Fail! Not Suitable for Laptop Use.

Hello, I just want to start off my first technical post about something I found very odd. I picked up a seagate hard drive from a local computer shop yesterday and found this at the top of the sticker:

"NOT SUITABLE FOR LAPTOP COMPUTER USE"

Click on the picture and see for yourself... I was just .. stupified!

Well Geeze, a laptop drive that you can't put in a laptop?

That's like building a car that can't be driven.

As for Seagate, it looks like they are having other huge problems on their own with their barracuda models where they are failing by what seems like the thousands.

A limited number of Seagate hard drives from the following families could potentially become inaccessible when the host system is powered on:

Barracuda 7200.11
DiamondMax 22
Barracuda ES.2 SATA

Firmware Recommendations for Barracuda 7200.11, ES.2 SATA, and DiamondMax 22 Drives [207931]

At first Seagate offered assistance with data recovery. Way to go Seagate for taking responsibility by saying:

"There is no data loss associated with this issue, and the data still resides on the drive. But if you are unable to access your data due to this issue, Seagate will provide free data recovery services. Seagate will work with you to expedite a remedy to minimize any disruption to you or your business."

Now it just says...

"In the unlikely event your drive is affected and you cannot access your data, the data still resides on the drive and there is no data loss associated with this issue."

No data loss - we can only hope.

Wow.. Drives that don't go in machines and the ones that do - get bricked.

One word.

Fail.

Oh and since I'm at it, don't forget this one.

In 2007 - The manufacturing flaw in Seagate models ST96812AS and ST98823AS,commonly found in notebooks such as Apple's MacBook or MacBook Pros

What can I say, you keep making them and I'll keep fixing em.