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Published 1/18/2009 at The Register
Offers free firmware upgrade, data recovery 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.…
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