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Seagate 1.5TB SATA Drive - $117

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Seagate 1.5 TB Serial ATA/300, 32MB Buffer Retail Boxed Hard Drive.- ST315005N1A1AS-RK $117 at Fry's with free shipping. Retail Kit = 5 year warranty.

Even though this same drive was $8 cheaper a couple of weeks ago, the current price is still $20 less than competitors.
 
I picked up 10 a little while ago from the local fry's and they were all "CC" firmware.
 
Originally posted by: harobikes333
What's "CC" firmware?
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It's a reference to problems that many Seagate drives experienced in December/January. The drives would lock up after a certain number of internal journal entries. The first firmware "fix" ended up damaging even more drives.

You can read about the Anandtech experience with those drives and the perspective of a Seagate employee here.

The problem drives have pretty much been flushed out of the distribution system now -- especially if you buy from high volume vendors like Fry's -- but the fiasco left a lot of people wary of Seagates large drives. In any case, you can download a a utility from Seagate that will tell you whether or not your drive might be in jeopardy.


 
Originally posted by: Athena
Originally posted by: harobikes333
What's "CC" firmware?
Click to expand...
It's a reference to problems that many Seagate drives experienced in December/January. The drives would lock up after a certain number of internal journal entries. The first firmware "fix" ended up damaging even more drives.

You can read about the Anandtech experience with those drives and the perspective of a Seagate employee here.

The problem drives have pretty much been flushed out of the distribution system now -- especially if you buy from high volume vendors like Fry's -- but the fiasco left a lot of people wary of Seagates large drives. In any case, you can download a a utility from Seagate that will tell you whether or not your drive might be in jeopardy.
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So.. can you send the "defective" drive in for a new one? / do you have to eat the shipping. ( just curious. i haven't bought one of these)
 
The issue should be irrelevant for anyone purchasing a drive today. Large volume vendors are all shipping newer driver (the one I bought at Fry's last month was manufactured in April). If a supplier happens to ship an older drive (manufactured before February) the buyer should update the firmware before installing anything on it.

Seagate did set up a special return procedure for customers who had the specific problem described in those articles that included no-charge data recovery. Anyone who had a drive go bad and somehow missed all the publicity, should definitely contact Seagate.
 
No-charge data recovery? Maybe I shouldn't give up on them just yet, that's a good apology... and 5 year warranty, hmm.
 
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