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theinquirer.net - 1/13/2009

Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 drives failing

— theinquirer.net — SEAGATE'S FLAGSHIP desktop Barracuda 7200.11 drives, in particular the 1TB (ST31000340AS) units, are failing at an alarming... rate and prompting outrage from their faithful customers. A new self-bricking feature apparently resides in faulty firmware ... (more) Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 drives failing

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forums.seagate.com - 1/20/2009

Does the SD1A break 500GB cudas? - Internal (ATA and Serial ATA) drives - Seagate ...

— forums.seagate.com — mine is screwed too. i'm really angry about this - i followed the instructions to the letter... and triple checked my model/serial/firmware to make sure i really needed this. i applied the darn update and now my hd doesnt work. how do i fix this? ... (more) Does the SD1A break 500GB cudas? - Internal (ATA ...

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engadget.com - 1/17/2009

Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 drives said to be failing at an alarming rate

— engadget.com — Rumors flying, sensational headlines, dogs and cats living together. Yes, its another apparent rash of hard drive... failures -- this one centered on Seagate's spacious 1TB Barracuda 7200.11 drives. Apparently, the problem lies in a faulty firmware ... (more) Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 drives said to be failing at ...

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Unusual amount of Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 hard drives dying
Neoseeker News Feed — Data crash Angry reports of premature hard drive death have been troubling Seagate Technology's forums recently. The models most affected seems to be the recent 7200.11 Barracuda desktop drives, with the 1TB ST31000340AS in particular disproportionately dying early."My 4 month old 1TB drive has failed. It started flaking out about a day ago and now my mobo is not recognizing it, windows wont boot with it plugged in. This drive was EXTREMELY important to me, it held all my video editing projects and media, some irreplaceable data. I absolutely need this data at all costs my income depends on it. I'm about to cry," one user -- named 'demoncamber' -- wrote, in the ...

1TB Barracudas failing in droves, users claim
The Tech Report: News — ... , swarms of users have started reporting another problem with a different 7200.11 model. According to a nine-page thread on the Seagate support forums, an abnormal quantity of 1TB 'cudas are failing just months after being purchased . Going by the user complaints, ST31000340AS hard drives running SD15 firmware can fail after three months of use with no warning signs—they just mysteriously vanish from the POST screen after a reboot. In an extreme case, one user posted to say two of six 1TB Barracudas from his three-month-old RAID setup bit the dust, and he returned eight days ...

Are 1TB Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 drives dropping like flies?
Hardware 2.0 — January 16th, 2009 Are 1TB Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 drives dropping like flies? Posted by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes @ 9:38 am Categories: Storage Tags: Seagate Technology LLC , Adrian Kingsley-Hughes Over the past few weeks I’ve heard from a number of 1TB Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 owners who claim that the drives are failing at a far greater rate than would be expected for a desktop hard drive. The problem seems to affect Barracuda 7200.11 ST31000340AS drives (loaded with with firmware level SD15) which were manufactured in Thailand are failing without any prior warning at boot time and locking up permanently. There’s a large thread over on Seagate’s support forum ...

Seagate Barracuda Drives Failing at an Alarming Rate. Are You Affected?
Maximum PC — According to news site The Register , Seagate's 1TB Barracuda hard drives are giving up the ghost "at an alarming rate." Users all across the globe have started complaining of lockups, non-detection in the BIOS, 0GB reported disc size, and other ailments, as reported by The Register and forum threads like the one at MSFN (Microsoft Software Forum Network). If true, the problem appears to affect Barracuda 7200.11 drives made in Thailand (ST3100034AS) with firmware SD15. Users claim the reported failures are higher that what would be considered normal for hard drives, and adding insult to injury, some users are complaining of deleted and edited posts in an 18+ page support ...

Seagate Offers Firmware Fix for All Problematic Barracuda 7200.11 Hard Drives
techPowerUp! — Seagate has issued an official statement today, acknowledging all recent problems with some Barracuda 7200.11 drives. Based on the information posted in the company's forums here, select Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1TB 3.5-inch hard drives made in Thailand, suffer from a firmware issue that bricks the HDDs after a short period of time. After three to five months of normal operation these defective hard drives will suddenly lock-up as a protective measure and prevent the system from recognizing the drive from then onwards. In most cases the information won't be lost, but the drive will be completely useless, changing the drive's electronics won't help much either. ...