Hopstretch Posted January 16, 2009 Report Share Posted January 16, 2009 Another Deathstar incident? Know we're quite storage-intensive around here, maybe advance warning will save someone's data. Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 drives said to be failing at an alarming rate - Engadget Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBLoudG20 Posted January 16, 2009 Report Share Posted January 16, 2009 My 4x 1TB drives are inside a Drobo, so I'm not too worried. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkam Posted January 16, 2009 Report Share Posted January 16, 2009 I've had 7 of the 1tb seagate drives running in a raid 5 setup for over a year now. Haven't had a single dead drive yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkam Posted January 16, 2009 Report Share Posted January 16, 2009 Seagate offers fix, free data recovery for bricked Barracudas - The Tech Report Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John E Woven Posted January 17, 2009 Report Share Posted January 17, 2009 Damn, I've got 5 of these in a server Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkam Posted January 17, 2009 Report Share Posted January 17, 2009 Yeah in addition to these 7 also have a handful of them in various servers @ work. It's annoying they don't just post up a link to the firmware instead of forcing you to open up a support ticket. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Chalk Posted January 17, 2009 Report Share Posted January 17, 2009 Damn, and I just got two of the 1.5's that are freezing (original story linked me to the story). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkam Posted January 17, 2009 Report Share Posted January 17, 2009 Return them to the retailer if you can, WD has 2TB drives coming out in the next week or two. Should be $199 msrp. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Chalk Posted January 17, 2009 Report Share Posted January 17, 2009 Actually, looking at the article, the firmware update applies to it as well. The problem is that I already installed one, so they might charge me a restocking fee. (newegg) I'll return the other one, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Chalk Posted January 17, 2009 Report Share Posted January 17, 2009 What about externals, will the firmware fix fix externals? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aardvark baguette Posted January 17, 2009 Report Share Posted January 17, 2009 Ive got 3 of the 1TBs in a Drobo, with a 640GB WD too. 1.5TB at the office. No problems yet, but the seagates are quite loud spinning up. The WD drives are much quieter and run much cooler. I've been quite pleased with WD lately, (640GB is fantastic) but I think Im going to hold off on the upcoming 2TB drives, because they are the 'Green' variety, that throttles down RPM from 7200 to 5000 to save energy. Previous iterations of this model have had problems in Raid and Drobo, because they basically turn off too much. I'll wait for reviews, and confirmation that they work in Drobos. (The seagate 1.5tb was originally accepted in Drobo, and could be seen on the "drobulator" page, but they pulled it as an option after the raid problems surfaced). The caviar blacks are what you want, imo. I figure WD will eventually offer a non-green model of the 2TB in caviar black format. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aerius Posted January 17, 2009 Report Share Posted January 17, 2009 Nothing irreplaceable on my 1TB Seagate, though it would be a pain in the ass to re-rip several hundred albums worth of music if the drive goes south. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkam Posted January 19, 2009 Report Share Posted January 19, 2009 Awesome the ISO your supposed to use to boot from and update the firmware. Yeah it doesn't work, crashes at the point when you tell it load the firmware to your drive. Fucking Seagate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkam Posted January 20, 2009 Report Share Posted January 20, 2009 So shortly after my previous post Seagate released a new version of the firmware. It apparently works on the 1TB drives but bricks the 500gig drives. Seagate has since pulled the firmware: "Note: This file has been temporarily taken offline as of Jan 19, 2008 8PM CST for validation." Validation my ass it's more like "oops we forgot to test this on more than one drive" I will never buy another Seagate SATA drive again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xand1x Posted January 21, 2009 Report Share Posted January 21, 2009 It's finally paying off to be a Western Digital storage snob! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aardvark baguette Posted January 21, 2009 Report Share Posted January 21, 2009 I will never buy another Seagate SATA drive again. The quality torch seems to shift back and forth every few years, but there's definitely an awful lot of people who are no longer Seagate diehards. Its been a little while in the making, but the 5 year warranty no longer instills blind confidence in the brand anymore. A warranty is nice, but it doesnt get your data back. Ever since the 640GB AAKS drive from WD, I've considered myself a WD convert, more or less. Although I still wouldn't touch their external drives with a ten foot pole. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Looser101 Posted January 21, 2009 Report Share Posted January 21, 2009 Very interesting info from an insider. I'm glad I didn't panic and brick my 500's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkam Posted January 21, 2009 Report Share Posted January 21, 2009 The quality torch seems to shift back and forth every few years, but there's definitely an awful lot of people who are no longer Seagate diehards. One of the annoying things is that despite this firmware debacle it probably won't hurt their business all that much. They still sell a shitload of drives to OEM's who don't mind RMA'ing them continually. And in the enterprise market, until SSD's get cheaper the Seagate 15k rpm SAS drives are still king. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
penger Posted January 22, 2009 Report Share Posted January 22, 2009 The quality torch seems to shift back and forth every few years, but there's definitely an awful lot of people who are no longer Seagate diehards. You're probably right. I used to be a WD fan until 2 of their drives failed on me and 2 more at worked died... I went Seagate, but now they're going through issues of their own. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grawk Posted January 22, 2009 Report Share Posted January 22, 2009 As prices drop, so does quality, basically. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkam Posted January 22, 2009 Report Share Posted January 22, 2009 They finally released a working firmware fix today. I've installed it on a bunch of drives at work today and they've all updated correctly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pompon Posted January 31, 2009 Report Share Posted January 31, 2009 I have 2 seagate 1tera ... Both have the issue with the buffer ... my windows freeze 45 sec time to time the time the buffer have time to empty. SOmetimes my windows completely crash. I will wait till seagate will release a fixed version and I will send them my fault hd for the new version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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