The firmware is still "In Validation" as of now..12:15pm 21st Jan 2009.

How long does it takes for them to fix this thing? Or maybe they're still scratching their head?

They should just buy bulk from WD to get discount and give out WD replacement to us!!!

lol.. , good also.. so i don need to buy WD after this for replacement, they already do it for us..

This post has been edited by amiranna: Jan 21 2009, 12:26 PM

where can we dl the firmware update?

This post has been edited by NewbieBetta: Jan 21 2009, 12:32 PM

When the cow comes home...or ur HDD bricked, whichever comes first.

luckily din buy seagate yesterday, bought WD instead

oh..mine are running at sata1 speed since using old mobo

http://www.anandtech.com/weblog/showpost.aspx?i=540

Update-

If it were not for bad luck, we would have no luck at all. We decided to follow Seagate's instructions and updated several of our other Barracuda 7200.11 drives today that were identified to have suspect firmware with the revised SD1A firmware. Our ST3500320AS (500GB) and ST3640330AS (640GB) drives are bricked now. It appears this is a widespread problem, once again, and Seagate has pulled this firmware. We do not have a response from Seagate yet, but how in world they let this one get by qualification testing is beyond us. At this time, do not flash your drives if you have the SD1A firmware.

last time the seagate 750gb also fail me.the hard-disk is run at (raid 0 ). that time i had already brought 2 more new hard-disk to backup it, but when the week i get the new hard-disk. the 1st hard-disk suddenly KO. all my data was gone just like that.i miss my data a lot
the rma is ok, i get back my hard-disk in 7-12 day with a green label" repair hard-disk" on the hard-disk. so ugly

all seagate hdd price is droppd edy or wat?

not yet...not every1 know about this case le...

my Seagate 750GB just kong yesterday ;(

how long u use the hdd edi?

Seagate drop price until rm10 bux also now nobody buy ler ..

Hmm... well time to go for WD then

Errr...RM10 i buy...buy 30 units and put RAID 10, any HDD kong, just swap with extra only.

i think more than 1 month

it haven't been more than a month since i spend over 3k on my new rig so currently in dire situation

This post has been edited by Gh-x: Jan 21 2009, 03:09 PM

i thnik seagate hdd the best one that i use

was...best~..now sux...if u r not the barracuda 7200.11 user..u wouldnt feel the pain..

I helped building PC's for my friends and two 500GB and one 750GB Seagate drives failed on me. Nowadays I just tell them to get WD.

Damn it, no wonder my drive failed only after 6 months of use. Mine is a 500GB with firmware SD15. Lost all my pron collection . RMAed already but still got back the drive with same model. DAmn damn damn.

BTW, when will they put up a new firmware fix?

This post has been edited by hypermax: Jan 21 2009, 06:08 PM

how to know is it an oem unit or not?

btw, i m not facing any bricked problem...
but kinda scare that it will happen although mine is not bought last month, but i m having the firmware thats affected...
maybe mine is alrite?
i seldom restart or shutdown the com....
could this help?