Problems with Seagate Drives

      by Wyatt Walter

There have been a number of problems with Seagate‘s new version 11 of the 7200 class Barracuda hard drives, Seagate has admitted. Users are reporting that the drive will stop working or just outright fail during high I/O load times. The company has said that the problem is due to faulty firmware installed on the drives and is offering a free firmware update to fix the issue. Users who are experiencing issues with the drives are encouraged to contact Seagate support through email and they have said they will work to promptly resolve any issues users have. To tell if your drive is one of the infected ones, on the label you can look at the top right for Barracuda then the version number. At this point, it appears that only the 7200.11 drives are affected.

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Filed under News : Comments (0) : Jan 19th, 2009