Seagate ships 1.5 billionth drive, celebrates with giveaway

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captaincranky said:
OK, 3 Hard drives against 1.5 billion sold is unbelievably shabby. The odds of winning are so infinitesimal, it's not worth the personal information you have to give up to enter. I switched to the WD "Caviar Black" drives a while ago, this just makes me want to buy more of them.

I think I know how they could have topped this prize. Why not send the, "lucky winner", on a no expenses paid trip to China, to work in a Seagate factory for a day.

All I had to do was put down my name and email address to write a post, didn't even use my last name. If you win, the only info you will be giving is your address, so they can send you the hard drive. I do agree that the chances of winning will be high but that's with anything you try to win.

 

[captaincranky]

My seagate still has no bads and it's 2-3 years old. Congrats Seagate!

Yeah right, super. The WD "Caviar Blue" OEM drive (160GB OEM), in my Emachines T-5026 is pushing 6, (5 yrs 9 mos), and still going strong. You don't know if your drive is 2 or 3 years old? That's really not long enough to forget when you got it.

All I had to do was put down my name and email address to write a post, didn't even use my last name. If you win, the only info you will be giving is your address, so they can send you the hard drive. I do agree that the chances of winning will be high but that's with anything you try to win.

Listen, any personal info for this nonsense is too much. This "giveaway" is still astoundingly cheesy. It probably cost them more in man hours to announce it, than it did for the HDDs to give away. And they got those drives for manufacturer's cost, which is probably half of dealer cost.

Get back to me when you win. In the meantime, why not try subtracting 3 from 1.5 billion. I think the answer's still 1.5 billion, but I can be imprecise at times.

Do you two have your tickets to China bought yet?

 

[pinya]

congratulations seagate! the last seagate harddrive that i bought was more than 10yrs ago hoping that the prices here in my country would drop, as most retailers here sell wd drives a lot cheaper and have 2 yrs store warranty as opposed to the 1 yr store warranty given

edit: oh and by the way so far i'm still looking to buy at least a 2Tb drive... to replace my very old 250gb sata 1 wd harddrive

cheers

 

[captaincranky]

congratulations seagate! the last seagate harddrive that i bought was more than 10yrs ago hoping that the prices here in my country would drop, as most retailers here sell wd drives a lot cheaper and have 2 yrs store warranty as opposed to the 1 yr store warranty given

cheers

Here in the US of A, Seagate drives sell @ 15 to 20% less than what a comparable WD would bring. This is from Newegg's sale Email prices.

 

[Guest]

Funny.... 1.5 billionth drives sold.....Three for free just for you.... Thank you very much.

 

[spyx]

thats nice i can say congrats, hmm i wonder wat number i was i got one of theres and its been great i got 500gb and then eventually had to get another .....if u guys notice buying 1tb can be for efficient than buying a 500gb from some places so watch out.

 

[bam13]

Very nice, congratulations Seagate!

 

[Zecias]

i doubt anyone here will get it but u might as well try right?

 

[pinya]

Here in the US of A, Seagate drives sell @ 15 to 20% less than what a comparable WD would bring. This is from Newegg's sale Email prices.

prices of seagate are better there.... here it's the other way around....

 

[AnonymousSurfer]

Sign me up! I could use another hard drive!

 

[captaincranky]

Really, people like most of you, are the reason we were able to buy Manhattan from the Indians for a bunch of cheap costume jewelry....!