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Ah Seagate, good memories! In the 90's they had this policy that you can send them a broken HD and they would replace it with a new one. Since they wouldn't ma

Ah Seagate, good memories! In the 90's they had this policy that you can send them a broken HD and they would replace it with a new one. Since they wouldn't make the old version anymore, the new drive would have more capaciy. So at first you could just send them your hard drive and you would get an upgraded back. I was probably not the only one who heard about it, and so they started testing the incoming drives to see if they were really malfunctioning. I once tried to break such a drive. Formatting the hard drive while bashing it on the table. The thing kept going, no problem.

flakes 3y ago
The image in my head of you bashing the harddrive gave me a good laugh!
aftbit 3y ago
My elementary school had a little school supplies store in the school itself. I bought a 4-function calculator for math. Next week, they had an upgraded calculator which showed the inputted formula and supported more functions. The old calculator was gone from the store, but my parents wouldn't give me money to buy the new one. So I took the old calculator apart, disconnected a power wire so it didn't work, and brought it back to exchange for the new one. Sorry school!
ashbee 3y ago
The first PC I built myself in the 90s had a Seagate hard drive. It developed a "click of death" after a few years, a repetitive clicking noise which corresponded with my PC freezing/crashing. I discovered at some point that a few swift kicks to the front of the case would get it going again for a couple of days. This lasted for a good year or two before no amount of kicking would revive it.