tomshardware.com - 1/15/2009
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With the capacity of hard drives breaking the 1-Terabyte barrier and prices being generally low, people are flocking to upgrade their storage. Ranging from home consumers, enthusiasts, system builders, and small to medium businesses, everyone can always make use of more space – but what if that ...
seagate.custkb.com - 1/17/2009
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seagate.custkb.com - 1/22/2009
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theregister.co.uk - 1/16/2009
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Seagate 1 TB Barracuda users report failures
Storage Soup —
... Freezing problems were previously reported for the 1.5 TB version of the 7200.11. Seagate issued a firmware fix for those drives in late November. ...
Seagate Offers Second Fix For Hard-Drive Firmware
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... with complaints that the patch apparently caused the 500 GB Barracuda to stop working. Last week, Seagate said it had isolated the problem that affected the Barracuda drives and other drive lines based on the same platform. The products had been manufactured through December. The latest firmware troubles occurred about two months after the company had problems with its 1.5-TB Barracuda 7200.11, which randomly froze, according to tech site Tom's Hardware. Seagate's product headaches are on top of the company's financial troubles. The company last week said ...
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theregister.co.uk 1/19/2009 — After reports that its 1TB Barracuda drives are failing at an unusually high rate, Seagate says it has isolated a "potential firmware issue" that would seem to be the cause of this worldwide plague. The company will provide a free firmware upgrade for ...
Seagate 7200.11 Drive Failures - Official Answer from Seagate
ubergizmo.com 1/17/2009 — You may have heard about issues with the Seagate 7200.11 hard drives on many sites. We have been in touch with Seagate to gather more information before posting. Seagate has found a "potential issue" and here's their official statement:
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seagate.com 1/8/2009 — Home News Investors Where to Buy Store Buy Now Your Account Login Close Login to Your Account Login Forgot your Password? To view this content, ensure that you are using the latest Flash player and Javascript is enabled. Click here to download the ...
Seagate offers solution to 7200.11 hard drive failure epidemic
obsessable.com 1/18/2009 — A simple firmware update will prevent the failure, but if it's already happened then things get a little more complicated. If you own one of those Seagate hard drives we found out were dropping like flies yesterday, it's possible that you can ...
Seagate Shares Fall on Surprise Management Shift
nytimes.com 1/12/2009 — Just one week ahead of its second-quarter financial report, Seagate, a leading maker of computer hard drives, said that the company’s outspoken chief executive has been replaced. >
Seagate Fix Causes More Problems - Computing News
news.digitaltrends.com 1/22/2009 — Seagate has admitted that a fix for some of its Barracuda disk drives is itself faulty, but says it won't cause a data loss. On Sunday, Seagate issued a firmware update to resolve issues with some of its Barracuda disk drives. Yesterday it issued an ...
Try, try again: Seagate issues a second fix for 7200.11 hard drives
betanews.com 1/22/2009 — Seagate Technologies spokesperson Michael L. Hall gave Betanews an update this afternoon on the company's situation with its Barracuda 7200.11 hard drives, which have been failing in record numbers. Hall acknowledged that some units manufactured up ...
Seagate cuts go deep —
The Register 1/14/2009
3,000 axed - not 800 Going further than its previous 10 per cent US workforce cut targeted by a recent SEC filing , Seagate has made another filing saying 6 per cent of its worldwide workforce will go and executives and other professionals will ...
Seagate to cut 6 pct of global staff —
SFGate: Technology 1/14/2009
Seagate Technology is cutting thousands of jobs and slashing some employees' salaries by as much as 25 percent, the company said Wednesday, a surprise move coming just two days after Seagate changed chief executives and announced it was cutting 800 ...
Seagate to cut 6 percent of workforce —
SFGate: Technology 1/15/2009
Seagate Technology, the world's largest maker of hard drives, said Wednesday it will cut 6 percent of its global workforce and reduce some employees' salaries by as much as 25 percent, as it struggles in a woeful business climate. The announcement by ...
So when did the knives come out at Seagate? —
The Register 1/16/2009
To lose one C-level exec may be regarded as a misfortune... Comment To lose two CxO-level officers in one day is exceptional, even by Seagate standards. Last week's axing of CEO Bill Watkins and the resignation of COO David Wickersham ...
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