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 |
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. |
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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