| Thread Tools |
5th November 2008, 17:42 | #1 |
Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
Posts: 79,020
| 1.5TB Barracuda users complain of random freezes Seagate's 1.5TB Barracuda 7200.11 hard drive didn't particularly enthrall us when we reviewed it last month, but we didn't run into show-stopping problems on our Windows XP-powered test rig. Judging by several forum threads—including an eight-page discussion on Seagate's own support forums—users of Linux, Mac OS X, and even Windows Vista aren't so lucky. The starter of the Seagate forum thread, who identified himself as Nick, said his Ubuntu 8.04 PC started suffering intermittent 30-second freezes after he upgraded his mirrored RAID setup with two 1.5TB Barracudas. "Each time it freezes the kernel log indicates an error 'ata frozen', 'resetting' and the command looks to be a flush-cache-to-disk command," he explained. A good number of other users replied complaining of similar problems, and by sound of it, the freezes typically occur when streaming recorded TV shows or movies and transferring data to or from the Internet at slow speeds (70-100KB/s). One responder's log suggests RAID controllers mark freezing drives as faulty and disable them, too. Nick claimed he was able to work around the issue by turning off write caching, but unsurprisingly, someone else reported a significant performance drop after trying that solution. http://techreport.com/discussions.x/15837
__________________ |
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Noctua provides free NM-A90 Upgrade-Kit for AMD users | jmke | WebNews | 0 | 1st April 2010 08:35 |
A quick look at Seagate's 1.5TB Barracuda firmware update | jmke | WebNews | 0 | 16th January 2009 18:33 |
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB Hard Disk | jmke | WebNews | 0 | 2nd January 2009 09:16 |
Seagate offers fix for 1.5TB Barracuda freezes | jmke | WebNews | 0 | 26th November 2008 16:15 |
1.5TB Barracuda freezes: Seagate speaks out | jmke | WebNews | 0 | 10th November 2008 18:18 |
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB hard drive | jmke | WebNews | 0 | 22nd October 2008 13:54 |
Seagate's 1500Gb (1.5Tb) Drive Spotted at €209 | jmke | WebNews | 0 | 29th July 2008 16:14 |
Seagate Barracuda ES 750GB Hard Drive Review | piotke | WebNews | 0 | 18th September 2006 22:52 |
Seagate Barracuda ES hard drive | jmke | WebNews | 0 | 12th September 2006 00:11 |
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 750GB: Size Does Matter | jmke | WebNews | 0 | 18th May 2006 17:05 |
Thread Tools | |
| |