Seagate, the world's largest producer of hard drive disks, may finally be in trouble in a 10-year-old lawsuit brought against them by Convolve over technologies allegedly stolen.
An ex-Seagate employee has come forward and signed an affidavit claiming that Seagate, despite having a nondisclosure agreement (NDA) with Convolve, ripped off the small company's technology then destroyed evidence ... [ read the full article ]
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Hitachi (formerly the IBM hard drive division) is junk (I've owned 3 Hitachi hard drives and one IBM hard drive...all failed in pretty short order). Seagate has the best warranty (5 years) vs the other big manufacturers and I've never had a single Seagate HD fail on me whereas I *HAVE* had DOA WD's and a WD fail on me that lost me a lot of scanned photos and documents. Every user's experience is different, but saying "Seagate is junk" is not accurate IMO.
If Mr. Galloway knew the technology was derived from meetings with Convolve, it's a bit disingenuous to say that he was deceived by management's failure to tell him it was under NDA. Especially so, since he wouldn't have been allowed to contact Convolve after the meetings (because Seagate's management knew it was under NDA). On technology that complex, not being able to contact Convolve during development of Seagate's own technology should have sent up a red flag. It would have told Mr. Galloway that Seagate had never licensed the technology to begin with.
That said, it's still a smoking gun against Seagate and if true indicates that they did steal the technology.
Originally posted by B33rdrnkr:Seagate is junk anyways!!
i disagree.
my current rig is running two 500GB SATA seagates. and has not let me down in the past 3 years. now when the warranty support is past it's date, they may flip out, but it's not right to say that they're junk. my ps2 has had a 200GB seagate drive in it since 4-5 years ago without failure. now the first seagate i put in it didnt format properly or something stupid, but the second worked like a charm, and has been since then. what happened to the first seagate? data backup drive in an external enclosure.
i've had about 3-4 maxtor 200GB drives go bad on me at different points, and ever since the first 2 WD drives i bought crapped out quickly, i've never bought anther WD ever. i hate even thinking about using them for projects. hitachi/ibm deskstars have a bad rep also. i would rather get seagate and maxtor over any other brand out there. but as iguana said, every experience is different.
