Ha, it's one of the few HDDs that have their own Wikipedia pages [0], and even more so, it's one of the only two Seagate drives [1] - the other was the ST506/ST412, Seagate's first product! It just shows how infamous this 3 TB Seagate drive really is.
Other HDDs on Wikipedia include: IBM Deskstar (equally infamous), and other historical milestones like the DEC RK05 (classic HDD for PDP-8 and PDP-11).
I just hope the upcoming Heat-Assisted (Seagate) and Microwave-Assisted (Western Digital) Magnetic Recording drives won't repeat history.
Had a deathstar before the drives were known to be widely failing.
Decided one day to consolidate my backups from CDR to DVDR. Copied CDRs, deduped the contents and could fit about 15 CDRs worth onto one DVDR. Satisfied, I cut the CDRs and rebooted my system to prepare for a DVD burn.
The drive died on reboot.
Ended up taking a sledgehammer to the drive to get the anger out of my system.
I had a 75GB "Deathstar" at the time and was really worried that it would fail. I was a teenager and couldn't really afford replacing it, nor have good backup solutions.
I accidentally pulled a power pin while removing the molex connector and had to solder on a modified power extension cable.
The drive kept on living for many years and IIRC it never failed while in active use.
Other HDDs on Wikipedia include: IBM Deskstar (equally infamous), and other historical milestones like the DEC RK05 (classic HDD for PDP-8 and PDP-11).
I just hope the upcoming Heat-Assisted (Seagate) and Microwave-Assisted (Western Digital) Magnetic Recording drives won't repeat history.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Hard_disk_drives
[1] Several Seagate product families have their Wikipedia article, but ST3000DM001 and ST506 are the only two specific models.