-Hmm, shouldn't it be SD1A instead?
DST=Drive Self-Test; a built-in diagnostic functionality within the drive.


Regards.

yea, it's SD1A...

so basically if the DST test failed, shud i RMA it?

mine 500gb st3500320AS formerly SD15, already updated last month SD1A, i notice the Spin Retry Count in HDTune sometimes will increase, and sometime my drive very very slow, speed to 3.3MB/s (formatting 500gb consuming 40hrs, yeah, i did tried, took me 2 days)....
why seagate engineers are like this? are they Uni educated or just finish lower school?? and their programmer for the PCB chips got problem too? (oh, did they know how logic works?) cannot make a good firmware program untill now..
i am damn angry wasting my time to backup the whole 500gb drive to other drive at 3.3mb/s.
formerly mine SD15 no problem, but after i check the serial says mine is affected, so i listen to their damn advise lo, thanks for downgrading my drive...
hey, western digital more durable....i check the HDTune for my maxtor + 2 seagate drive(500&320)...the health parameter already got 2 yellow highlighted and the Data(the figures damn very big), and my drive running 1799 hrs and maxtor 8931hrs.....and i compare my bro's pc WD drive running 11890 hrs (no yellow highlighted parameters) still running good
nex time i switch to WD..no more to sea&max..

This post has been edited by lovelies: Mar 6 2009, 04:00 PM

well my WD 1TB took 20 hours to format

write speed about 25MB

so GO for WD

wont regret

no 2 seagate and maxtor

-That's crazy! What filesystem you're using? What OS?
So slow...

haha NTFS

why normally format is 10 seconds?

-Nah, 10 seconds? That's quick format.
Done normal/full formatting my friend's ST31000340AS with SD1A (newly bought from emailfhm): it takes about 3-4 hours (all space in single NTFS partition) under IDE mode.
After that, with AHCI, I thinks it's a (little) bit faster.
Later, with 150Gb/s jumper cap removed (so now SATA2 @ 300Gb/s), not so different...
Finally checked with CHKDSK and found 0 (zero) bad sectors.
Also passed SeaTools' SMART, short DST & short generic tests (long tests maybe later).

-All above to test its reliability only; later only will really use.


Regards.

i format my 1.5tb hd using quick also
i dun dare to think how long it'll need for a full format.

less than 4 hrs format 1.5T if running at SATAI

mine was running USB and 3 partitions 330GB each took 20 hours

lol

anyone know is there any newer firmware release after SD1A?
seagate gonna release fixed firmware in future or not?

last time i look @ seagate website,there is a newer firmware
SD1B or SD2B....gotta search their website
no other news bout d 7200.12 on their website either...dunt know if purposely deleted

Guys, I need a quick info here.

Is the model ST31000340NS (Barracuda ES.2) affected by the issues discussed in this thread?

It will be crazy and time-consuming for me to read thru all 46 pages

My firmware is SD81... i'm certain it's not SD18... it's not listed as one of those affected. I've been using it for over a month no probs. Keeping my fingers crossed.

http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/self...sp?DocId=207931

potentially ,yeah

My seagate 1TB hard drive broke down yesterday. It is no longer detected in the bios. Is there any way that I can recover the data myself? Got some sensitive data (ehem...you know lar, guys stuff) that I don't want others to see.

wow
what dif with quick format and full one bro??

Thanks shajack.

Oh boy, means I gotta go thru the hassle of upgrading the firmware

quick format only delete the references to the data and the files in tat drive...so cannot see in  windows....but the data still there, if use recovering program, the data will be recovered....
so if u wanna delete 100% all the data in tat drive, perform full format is better (full format will repair non-serious bad sectors)
see which condition u wanna format lo....
if u wanna RMA the drive, u better full format it...
if u sure tat the drive have no bad sectors, then use quick format lo..

This post has been edited by lovelies: Mar 8 2009, 01:19 AM

ooo ic so thats why im making 100G partition and only got 97G free space after that???..
sorry quite noob about hdd just know how to insert data on it