Drives

Law Firm Announces Possible Settlement for Optical Disk Drive Antitrust Suit

A class-action settlement case has been set up by Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP for owners of optical disc drives manufactured by four electronics companies in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Through litigation, Hagans Berman is in the process of securing settlement payments of $124.5 million from manufacturers Panasonic Corp., Panasonic Corp. …



Seagate Faces Class-Action Lawsuit Over Failure Rates of 3TB Drives

A class-action lawsuit was filed against storage drive maker Seagate today, alleging that certain 3TB models are failing more than they should. The complaint alleged that the drives failed “at an unprecedented rate,” and consumers who bought the defective drives faced broken hardware and significant loss of data. And while Seagate promised purchasers that it would replace the failed hard …