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2012-10-02 01:36 28003126 Anonymous (JPEG.jpg 1024x768 98kB)
Hey, /g/ I bought a seagate drive recently and discovered a massive performance drop with a mountain of corrupted sectors that won't stop appearing. I checked reviews for the specific drive across multiple websites to discover that bad drives were a common issue with DOAs and constant corruption. I checked their website for warranty information, but every time that I try to redeem my warranty, it just comes up as unknown. Besides the obvious assfucking here, how do I avoid this issue again in the future? Are SSDs good? Who's the best manufacture? I think it's obvious that seashit is the worst.

2 min later 28003164 Anonymous
Don't buy seagate.

2 min later 28003166 Anonymous
Halp

3 min later 28003173 Anonymous
>seagate >how do I avoid this issue in the future? don't buy seagate drives, but you already know that. do your research first next time. find some number for seagate support, call them up, get shit worked out, pay $10 to ship it back to them, get a new drive sent to you, drop it on CL/ebay and call it a learning experience.

3 min later 28003175 Anonymous
>>28003164 That'd be a good place to start.

4 min later 28003189 Anonymous
>>28003173 Or I could just run a magnet across it and avoid wasting ten more bucks and some poor soul's patience.

5 min later 28003202 Anonymous
>>28003126 Call them about it asshole. See if you can actually get some resolution before you go online and start shitting all over them. If their system isn't finding your drive then it's possible you got a counterfeit one, in which case you're SOL.

6 min later 28003211 Anonymous
>>28003202 lol

6 min later 28003219 Anonymous
>>28003189 >wasting >you'll recoup 80% of what you paid for the thing >saving people that are dumb enough to buy used hard drives what are you even doing here?

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