I t’s too bad she won’t live…
Seagate’s really into privacy. Whenever they’re not busy assembling their drives with oddly shaped fasteners nobody on the planet sells screwdrivers to fit, or skirting anti-trust laws by making sure that no data recovery firm outside of their direct control can even touch one of their mechanisms without voiding all of its factory warranties, they can be found inventing bizarre methods of encrypting their products’ dates of manufacture to prevent you from figuring out how old they are.
Why? My non-actionable hyperbolic opinion is that their drives are absolute crap, and swearing everyone to secrecy is cheaper than countering all that negative P.R. But if the Seagate reputation isn’t enough to convince you to replace your drive, maybe seeing how close it’s getting to its retirement date will.
