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seagate.custkb.com - 1/17/2009

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— seagate.custkb.com — Firmware Recommendations for Seagate Drives [207931] Subscribe Back Table Of Contents FAQ FAQ Also Viewed Does my... drive need a firmware update? [206091] Barracuda 7200.11 SATA models with firmware SD04 or SD14 [203791] Where can I get a driver for ... (more) Seagate Knowledge Base

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seagate.custkb.com - 1/22/2009

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— seagate.custkb.com — Firmware Recommendations for Barracuda 7200.11, ES.2 SATA, and DiamondMax 22 Drives [207931] Subscribe Back Table Of Contents... FAQ FAQ How do you rate this document? Poor 1 2 3 4 5 Outstanding (more) Seagate Knowledge Base

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theregister.co.uk - 1/19/2009

Seagate isolates 'potential' Barracuda flaw • The Register

— theregister.co.uk — 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 ... (more) Seagate isolates 'potential' Barracuda flaw • The Register

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Are 1TB Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 drives dropping like flies?
Hardware 2.0 — ... about this issue, along with another one om the MSFN forum . So far no fix has surfaced and switching the PCB for one from a functioning drive doesn’t work either. Owners are, as you can imagine, unhappy about this issue. They are also unhappy because Seagate is replacing defective drives with one of a similar model and using the same firmware, which they claim makes the replacement drive vulnerable to the same failure. At first I was skeptical about this problem, but after reading the forums, checking out the review sites and speaking to people who have suffered at the hands ...

Seagate Censoring Posts About Barrucada 7200.11 500GB Drive Failures [Seagate]
Consumerist — ... 7200.11 500GB hard drive failures, and the company is censoring them. While Seagate has issued a firmware upgrade, it doesn't work if your drive has already been affected, like reader Danny, who just lost all his research material and papers for school. According to some posts on MSFN , moderators on the official Seagate forums are deleting user posts about the issue, and even going so far as to disabling links made on the Seagate forums to posts on other forums about the issue. Danny's letter, inside... Danny writes: Hard drive manufacturer Seagate has a series of ...

Seagate 500GB Barracuda HDDs having high failure rates
TG Daily — ... written by one its readers, named Danny, which exemplifies the issue. Danny began a thread on www.msfn.org which also shows some potentially compelling data. Post #6, for example, shows two chart outlining the drive's assembly date, purchase date and failure date. Of the 47 failures listed in the top chart, 45 of them failed between November 12, 2008 and today, as is visible by the yellow triangles appearing between "12-11-08" and "20-02-09". A scaled version of the chart as it appeared at the time of this writing appears here: ...