[Joker_vD]

> Why is it always seagate when there's something wrong with HDDs?

Since you can't make an "X-gate" name for a scandal out of the Seagate's name, they can afford more bad publicity than other hard drive manufacturers. Truly an ingenious branding strategy.

[PaulHoule]

Circa 2001 or so I bought about 5 Maxtor drives that all went bad in a year and I wasn't the only one. I never bought another Maxtor drive again.

On the other hand, I've owned probably 20 Seagate drives and had maybe 1 fail, so I see them as a partner as much as a aprt.

[kalleboo]

Seagate acquired Maxtor and that's when people started complaining about Seagate reliability