update:

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3...7200-11-failing

Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 drives failing

SEAGATE'S FLAGSHIP desktop Barracuda 7200.11 drives, in particular the 1TB (ST31000340AS) units, are failing at an alarming rate and prompting outrage from their faithful customers.

A new self-bricking feature apparently resides in faulty firmware microcode which will rear its ugly head sometime at boot detection. Essentially the drive will be working as normal for a while, then - out of the blue - it'll brick itself to death. The next time you reboot your computer the drive will simply lock itself up as a failsafe and won't be detected by the BIOS. In other words, there's power, spin-up, but no detection to enable booting.

Naturally the Seagate forums (as well as many other customer-driven forums, like etailers and hardware sites) are flooded with testimonies of customers' experiences with Seagate support. These are helpful enough to ship you a new drive, as per the warranty, but invariably the drives end up bricking as well.



希捷酷鱼7200.11硬盘面临缺陷问题
http://edu.cnbeta.com/articles/74761.htm

希捷最新一代的Barracuda 7200.11硬盘被曝出有缺陷,容易引发故障,据希捷公司论坛上和新蛋等B2C网站上的用户报告,这款磁盘,尤其是1TB版本包含一个缺陷,容易不正确地触发硬盘内部的保护机制,导致使用期间出现问题.这一问题主要集中在泰国出产的硬盘固件上.一些数据恢复公司的报告也应证了这一说法,7200.11硬盘的失败率明显高于其它产品.


虽然据报道说,希捷承认问题存在,并发布了固件更新,但并没有对客户提供额外的补偿和保修服务,许多用户也根本不知道需要更新自己的固件,因此业内认为希捷无视用户评论的行为令人失望.

This post has been edited by yangxi: Jan 14 2009, 08:10 AM

soon will see many Seagate HDD for lelong..

If put in DVR system , than ok