Have there been any reports of drives failing AFTER the firmware update? I've updated the firmware on mine, but I'm afraid to trust it. I think I'm going to put it in an external box and use it for a TimeMachine drive on my Mac. At least then, if it fails, it's only taken the backup with it.
Wow that sucks. Getting my new MOBO tomorrow so I can finish the new setup with 2 1tb Seagate barracudas (32MB cache) in raid 0 and I was really excited. Good thing I haven't opened the boxes yet.
Or I could just roll the dice and see if they work. If they don't, class action lawsuit here I come.
Heh, and here I can remember a day when Seagate released an entire batch of SCSI drives with bad spindles. You could reliably predict their failure time within ~3 weeks based on production date.
I bought *8* Seagate 7200.11 1.5 TB models recently to attach to an Adaptec RAID card. After much huffing, puffing, blowing the house down, and firmware updates, it wound up that 1) Adaptec said they don't support this drive on their cards, and 2) Seagate basically told me, "Don't use these drives in a RAID."
@lodleader: I had to download the Newegg patch to get my Seagate 1.5TB drive to stop freezing on me. There's no firmware generally available at Seagates sight. Seagate is the perfect drive company till they have problems then you get to see the really bad side of a company with poor ...down right horrible support.
I'll still go with them chiefly because I have a solution to the known problem with my model and that it's the largest drive money can buy but I seriously wouldn't hesitate to go WD if they can offer superior specs.
The next storage expansion I do will require me to buy 5 drives at once and if I see an alternative, I'll take it; Seagate has burned out all the good will it took them 10 years to build with me.
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Or I could just roll the dice and see if they work. If they don't, class action lawsuit here I come.
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had to be said. sorry seagate, you served me well thus far
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Grrrr....
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-Seagate CEO
[money.cnn.com]
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FAIL SEAGATE!
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I'll still go with them chiefly because I have a solution to the known problem with my model and that it's the largest drive money can buy but I seriously wouldn't hesitate to go WD if they can offer superior specs.
The next storage expansion I do will require me to buy 5 drives at once and if I see an alternative, I'll take it; Seagate has burned out all the good will it took them 10 years to build with me.
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Thing makes some seriously uncool sounding clicking noises.
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Sorry. You got time-delay coal.
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spot on.
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