techdigest.tv - 1/16/2009
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Hard drives crash from time to time, that's a fact, but it seems that one particular type of Seagate drive is failing en masse, according to online accounts from annoyed customers. The Barracuda 7200.11 1TB drive fails at boot time with a firmware error that locks the drive and makes in ...
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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 ...
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The drives, labeled ST31000340AS and with firmware SD15, seem to be failing at a rate far above average. We talk a lot about backups, using both online solutions and external hard drives, but we know how hard it can be to actually get around to making them. Especially if you haven't yet lost any important data, there's a very strong "it'll never happen to me" voice that can be hard to quiet. Now you might finally have a good reason to take the plunge, especially if you have a 1 TB Barracuda from Seagate, as we're finding reports of dozens of spontaneous drive failures.
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Seagate 1 TB Barracuda users report failures
storage.blogs.techtarget.com 1/16/2009 — More than 20 users have posted to a thread on Seagate’s official Community Forums reporting that their 1 TB 7200 RPM Seagate Barracuda desktop drives have failed. The drives failed soon after purchase, from as little as 2 weeks to as long as ...
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