Hagens Berman: Consumers File Expanded Seagate Class-Action Lawsuit
February 05 2016 - 3:43PM
Business Wire
Updated complaint details massive Seagate data storage failures
in more states
Purchasers of defective Seagate hard drives in California, New
York, Florida and South Carolina filed an expanded class-action
lawsuit against Seagate Technology (NASDAQ:STX), stating that the
data storage company’s 3TB hard drives failed at exceptionally high
rates, in violation of consumer laws, according to Hagens Berman
and Sheller P.C., law firms representing affected consumers.
The expanded suit, filed on Feb. 5, 2016 in the U.S. District
Court for the Northern District of California, states that
consumers have unexpectedly lost massive amounts of data, as
Seagate’s hard drives failed to live up to the advertised promises,
violating consumer laws and Seagate’s own warranties after
delivering replacement hard drives that were also faulty and led to
data loss.
“We’ve heard from over a thousand consumers since we filed our
suit against Seagate. There has been an outpouring of concern
across the country from those who lost irreplaceable data and
hundreds of dollars due to Seagate’s defective drives and
unreliable replacements,” said Steve Berman, managing partner of
Hagens Berman. “We’re continuing to expand our investigation into
Seagate’s widespread sale of faulty hardware and look forward to
finding out more from those who have been affected.”
If you purchased Seagate’s Barracuda 3TB Hard Disk
Drive, Desktop HDD 3TB, Backup Plus 3TB External Hard
Disk Drive, GoFlex 3TB External Hard Disk Drive, or
another Seagate hard drive with model number ST3000DM001, you may
be entitled to damages including replacement costs and damages from
loss of data and data recovery expenses. Contact Hagens Berman’s
legal team about the class-action lawsuit against Seagate.
“Consumers’ complaints are revealing more evidence that
Seagate’s hard drives are irresponsibly faulty,” Berman said. “This
poses a tremendous risk for anyone – from the photographer who
depends on reliable data storage, to the family hoping to safeguard
records and other sensitive personal information.”
The suit states, “Defendant marketed – and continues to market –
the Drives as innovative, fast, powerful, reliable, dependable, and
having extremely low failure rates. The Drives were not, however,
reliable... Rather, they were defective and failed prematurely at
spectacularly – and in many respects unprecedentedly – high rates.”
Consumers report them failing sometimes even days after their first
use.
Consumers’ Massive Data Loss
The expanded suit details purchasers’ massive data loss due to
Seagate’s defective hard drives. One plaintiff, a New York state
resident, lost more than eight TBs of his “life history,” including
family photos, tax information and his father’s irreplaceable
childhood artwork due to his faulty Seagate hard drives.
He bought four Seagate hard drives after thoroughly searching
for a dependable storage solution, the complaint states. All four
drives failed at various times while under warranty, and Seagate’s
replacement was also not reliable.
Another named plaintiff in the expanded suit purchased eight new
internal Barracuda drives in 2013. Four of them suffered
catastrophic failures by early 2014, and the first failure occurred
within 90 days after purchase, according to the complaint. He
returned the drive to Seagate for warranty replacement, and shortly
before he received the replacement, another drive failed. One of
his replacement drives failed approximately six months after
receipt, and shortly thereafter another drive incurred a
catastrophic failure, the suit states.
He lost a massive amount of personal data, including large
archives of family photos dating back to 2002 and had to pay
approximately $2,800 for a company to recover his data.
A third plaintiff purchased a GoFlex in California in 2013,
which failed only about six months after purchase. The warranty
refurbished replacement he received from Seagate failed a couple of
months after he received it.
Find out more about the Seagate lawsuit.
About Hagens Berman
Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP is a consumer-rights
class-action law firm with offices in 10 cities. The firm has been
named to the National Law Journal’s Plaintiffs’ Hot List eight
times. More about the law firm and its successes can be found
at www.hbsslaw.com. Follow the firm for updates and news
at @ClassActionLaw.
About Sheller, P.C.
Sheller, P.C. is a preeminent consumer protection class action,
product liability, and qui tam whistleblower law firm. For over 35
years, the firm’s attorneys have aggressively represented victims
across the country in class action lawsuits and cases involving
defective products, drugs and medical devices, consumer fraud, and
corporate wrongdoing. More about the law firm can be found at
www.sheller.com.
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