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1.5TB Barracuda freezes: Seagate speaks out

Hardware 2.0 found this 11/11/2008 on techreport.com

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...