Bought a Seagate FreeAgent Go external drive for well over $100 last year, and it died for no good reason.

All my personal information is on there. Seagate says their Warranty does not include data recovery -- but an0ther company they own, i365, will help for over $700, minimum!

This has to be a scam.

Why should we pay good money for a shoddy product, and then have to shell out about 10 times as much to recover the data when it fails?

What a way to make money. This is criminal.