Seagate Faces Class Action Lawsuit Over 3TB Hard Drive Failures

The Seagate Barracuda 3TB Hard Disk Drive (HDD) has been one of those drives that many enthusiasts know to avoid. Years ago BackBlaze had an intersting blog post about the reliability of hard drives and had enough drives in the sample group to show that some drives failed at a significantly higher rate that others. The same company published an update in Q3 2015 that showed the failure rates of the 49,056 hard drives that they were using in the Backblaze data center. The company had over 4,200 Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB drives and they found that they drives had a failure rate of nearly 30% for the recorded period of time.

It appears that enough consumers aren’t happy with the reliability of Seagate’s hard drives and have filed a an update against the company in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The group is alleging that their hard drives “failed to live up to the advertised promises” and “failed at exceptionally high rates, leaving consumers with broken hardware and significant loss of data.” The suit also alleges that replacement drives sent to consumers after an original drive failure were also faulty and unreliable, violating consumer law and Seagate’s drive warranties. Ouch!

Anyone who has had a Barracuda 3TB Hard Disk Drive, Backup Plus 3TB External Hard Disk Drive or another Seagate hard drive with model number ST3000DM001 is encouraged to contact Hagens Berman and join the class action suit.