-> I don't know how about 20 years old seagates, but those that are sold here
-> today are total crap. Actually most stores simply stopped selling them, because
-> of really high failure rate while the drive is still in his guarabtee period.

 That has to be due to Handiling during shipment or packaging. While
segates are not as favored as they onece were they are not al lthat bad
either here in the US
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