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Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 drives failing

Discussion in 'PC Hardware' started by Steve R Jones, 2009/01/13.

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    Steve R Jones

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    Ouch. Hate it when things like this happen:mad:
     
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    Lovely indeed.

    I'm glad I have a Windows Home Server where all my data is backed up daily. The most I ever loose is a days worth of stuff :)
     
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    Steve R Jones

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    And hopefully you aren't using the drives mentioned in your WHS machine;)
     
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    Arie

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    No, but even the WHS machine gets backed up, AND I have an external drive where I use Vista's "Complete PC Backup" to make an image of my drives once a month.
     
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    Well that's good news...I just bought one...LOLOL
     
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    I just returned my drive to the vendor and ate the restock fee. My 500GB-er had a model number and firmware revision that matched the affected drives list. It was the first Seagate I ever owned. Bummer.
     
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    An expensive brick :D
     
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    Yep... :)

    I'm just waiting for it to show up...I bought it from TigerDirect.ca, on a special deal...buy Vista and basically get the HDD for free. I'll have to check the Model number and Firmware version after it arrives.
     
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    Well just hope that it takes more time & by that time [hopefully] Seagate sorts it out.
     
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    Hehe. I found this forum searching for that problem. I sell Seagate drives...and tons of them. I haven't had one fail, but I did have someone come tell me that it's an issue. It seems that drives before December 2008 had the fault. I checked my remaining inventory and *thankfully* they all have the new firmware in them.

    Oddly enough, I sold quite a few in that time period, but none have failed yet. Possibly a random number from a certain line or something? Someone ate too much rice and had to run to the bathroom maybe? :D
     
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    Well I got the HDD in and it looks like I'm OK...my HDD S/N is ST31000333AS and has a Firmware version of CC1F and according to this statement from the Seagate site (Near the bottom)...I'm good to go... :)
    http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207957
     
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    rsinfo

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    Maybe. But I would still be very wary as Seagate did not acknowledge that there was a problem for about 1 month & was very rude to anybody who posted so on their forums, even deleting the posts :eek:
     
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    I checked my model number and it returned nothing. I looked up the drive on their site and couldn't even find the drive listed. ST336032 0AS. ?
     

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