Seagate 7200.11 1TB HD Failure

[172.com]

Damnit! About 600GB of data on there and I get this.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/16/barracuda_failure_plague/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/18/barracuda_firmware_upgrade_and_recovery/

Anyone else had this? Did the firmware upgrade solve the issue?

 

[Brooko]

Pisser, its always tedious when that happens and your favorite bluies are gone for good! I just ordered one of these, not arrived yet but think I might pay the extra tenner and get a WD one looking at the big red map.

 

[172.com]

Bummer of it is, I'm sure I read that around the time it came out, but forgot all about it as I was going to check mine wasn't one of the problem ones.

 

[172.com]

Well as I pretty much expected the upgrade didn't work as it couldn't detect the HD properly.

 

[TimMB]

Ouch! By default I do not buy Seagate, they've always been trouble and Maxtor as well which iirc they were bought by Seagate.

Western Digital every day of the week, hope you get it sorted.

 

[Gareth]

Yeah Seagate are toss, Maxtor as well, a colleague bought in 3 1TB Maxtor HDDs and they are all broken.

 

[TimMB]

^^lol pathetic isn't it. If a hard drive goes at our place you can almost garantee it's going to be a Maxtor. Though we haven't had a failure in a long time, probably because there are no longer anymore Maxtors in our computers.

 

[oska]

Never had trouble with Maxtor. For this very reason I never buy massive drives. It's risking too much.

 

[KDF]

The problem isn't buying massive drives, its having a good backup plan !!

At the very least, buy two and set up a raid 1 mirror, or 3 and setup raid 5, or 4 and RAID10/6 etc. It's unfortunate that you got one of those dodgy seagates though. I just got 3 1TB WD Caviar Black.. quite nice acutally.

 

[172.com]

Ouch! By default I do not buy Seagate, they've always been trouble and Maxtor as well which iirc they were bought by Seagate.

Western Digital every day of the week, hope you get it sorted.

I had the Seagate and the maxtor 200gb, which I'm on right now, in the same machine, never had a problem with maxtor before personally.

Yeah Seagate are toss, Maxtor as well, a colleague bought in 3 1TB Maxtor HDDs and they are all broken.

We had a s**t-load of Maxtor failures with a batch we bought at work, the fun part was knowing they'd go and guessing when lol.

The problem isn't buying massive drives, its having a good backup plan !!

At the very least, buy two and set up a raid 1 mirror, or 3 and setup raid 5, or 4 and RAID10/6 etc. It's unfortunate that you got one of those dodgy seagates though. I just got 3 1TB WD Caviar Black.. quite nice acutally.

I have a WD in my old machine which is still going nicely, only 80gb though lol.

I know what you mean about a good backup plan, but honestly in the past 10+ years, I've backed up lots and never actually needed to, so I stopped bothering and I can't be arsed to shell out money to raid them when I've had such little fuss. Also, if anything has gone such as the O/S I've always managed to get the files anyway.

Just unfortunate in this case that the HD is locked unless I do this.

However, I got this email back from Seagate:

Thank you for contacting Seagate Technical Support.

A firmware issue has been identified that affects a small number of Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 hard drive models which may result
in data becoming inaccessible after a power-off/on operation. The affected products are Barracuda 7200.11, Barracuda ES.2 SATA, and DiamondMax 22.

From your failure description, it appears that your drive has been affected.
Although we cannot be 100% sure without looking at the drive, assuming this is the case, we can reset the drive, flash new firmware, and your existing data will not be affected.

This work is being conducted by "i365" on Seagate's behalf.

Please contact i365 at 020 7432 4619.
When you speak with their agent, tell them you would like to recover your files and your Seagate Case Number is 00387295.
You will be asked to fill out an online form and then your drive will be picked up, repaired, and returned.

We do apologize for this inconvenience and promise to get your drive back to you as quickly as possible.

 

[Daz]

The problem isn't buying massive drives, its having a good backup plan !!

At the very least, buy two and set up a raid 1 mirror, or 3 and setup raid 5, or 4 and RAID10/6 etc. It's unfortunate that you got one of those dodgy seagates though. I just got 3 1TB WD Caviar Black.. quite nice acutally.

Please, can I go into my "RAID is not a backup" speech? Pleeeeeeease? :rasp:

...

I wouldn't like to think about the 600GB-worth content that disk may have in your hands.... :dead::nono::rasp:

 

[172.com]

Just had my first Windows 7 bluescreen

Anyways, annoying thing is, I regulary burn contents of the HD to DVD, but because the drive is so mahoosive I got lazy lol. Still I should get it all back for free

600gb of equates to a lot of ASCII pr0n.

Oh and I'll also tell you the really annoying thing about all this. I booked this week as a holiday as I'm working on a personal project and wanted to get a good head of steam up, waste of holiday time now .

 

[172.com]

FFS. Now the 200GB I had in there has failed! The failboat has definitely come into the habour.

I'm now on an old WD 80GB IDE. After this all I have is a 40GB Maxtor IDE.

I'm glad windows 7 is fast and easy to setup!

 

[KDF]

Please, can I go into my "RAID is not a backup" speech? Pleeeeeeease? :rasp:

No you may not.








Besides it does provide redundancy and that is about as far as you need to go for home users. Offsite backups are a bit overkill unless you data is THAT important.

 

[172.com]

Besides it does provide redundancy and that is about as far as you need to go for home users. Offsite backups are a bit overkill unless you data is THAT important.

p**n is serious business.

 

[KDF]

p**n is serious business.

/obligatory

"There's no business like pron business..."

 

[sn00p]

/obligatory

"There's no business like pron business..."

I expected better from you!

It's pr0n.

 

[172.com]

Hi snoop.

 

[Dblock]

Damnit! About 600GB of data on there and I get this.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/16/barracuda_failure_plague/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/18/barracuda_firmware_upgrade_and_recovery/

Anyone else had this? Did the firmware upgrade solve the issue?

Put into a freezer bag, leave in the coldest bit for 1day then take out plug in and back your stuff up.

Also if all your hard drives have failed sounds like bad cooling.

 

[172.com]

It's not overheated, I know many that have died that way at work, but this is due to it getting in a locked state during power off/on. Needs a reset.

 

[rctempire]

Well at least its in the news now. I had 4Tb drives from Seagate, exact same model, all failed. was really enjoying vista, then "error no OS found" Emm what? It worked two seconds ago. Drive had died.
Spoke to seagate, new drive arrived. New drive in, formatting away, crash, die, click click click click. Feck.
2nd drive - yay, installed in, loaded up vista, installed drivers, moved data to it. Switched pc off, back on, click click click. No OS found.
3rd drive - Not happy with seagate, worked for one week, died, click click click. FUCCCCCCKKKKK offffff.
PC sat there for two weeks doing he haw, sent drive away. Tried new drive, died after two weeks.
Got money back.
Bought a WD, still working since April.

Wooooo...

 

[172.com]

Sounds like fun!

I've just come back from buying a 1TB WD.

 

[Revels]

I think mines Seagate.

You're worrying me that it might die Time to buy another I think.

 

[172.com]

If you have the dodgy drive just update the firmware. That solves the issue. Don't forget to backup first incase you c**k it up