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Complaints flood Seagate over hard drive problems
Published 1/17/2009 by lucas_mearian@computerworld.com at Latest from Computerworld
Seagate's largest consumer hard drive, the 1.5TB Barracuda 7200.11, is drawing a lot of complaints from users who say the drive is freezing up or failing. Seagate said it has isolated a firmware issue on the Barracuda and other drives that may be causing problems.
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