yes, my barracuda also corrupt before this, now using western digital

send to rma 2 hdd already unlucky got the problem serial one haizzzz....

Just to share. So far my 2 500GB flashed to SD1A working fine (one is mine, the other my relative's). It almost 3 to 4 weeks now. But i did heard some sound one day from my PC...i'm not sure if it's coming from the HDD or something else, it was just once, but the PC runs fine.

But the funny thing is the sypmtons mentioned by some of the affected user...slow down, then BIOS not detected etc happened to one of my 250GB Seagate HDD which is not in the list. That was sometime last year and i've tried changing SATA ports etc, no avail...sometimes ok, sometimes cannot. In the end, i've changed the SATA cable and the problem hasn't repeat itself eversince.

So if you do have such symptons, try changing the SATA cable as well. It just might work.

My Harddisk really funny...=.=

im totally suffer from the krek krek sound from my HD...

really damn annoying..but juz now,really cannot tahan already..

so i juz ketuk the HD bcoz damn tension...not so harsh actually...

and walla..the HD now quiter then ever..hahaha....

luckily nothing bad happen...

This post has been edited by nazseha: Feb 19 2009, 01:43 AM

Haha... just the krek,krek sound,u hit the hard disk.. Maybe this time is just your luck.. If not,maybe the hard disk will fail...
Like malay said " kerana marahkan nyamuk,habis kelambu dibakar"

i also have the 7200.11 series. 500gb and 750gb.
first i had a 500gb 7200.11 which failed which I then RMAed and they gave me a new 500GB 7200.11 which began to show failure 1-2 months ago. then i bought a new 500gb 7200.12 thinking problems are fixed.

unfortunately, im stuck. sigh. just within a week, im having problems with it. I try to copy paste between different hard disks, after a while it started to give like a beep sound. not a click sound though..

the 750gb 7200.11 harddisks are still working at the moment but not sure when those are gonna fail. Sigh.

i have a 160gb seagate hdd but that's been much more reliable than all the other hard disks.

western digital from now on.

in case you guys haven't found it yet, the "solution" to fix a bricked HDD is here:


http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=128807

OK guys...
It's already a month since Seagate release the SD1A to replace the SD15 firmware..
Anyone facing problem after update to SD1A?
Or,anyone here still using SD15 and feel their drive still strong even not update to SD1A??

*I'm on of the user still using SD15... No problem so far...

i'm on the sd15 which has already brinked. gona send it in for rma or something and get a new hdd and sell it

b4 updating my HDD to SD1A i sometimes encountered probs detecting the HDD but after updating all runs well except it runs noisier n hotter a bit...

so far so good

I have a 400gb Seagate which "krek" loud....should i ketuk it haha.

my exchged SD1A frm the previous dead SD15 on jan 14 so far so good

This post has been edited by ZeneticX: Feb 22 2009, 05:50 PM

i just flash to SD1A, so far so good. but got some clicking sound...
althought my serial check show not affected but seagate support ask me to flash...

-My ST31000340AS which I bought from AllnGap (and exchanged once before because of problems) had been returned to him, and he refunded me back.
Thanks, bro.

-Even though it had been upgraded to SD1A firmware, it still have some problems: freezing/slowing down once in a while, clicking noise (sometimes, randomly), and the latest, bad sectors!

-So, I thought that it (my problem) have nothing to do with SD1A firmware, but just bad luck (e.g. got bad batch units).

-Anyway, just bought another ST31000340AS from emailfhm and found that it's OEM also, but Seagate Warranty Validation page says it have warranty until 2013.


Regards.

hey.. are there any other symptoms besides 0GB, bios not detect the hdd..etc?

because my rig kinda took a long time at bios splash screen..it wasnt like this before..mine is still on old firmware SD15..

Flashed my 2 500GB ST3500320AS to SD1A and still no problems after 1 month. It's noisier than SD15 but not loud enough to be annoying though.

I am getting that 'krek, krek' sound too. Omg, is my Seagate HDD going to fail?

how to RMA my drive? anyone can tell me? mine ST3500320AS failed too.. copying files from tat drive is very very slow and sometimes auto restart pc...i already updated to SD1A ..just today show up problem...damn i lost some data... i changed everyting the sata port, cables....still same..

so how to RMA my drive? pls help me thanks

send to seagate support center at summit usj

mine is updated to SD1A already from SD15
no problems since i bought it beginning of April 2008
almost 11 months of use but no problem encountered so far