Just got home and opened a parcel from a family-in-law member, containing a hard drive pulled from a computer a week ago by their local shop. Drive wasn't reading properly but had heaps of unbacked up data they really didn't want to lose - pictures, correspondence, the usual stuff.
I opened the box and I don't know what made me cringe harder - seeing it was a Seagate Baracuda 1TB 3.5", or that it was in an antistatic pouch, but rattling around totally loose in the box with zero padding or fill whatsoever.
I doubt this one is coming back to us, but let's try anyway.
Dug out my Archgon HDD dock (not pretty, but goes like a shower of the proverbial) and powered it up, and all I'm getting is click... click... click. Hmm.
Pulled the drive out and gave it a single gentle tap on both sides on the desk, back into the dock and power on, and this time it sounds like an episode of Will It Blend overlaid with the sound of a piece of blue metal stuck between a brake rotor and caliper housing.
Family-in-law member has been told (not educated, that would imply they learned something) not to buy Seagate and sent sadly on their way.
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