I was just trying make a point that Seagate use to be reliable and had good service therefore it was worth the extra money. It doesn't seem worth it to me anymore when every time you get a firmware update you need to ask yourself is this data backed up.

Seagate use to be a respected name, a to many maybe it still is, but I personally no longer feel like taking the risk of losing important data. The only real leg up they had was their 5 year warranty and now they are cutting that back. I was going to purchase a 1 TB drive tomorrow and had already picked a Seagate out....but now....nope. Seagate better get their shit together if they want to stay in the game because there are plenty of no-names that have better reliability and cost far less than them at this point.

This is going to piss off alot of hipsters....

I think they maybe still economically feasible in many regards because if there is one technology that the public and therefore the government is going to be willing to get behind its alternative fuel. The main question is are biofuels still environmentally viable? Currently the answer is no. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/08/science/earth/08wbiofuels.html