That's the wrong message to take away. The right message is: every manufacturer goes through periods of good and bad disks. Don't depend on any drive to be perfect.
The Seagate 3TB were awful, but their 4TB seem to be just fine.
I've had two Seagate drives "fail" recently after <2 months - the drive is fine but the (OEM) USB3 enclosure is dead. No idea who manufactures those for Seagate but I'm not impressed.
Similar experience with WD. I bought a western digital USB drive. It failed, I RMA'd it for a new one. It failed. A year later I bought a bigger one, and it failed after another year.
I cracked open the enclosures and the drives are just fine. I still use them for backups with no errors.
Amazing the 4TB hitachi with twice the platters of the 2TB fail less.
(and I will never buy seagate again for home pc or servers, even before this report I could have told you they are unreliable)