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Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 drives failing

AMDZone Frontpage found this 1/13/2009 on 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 microcode which will rear its ugly head sometime ...