About 20 years ago I worked for a small storage company, the person that managed the returns of disks form customers was very strongly of the opinion that the odd firmware versions on Seagate drives were returned way more often than the even.
back then working with Seagate drives was a trauma in itself. In 2008/2009, I've setup more than 3000 1 TB Barracuda ES drives; 1800 of them failed in the following 3 years (they came with a 5 years warranty). I stopped keeping track of Barracuda failures at some point.
Unsurprisingly, 14 years later I still wouldn't recommend Seagate drives to anyone.
