Seagate Hard Disk logistic error?

I have recently lost all my data due to a "logistic error" on my Seagate 120 Gb HD.
One day the computer just froze and on reboot showed that scary blinking question mark inside a file icon. Manuals tell you to reinstall your OS X from scratch, and 8 other steps if this doesn't do - as it didn't. I had to leave my new Macbook on an authorized repair office, which gave the above verdict.
The issue is that this happened exactly 2 days after the Apple warranty had expired. On top of that, the repair office said that only this August in Brasília they had 4 other HDs with the same problem, with total data loss or extremely expensive to recover. All of them are Seagate.
I was so stuck by this - it's my first Mac - that my computer use has halved, going back to my old MS PC. I had backed up my work files but lost all personal data, plus pre-installed apps; I use my Mac suspiciously now, with its new 250 Gb HD, and as a secondary computer instead of my primary one as it was.
Confidence on Mac products has dropped considerably, and I wonder if this problem has happened to other users.
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Same problem here. My daughter already lost 2 weeks of data while I was on vacation and not pushing to plug to the TimeMachine external disk every day. I had to re-install the MacBook after the last Apple update. Shame that the company does not react now and provide a program for customers with MacBooks, Seagate ST98823AS which our out of warranty for just a few weeks now.

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