wtf wtf wtf ?

built a data storage solution for a company (free lance) a few months ago. I used 8x1Tb n 12 x750Gb barracuda7200 in RAID.

anyway to prevent this? so far i havent heard any complaints. but their have my head if everything suddenly dissapears

raid which version? with redundancy? one die still can rescue..

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Added on January 21, 2009, 1:25 amwah if die in may can get new 7200.12 series ar?

This post has been edited by ar188: Jan 21 2009, 01:25 AM

get another extra hdd like me .... means you can store your data on safe hdd like wd green works green for me hehehehe

so far Seagate has not came up with any solution
anyway, if something goes wrong, it wouldn't be your fault right? it's like, you set up properly for them and all, but it's the hardware problem, not because of your negligence

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Added on January 21, 2009, 1:27 amwait until i have my own income to do that

This post has been edited by cyew86: Jan 21 2009, 01:27 AM

ummmm RAID means RISK ACKNOWLEDGE IN DEVICE ahhaha just joking but raid takes alot of risk for my opinion...

RAID 10. so these things happen on random ? or do they have a "timer"?

i still want my reputation to stay intact. and all this while i've been avoiding maxtor

random rate of 40%..

sir im not that geek to explain you bout that but try click this link...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID_10#RAID_1.2B0

Guys.. if i Unplug my HDD's for the mean time will the time bomb still TICK? @_@". i was thinking to unplug until theres a fix @_@"

the bricking feature happen during your power on state. you can test that feature if you want.

No guarantee. It could die the next time u plug it back in.

My advise...don't do anything or flash anything until there's further notice of new firmware and sees what happens...

It'll be ironic if we are trying to avoid a brick, but in the quest to prevent the brick, we actually bricked it.

Stay cool....

rite... =( UGH need88gb of space more to backup my stuff GYAAAAA

yeah, maybe if we didn't kacau it will work for a year, but after kacau, die next day after reboot..

lucky my newly bought 1tb seagate is not in the problematic batch..but unfortunately my ext hdd which i bought from a forumer last yr which is 500gb is 320AS and is on SD15..using it like almost 6 months...inside full of data ...

i am going to transfer it to my new pc and wait seagate to give response so far the hdd perform as usual just that the power on of the hdd is a bit noisy...

-Hmm, any drive owner with -568 Product Code and/or SD35 firmware have any problem(s) with the HDD? Mind to share?

-Also, anyone who bought from AllnGap and faced a problem & RMA'ed the HDD already, please share too. Not try to ruin his sale, only want to know.
If there's no case (beside mine ), then maybe his batch could be safe.

-FYI, my HDD is ST31000340AS with 9BX158-568 Product Code and SD35 firmware.


Regards.

This post has been edited by Musafir_86: Jan 21 2009, 10:13 AM

This article applies to the following models:
Drive Family

Models Affected

Firmware Affected

Recommended Firmware Update Status
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11

ST3500320AS
ST3640330AS
ST3750330AS
ST31000340AS

SD15, SD16, SD17, SD18, SD19

In Validation*

Please verify your drive model number, serial number, and firmware revision using the Drive Detect software.

*Note: This file has been temporarily taken offline as of Jan 19, 2008 8PM CST for validation.

If your drive matches one of the models listed in this article and does not match any of these versions of firmware, your drive is not affected.
If you are still unsure if this applies to your drive, please submit an email to disksupport@seagate.com. Please enter the model number, serial number, and firmware revision into the subject line of the email.

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Added on January 21, 2009, 10:21 amdamn..i just chk again my newly bought 1gb is end with 333AS and it's on the affected model

This post has been edited by dokidoki: Jan 21 2009, 10:21 AM

@dokidoki,

-Yes, my firmware isn't listed, but my model is. I already contacted them (through Submit a Case) last Saturday, but still no reply yet.

-And I'm skeptical that the article actually states incomplete list of affected firmware. On MSFN forum, there's a HDD with -568 & SD81 failed already.

So far I have tested 2 of my 4 harddisk. They all have the same model number and same firmware revision. However, when querying by serial number it shows that 1 out of 2 is affected. Well, just wait and see I suppose, even though more information, transparency and hopefully a Weibull plot from Seagate would have let a lot of us sleep better.

The important thing is critical data should be backed up on another hard disk, or better yet, add an offline optical storage to the mix

look like i have no choice but to invest another 1.5tb WD hdd

before anything happens, just back up everything, it doesn't matter in a newly bought HDD, blank DVDs or whatsoever as data are more precious than the HDD itself. For me, I would rather buy a new HDD and do backup than to go to a data recovery center to do it >_<

Imagine the cost off a new HDD compared to the data recovery center