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Seagate's Barracuda 7200.11 drives failing at alrming rate?

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nosh:
I'm running two of these for around four months now, as my primary and mirror data drives.  :'(
Picked them because they were slightly faster than most of the other 1TBs.


According to data recovery experts Seagate has diagnosed the problem and issued a new firmware to address it. However, drives that have already been affected can't have the firmware applied to them due to their locked-down status.
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Looks like I've got some work to do. Thanks for the heads up, mouser!

a_lunatic:
Well I got 3 Barracuda 7200.11 ST3500320AS drives & have had problems ever since using them like random bsod's that are never the same so I think they must be the problem.  >:(

I did a search but couldn't find anything so is there a new firmware out for them as the one's I got have SD15.

gpetrant:
My info is that the problem(s) resides mainly with their 7200.11 series drives.  The 7200.10 seem solid.  I've been using two of their SATA 300 7200.10 (320 GB each) for over a year now, and am very satisfied with their performance.  Plus a 5 year warranty makes them even more attractive.

Related to this topic: the one and greater TB drives are a natural progression, but are they not headed for extinction in the consumer market?  I know that so-called 'cloud computing' is a bit over-hyped, but for pennies a month, I can store GBs of stuff on Amazon's hard drives through their S3 service.  The beauty of that solution: I don't need anything bigger than a 500 Gig drive to easily accommodate all my software as well as most frequently accessed data.  The rest (especially redundant backups) can be warehoused off site (which is advantageous because a physical catastrophe like fire, flooding, or theft, could wipe out all your backups if they reside at the same location). 

(The important stuff (like porn 'research data') I keep locally, of course.   :-*)   

f0dder:
Related to this topic: the one and greater TB drives are a natural progression, but are they not headed for extinction in the consumer market?-gpetrant (January 14, 2009, 12:13 AM)
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I don't think so - ADSL (which is the most common connection method in .dk afaik) is still limited to 2mbit/s upstream, and the fastest common downstream is 20mbit/s (50mbit/s is in testing, but even 20mbit/s isn't widely available). Also, you need to live close to a switching central to get that kind of speed, and it's still relatively expensive. I'd guess the average connection speed is something like 2048/256 kbit/s...

Harddrives are something like 90/75 mbyte/s - that's more than an order of magnitude faster than the fastest widely available consumer internet connections. And it's going to stay that way for quite a while, fiber is being rolled out very slowly (and lately there's been some problems for the energy companies that have been responsible for a lot of the fiber rolling-out business).

Remote backups would be cute (but ugh, the thought of backing up a terabyte of data with 2mbit/s...), but incremental backups are not everything. It wouldn't be that weird having a terabyte storage for movies for your HTPC :)

Darwin:
Good points, f0dder, and my experience exactly. I've tried a number of on-line backup solutions but use none of them because it's just too painful trying to upload any of the data I am interested in preserving. I'm far happier making backups to harddrives and storing them off-site for safe keeping... Hang on  :o I'm not actually storing any of my backups off-site! I've got about 6 external harddrives full of backups all lined up on a shelf. Not too bright...

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