Seagate admits firmware foul-up

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Seagate admits firmware foul-up
Seagate has admitted that a problem in the firmware of certain Barracuda and DiamondMax drives causes premature death - and has issued a fix.

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Publish Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:05:08 +0000
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[Dr. kitteny berk]

Best bit? the fix is bricking some of the at risk 500gb drives that haven't developed symptoms

[HereComesPete]

I'll stick with samsung and wd thank you very much. B0rken disks are such a pain in the arse*. Even with cover and backup and whatnot it still eats time and patience getting things right after a hdd failure.




*I would assume not as bad as broken glass jars are though.

[Dr. kitteny berk]

I'll stick with samsung and wd thank you very much. B0rken disks are such a pain in the arse*. Even with cover and backup and whatnot it still eats time and patience getting things right after a hdd failure.




*I would assume not as bad as broken glass jars are though.

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[Baliame]

I'll stick with samsung and wd thank you very much. B0rken disks are such a pain in the arse

WD only tyvm. Samsungs usually all went fubar on me after a year or so.

[Dr. kitteny berk]

I've had more WDs die on me than I have samsung, Though I only own 1 samsung, but it's not in a happy place (between 4 WD drives)

[Dave Trouser]

Seagate admits firmware foul-up

Hah, that explains my 7200.11 drives dying. I spent ages trying to convince them it was dodgy firmware, but they denied it of course. Idiots.

[ProfHawking]

*I would assume not as bad as broken glass jars are though.