"Seagate Barracuda Hard Drives Plagued By Failures" -- Info Week

Looks like not.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/pos...widespread-hd-problems-vows-full-support.html

 

still hanging on holding my breath, its been almost a week on a few of these things... no failures yet... knock on wood...

 

Do you have ones on the list? Seagate has posted a new firmware fix today..

 

If you get this, be sure to keep the box. Seagate has a sucky policy about the shipping box for RMA meeting certain standards... most of us don't have such boxes, so Seagate will send us one for about $20..... cheapshot scam, if you ask me.

 

thanks for the heads up and the return policy I am thinking about returning it today and getting a HD with better reviews.

 

I upgraded the firmware on my Barracuda 7200.11 ST31000340AS drives last night from SD15 to SD1A without any problem.

I would recommend that anyone who has a drive that is affected by the bad firmware upgrade as soon as possible since once the drive experiences the problem it is no longer possible to flash the firmware.

Someone has posted a nice how-to on unbricking your drive if it has gotten into this state; not easy but better than sending it off to some data recovery shop: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=128807

New firmware link: http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207951

 

Installed it... runs cool, 84F, not only quiet but VERY quiet...

HD Tune speeds.. 126/66/103 @14.9ms access.

Nothing to complain about here... unless it breaks, it's a 5-egger in my book.

 

So when do they announce 4 platter 2TB 7200.12 drives? Drool....

 

April-ish they said.

 

You gotta be kidding! This procedure makes "sending it off to some data recovery shop" look really good. :eek: