I lost 2 of these I put on my Airport for time machine backups of the house macs. Upgraded to 4 gig models. But that certainly explains it. I was really pissed at the time because in all of history Ive lost only 3 or 4 other drives to actual physical failures, and 1 or 2 of those were SCSI drives it was so long ago.
I’m not surprised, they’re Samsung disks (Samsung owns Seagate). Someone did a chart how the quality of Seagate drives dropped in the months/years that followed the acquisition.
My experience with Samsung made disks, shortly after warranty expires so do they. Bit like the old IBM deathstars.
Since the term of the deal states that Samsung HDDs will retain their name on the HDDs for 1 year, those HDDs that were bought in 2011, and even 2012, were real Seagate HDDs of their own name. They could not have been Samsung’s.
Not that I like Samsung, I have bad experiences with their products too.