techreport.com - 11/11/2008
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Last week, we stumbled upon multiple user reports of intermittent hangs with Seagate's 1.5TB Barracuda 7200.11 hard drive. According to folks on the Seagate support forums, the drives randomly freeze for around 30 seconds at a time in Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows Vista. Freezes allegedly occur...
thinkcomputers.org - 11/17/2008
bigbruin.com - 11/18/2008
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bigbruin.com —
If you are looking for an extremely compact
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Agent Go series is definitely worth checking out. While the aesthetics are a strong selling point, Seagate didn't sacrifice the performance in order ...
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tomshardware.com - 11/11/2008
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tomshardware.com —
Last week Tom’s Hardware had covered a bit
about the freezing problems with Seagate’s Barracuda 1.5TB drives....
We would like to update readers with the response that Tom’s Hardware has gotten directly from Seagate. “Seagate is investigating an issue ...
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Seagate Responds to Freezing HDDs
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Anyone here own a 1.5TB Seagate Barracuda 7200.11?
Hardware 2.0 —
... Anyone here own a 1.5TB Seagate Barracuda 7200.11? Yes. Then as an early adopter of 1.5TB drives, you might have just been shot with an arrow in the back … Seagate is investigating an issue where a small number of Barracuda 7200.11 (1.5TB SATA) hard drives randomly pause or hang for up to several seconds during certain write operations. This does not result in data loss nor does it impact the reliability of the drive but is an inconvenience to the user that we are working to resolve with an upgradeable firmware. We are therefore asking customers if they feel they are ...
Seagate responds to 1.5TB HDD freezing issues
PureOverclock.com —
Following intermittent claims of its 1.5TB Barracuda drives freezing, Seagate has acknowledged the issue saying that an upgraded firmware is in the works. [image] We shot off an e-mail to Seagate last week to inquire about these problems. We've now received a response from company spokesman Mike Hall, who's written the following: Seagate is investigating an issue where a small number of Barracuda 7200.11 (1.5TB SATA) hard drives randomly pause or hang for up to several seconds during certain write operations. This does not result in data loss nor does it impact the ...
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