Color me shocked this is a thing. I thought it's been well known for years that Seagate HDDs were to be avoided like the plague if you wanted to retain your data.
There's a reason WD drives cost more.
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/sea...ling,6844.html
http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/16/s...-at-an-alarmi/
Articles from 2009.