What are the odds?

[Engineer]

Originally posted by: sao123

Originally posted by: Kadarin
Update on this... Both drives are dead. I pulled them both out of their cases and plugged them in directly, using different power, and they're definitely dead. Both are Seagate "Barracuda 7200.10" 750GB, p/n 9BJ148-326 date code 07143 firmware 3.AAD. I will never buy Seagate drives again.

its probably your fault, since seagate issued a firmware update for all its 7200.1x drives, as they were experiencing volumes of predictable deaths...

you probably failed to perform the required update.

the good news is some drives were able to be revived by doing the firmware update post mortem.

Uh, that was for the7200.11 drives, not the 7200.10 drives. I also don't think the 7200.12 drive were effected either.

 

[sao123]

Originally posted by: Engineer

Originally posted by: sao123

Originally posted by: Kadarin
Update on this... Both drives are dead. I pulled them both out of their cases and plugged them in directly, using different power, and they're definitely dead. Both are Seagate "Barracuda 7200.10" 750GB, p/n 9BJ148-326 date code 07143 firmware 3.AAD. I will never buy Seagate drives again.

its probably your fault, since seagate issued a firmware update for all its 7200.1x drives, as they were experiencing volumes of predictable deaths...

you probably failed to perform the required update.

the good news is some drives were able to be revived by doing the firmware update post mortem.

Uh, that was for the7200.11 drives, not the 7200.10 drives. I also don't think the 7200.12 drive were effected either.

the 12 comes with the newest firmware. But I believe both the 10 & 11 are affected by the bug.

 

[Engineer]

Originally posted by: sao123

the 12 comes with the newest firmware. But I believe both the 10 & 11 are affected by the bug.

The searches that I did (after posting above) show only 11, unless I'm missing something.

 

[Kadarin]

Thanks guys, that's good info about the firmware update. Actually, I didn't know the drives were Seagate as the enclosures have Maxtor labels on them, and they OEMed the drives from Seagate. I will investigate to see if there's a way to apply the update.

 

[TheKub]

Originally posted by: Kadarin
Thanks guys, that's good info about the firmware update. Actually, I didn't know the drives were Seagate as the enclosures have Maxtor labels on them, and they OEMed the drives from Seagate. I will investigate to see if there's a way to apply the update.

Seagate bought Maxtor some time ago.

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: TheKub

Originally posted by: Kadarin
Thanks guys, that's good info about the firmware update. Actually, I didn't know the drives were Seagate as the enclosures have Maxtor labels on them, and they OEMed the drives from Seagate. I will investigate to see if there's a way to apply the update.

Seagate bought Maxtor some time ago.

I guess I've been out of the loop! Though these drives are a few years old...

 

[her209]

MTBF^2

 

[sao123]

Originally posted by: Engineer

Originally posted by: sao123

the 12 comes with the newest firmware. But I believe both the 10 & 11 are affected by the bug.

The searches that I did (after posting above) show only 11, unless I'm missing something.

apologies... its
the 7200.11
the ES.2
the diamondmax 22


i knew there were several drives affected.