want. I still have a few (I pulled them before they failed). They would run for about 5000 total hours and then fail. All of their other drives I trust pretty much.
