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 Seagate 7200.11 hard drive firmware woes, Barracuda 7.11, FW:SD15, 1.5TB/1TB/500GB

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kokifung
post Mar 9 2009, 09:35 AM

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hmm.. just wanna ask..

i just buy new seagate 1TB drive but wat i get is only 953 GB,
it is normal?
40 over GB gone.. swt
i did check the latest firmware is SD1A

hmmm....
kokifung
post Mar 9 2009, 10:19 AM

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QUOTE(Radeon @ Mar 9 2009, 09:44 AM)
yes it's normal
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wah.. rclxub.gif rclxub.gif shocking.gif shocking.gif
eat so many wan ar??
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post Mar 9 2009, 01:27 PM

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QUOTE(A2Z2U @ Mar 9 2009, 01:17 PM)
I am worse than you. Just bought a WD caviar green 1TB yesterday. After formatted, the space is only 931GB  rclxub.gif
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sweat.gif sweat.gif sweat.gif

so basically we cant do anything to get back the lost memory??

hmm.. i tot can get back almost to 1 TB wan.. maybe lost 10~20GB ok lor... shocking.gif shocking.gif
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post Mar 10 2009, 09:39 AM

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QUOTE(omara86 @ Mar 10 2009, 09:30 AM)
hello guys... wanna ask u all... about the firmware prob for seagate... my hdd is seagate 1TB... and now, sometime the hdd will idle and not spinning... refreshing then spin back (wake up from idle) which cause lag while the process run.. is it normal or symptom of the fault hdd?
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hmm... dunno wor..

u got check ur power option setting??

dun let ur hard disk sleep..

usually, vista or XP, default setting will let hard disk sleep after 20 minute idle..
kokifung
post Mar 10 2009, 10:06 AM

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well.. u better have burn it into DVDs now.. or u better have external hard disk.. is more affordable now..

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