Mmm-hmm...
I'll just say that Seagate drives have failed me far more often than any other spinning rust I've owned, and leave it at that.
Seagate's latest quarterly revenues benefited from an upsurge in disk drive demand – but still declined slightly year-on-year. The biz managed to bank a five-fold increase in profits, though. Revenues for Seagate's first fiscal 2017 quarter, ending September 30, were $2.8bn, a 4.3 per cent decline from the year-ago's $2.92bn. …
We have a stack of refurbished Seagate 3TB spare drives from a lot of 6 that all failed together under what ought to have been pretty mundane circumstances.
These were video surveillance drives, designed for high 24×7 work-load, running in an air-conditioned server room. All failed within a week of each-other.
Hitachi drives take their place now.