CHECK your SEAGATE drives!!

diroga · 01-20-2009, 05:24 AM

I found about this today at work. I bought two 500Gb drives and they are both half full now. I havent tried the firmware upgrade yet.

sup2jzgte · 01-20-2009, 05:46 AM

You scared me for a second there, I just bought 4 500Gig Seagate drives, but thankfully my model number is not listed.

Bootup05 · 01-20-2009, 06:32 AM

Seagate firmware update bricks 99.9% 500 GB 7200.11 Barracudas

Link

**mep916** · 01-20-2009, 06:53 AM

There is a fix for it though.

http://techreport.com/discussions.x/16246

**DCIScouts** · 01-20-2009, 07:55 AM

Wow, this might explain why we've been getting quite a few of them returned defective recently...

SSMUFF · 01-20-2009, 03:39 PM

Tough love for seagate. I will stick to WD for now.

EGS · 01-20-2009, 03:49 PM

Shit, of course my hard drives are listed in there, but I don't have any problems. Do I still have to upgrade firmware? I don't know how.

**Cromewell** · 01-20-2009, 04:22 PM

Unless you are experiencing the problem described in the fix I wouldn't upgrade it.

**mep916** · 01-20-2009, 05:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by EGS

Shit, of course my hard drives are listed in there, but I don't have any problems. Do I still have to upgrade firmware? I don't know how.

I never do. You should if there's an important fix. Flashing the firmware on a HD is similar to BIOS flash, I believe.

Twist86 · 01-20-2009, 05:55 PM

Man I so thought my drive was posted...

last 4 digits didn't match but boy was I having a "SOB" moment for second.

01-20-2009, 05:24 AM	#1 (permalink)
diroga Platinum Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 962	CHECK your SEAGATE drives!! http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/cr...p?DocId=207931 I found about this today at work. I bought two 500Gb drives and they are both half full now. I havent tried the firmware upgrade yet.

01-20-2009, 05:46 AM	#2 (permalink)
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