Re: OT: Seagate drive failures

> Ok, I know this is off topic but a lot of us have used Seagate drives
> in our Dells so I thought this might be of some value to those that
> used Seagate drives.

I read something the other day that said there's something like a 30%
failure rate for the 1TB drives...

Colin Wilson wrote:
>> Ok, I know this is off topic but a lot of us have used Seagate drives
>> in our Dells so I thought this might be of some value to those that
>> used Seagate drives.
>
> I read something the other day that said there's something like a 30%
> failure rate for the 1TB drives...

Seagate is not the only drive manufacturer pushing the envelope, using
less proven technologies to increase speed and storage capacity, while
lowering the price at the same time. To this I say, "Give me SCSI or
give me death." Apologies to Patrick Henry.

Still, it is disappointing to see this sort of blemish on a fairly good
Seagate track record. Maybe too many ex-Maxtor engineers were part of
the effort to bring 500+GB to market. Or could it be Seagate's highly
eroded stock price and less capital to invest in new developments?

.... Ben Myers

"Ben Myers" <> wrote in message
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> Colin Wilson wrote:
>>> Ok, I know this is off topic but a lot of us have used Seagate drives
>>> in our Dells so I thought this might be of some value to those that
>>> used Seagate drives.
>>
>> I read something the other day that said there's something like a 30%
>> failure rate for the 1TB drives...
>
> Seagate is not the only drive manufacturer pushing the envelope, using
> less proven technologies to increase speed and storage capacity, while
> lowering the price at the same time. To this I say, "Give me SCSI or give
> me death." Apologies to Patrick Henry.
>
> Still, it is disappointing to see this sort of blemish on a fairly good
> Seagate track record. Maybe too many ex-Maxtor engineers were part of the
> effort to bring 500+GB to market. Or could it be Seagate's highly eroded
> stock price and less capital to invest in new developments?
>
> ... Ben Myers


I'm not seeing this, but I don't have any Seagate drives over 320GB. Scales
may have some >750GB though.

"Tom Scales" <> wrote in message
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: S.Lewis [private.php?do=newpm&u=]
> Posted At: Saturday, January 17, 2009 8:39 AM
> Posted To: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
> Conversation: OT: Seagate drive failures
> Subject: Re: OT: Seagate drive failures
>
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> "Ben Myers" <> wrote in message
> news:gkslub$sg$...
>> Colin Wilson wrote:
>>>> Ok, I know this is off topic but a lot of us have used Seagate
> drives
>>>> in our Dells so I thought this might be of some value to those that
>>>> used Seagate drives.
>>>
>>> I read something the other day that said there's something like a 30%
>
>>> failure rate for the 1TB drives...
>>
>> Seagate is not the only drive manufacturer pushing the envelope, using
>
>> less proven technologies to increase speed and storage capacity, while
>
>> lowering the price at the same time. To this I say, "Give me SCSI or
> give
>> me death." Apologies to Patrick Henry.
>>
>> Still, it is disappointing to see this sort of blemish on a fairly
> good
>> Seagate track record. Maybe too many ex-Maxtor engineers were part of
> the
>> effort to bring 500+GB to market. Or could it be Seagate's highly
> eroded
>> stock price and less capital to invest in new developments?
>>
>> ... Ben Myers
>
>
> I'm not seeing this, but I don't have any Seagate drives over 320GB.
> Scales
> may have some >750GB though.
>
>
> Probably do. Don't know. Have a bunch of 1TB drives. Don't recall
> which ones. They work so far.
>




Right. And you'd remember if one failed and what brand it was.

wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 10:22:49 -0000, Colin Wilson
> <> brought the following:
>
>>> Ok, I know this is off topic but a lot of us have used Seagate drives
>>> in our Dells so I thought this might be of some value to those that
>>> used Seagate drives.
>> I read something the other day that said there's something like a 30%
>> failure rate for the 1TB drives...
>
> If you go over to the Seagate user forum (where no one has much to say)
> you'll find many such posts about failed Barracuda 7200. I studied up on
> the SATA drives and ultimately bought a more expensive Seagate
> Enterprise class 500 GB drive for my Dell 670.
>
> It shows up as "ST3500320NS" in Device Manager and it came with the
> drive jumpered for SATA-150, as the 670 integrated controller is SATA
> 1.5 spec. Seems to be working just fine, however I have three drives on
> one power supply cable.. and would like to split two drives / two drives
> on the power supply lines in the drive cage area.. instead of one drive
> / three drives presently.
>
> -Ed

The Register is reporting that Seagate believes the problem to be caused
by a "firmware issue."

"After reports that its 1TB Barracuda drives are failing at an unusually
high rate, Seagate says it has isolated a 'potential firmware issue'
that would seem to be the cause of this worldwide plague.

"The company will provide a free firmware upgrade for those affected by
the problem, and if you've lost data thanks to this firmware issue, it
will provide free data recover services as well."

The entire article is here: http://tinyurl.com/9sae29