Ahh, I remember this scandal. What's funny is that there were tons of people affected by this from what i recall, because these drives were initially billed as some of the best hardware money could buy.
I actually had one of these disks, and used it as my main system drive for 6 years before finally retiring the entire system.
Yup some of them were fine. It was only certain capacity disks that had the issue. They solved the primary problem eventually. By then the reputation was already tarnished. "Death Star".