I can understand your anger over data-loss; it's happened to me in the past. Redundancy is the only solution, since all brands fail.
For those of you seeking to punish Seagate, have you considered actually helping them solve the problem???
Of all the people complaining here, fewer than 10 actually posted their drive info. Those claiming to have purchased them in quantity included absolutely no information on which lot their drives came from or how they were used.
These forums could actually help drive-buyers, but you are just using them to complain!
Seagate sells more than 50M drives per quarter. If the 2GB Green sold 100K units, then the published failure rate predicts over 300 failures. We have seen maybe 20 unique complaints here. If they sold 1M units, then there should be over 3000 failures under perfectly normal circumstances.
Having read this thread for my own education, I'm still going to buy 1 or two of these drives for great value. Using redundancy, I can make use of Seagate's RMA service without losing my precious data.
tl,dr;
If you are upset about what happened, help other buyers and include your drive's info!!!!!
(part #, batch #, OS, controller/chipset, RAID?)
