Should Seagate Face Class Action Lawsuit For Locking Terminal?

[Jared]

In my opinion Seagate's lock on the terminal is nothing more than a way to monopolize the recovery of their own drives to their own lab. It's no different than if a car company was to put a lock on the hood of a car so only their service centers could work on the engine.

I'm considering bringing this case to a class action attorney, I've actually dealt with a few of them in the past. Once I even helped to spark a case that cost a big company millions of dollars.

So how many agree this warrants class action action?

 

[pclab]

I don't think so, because it's their product, it's their R&D, so they can keep some things for themselves.
The secret is the key of business...

 

[lcoughey]

It is annoying for data recovery guys, but if Seagate wants to sell a drive where a user can set a password without fear of easy hacking, it is what they have to do.

 

[LarrySabo]

I wouldn't think a class-action suit would stand any chance. As far as I know, they don't warrant that the drive is repairable or the data recoverable and I'm not sure there is legislation that declares that it must be so. To be fit for use, I would think it just has to perform according to spec for the drive warranty period or be replaced if it doesn't. I'd be surprised if the documents that come with the drive say anything about liability for data loss and whether it offers the option to return it for refund if it says they will not be responsible.

 

[Bankole Oladoja]

Seagate HDD is a world brand product. Am actually very surprised seeing Seagate locking up their terminal access, and they ship millions of these Drives world wide, in Nigeria alone their are countless numbers needing this solution for Data Recovery.
In one or two years, the number of drives needing Recovery, mostly the Ultra Slim Models would be too much for their Laboratories to handle, and by so, Seagate would realise how much costumer they would loose in future.
I also see this as a challenge for ACELAB and HDDSURGERY, if they can come up with a solution fast enough.
For now, I always pray these Ultra Slim Models Drive doesn't come in for Recovery.. but they kept coming..

 

[Jared]

It is annoying for data recovery guys, but if Seagate wants to sell a drive where a user can set a password without fear of easy hacking, it is what they have to do.

I would agree with this, except for the fact that they are offering data recovery services themselves. So they are forcing a monopoly upon themselves for the repair of HDDs they manufacture.

 

[lcoughey]

It is annoying for data recovery guys, but if Seagate wants to sell a drive where a user can set a password without fear of easy hacking, it is what they have to do.

I would agree with this, except for the fact that they are offering data recovery services themselves. So they are forcing a monopoly upon themselves for the repair of HDDs they manufacture.

This is assuming that they have a backdoor and it is being provided to the data recovery service division.

 

[Jared]

[post]7602[/post] This is assuming that they have a backdoor and it is being provided to the data recovery service division.

That's exactly what I'm assuming.

 

[Amarbir[CDR-Labs]]

In those drives a 32 letters PSID is printed. What is that?

Wow ,
amazing what has a thread with discussion on lawsuits to do with PSID ? . Atleast think before you post in each and every thread