ST3000DM001

The failure rates were approximately 5.7 times higher in comparison to other 3 TB drives, for which Seagate faced a class-action lawsuit.

[3] Joel Hruska of ExtremeTech noted that Backblaze was unable to explain the high failure rates of the ST3000DM001 compared to other products.

Hruska provided supplier-change or part substitution, shipping of substandard hardware to increase profits, and Backblaze's use of consumer hard drives in an enterprise environment as possible explanations.

[4] In July 2021, 9to5Mac reported that because the disk was included in the Apple Time Capsule it started to show high failure rates.

[7] Bruno Ferreira of The Tech Report compared the lawsuit with the high failure rates faced by the IBM Deskstar 75GXP and 60GXP hard drives in 2002.

[8] Paul Alcorn of Tom's Hardware argued that Backblaze used the drives in a manner that "far exceeded the warranty conditions" and questioned the "technical merits" of the lawsuit.

Another ST3000DM001 HDD made by Seagate in May 2017 for Apple IMacs (as shown by the black label)
ST3000DM001 as external hard drives in retail packaging
The internals of a different disk model. The parking ramp is the orange part behind the center. When the disk is powered off or in idle, the heads of the disk are parked here