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Old 14th January 2009, 19:06   #1
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Default Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 drives failing

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 at boot detection. Essentially the drive will be working as normal for a while, then - out of the blue - it'll brick itself to death. The next time you reboot your computer the drive will simply lock itself up as a failsafe and won't be detected by the BIOS. In other words, there's power, spin-up, but no detection to enable booting.

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/...200-11-failing
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Old 15th January 2009, 09:36   #2
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That's the same problem I have with my 7200.10 750 GB.

Was the drive used in a LaCie d2 Quadra 750 GB and it started acting up.

Now I'm not even sure the drive will spin.

My brother had a 1 TB LaCie Quadra v2 which shortly after landing in RMA at LaCie started working too, but here, it was a WD drive.

But all in all, I'm done with LaCie and Seagate. Seen soo many drives from both brands fail lately I can't trust them anymore.
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I stopped using Seagate a while ago once I realised how hot they run in comparison with WD & Samsung. The price difference was also a factor.

Glad I made that decision.
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