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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.

Category: News
Publish Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:05:08 +0000
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Best bit? the fix is bricking some of the at risk 500gb drives that haven't developed symptoms

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.

HereComesPete wrote: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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HereComesPete wrote: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.

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)

News Reader wrote: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.

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