On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Alan Pope wrote:
> 2009/3/11 Tim <xendistar@???>:
>> For the record the disk did not show up on the PC, no lights, no spin up
>> nothing, attached another sata hard disk to the PC and the PC saw the disk and
>> was happy to use it.
>>
>
> What make/model of disk is it?
It's not a Seagate drive is it?
We've had all kinds of grief in the office with 500GB-1TB Seagate drives
recently...
2 out of 10 500GB drives failed in less than 6 months.
5 out of 7 750GB drives failed in under a month!
1 out of 1 1TB drives failed within a week.
To be fair they have all been replaced under warranty, but we are no
longer buying Seagate drives, at least until they resolve their firmware
problems, see:
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2009/01/21/seagates_second_fault_fix/
To determine whether your product is affected, please visit the Seagate
Support web site at
http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/news.jsp?DocId=207931
It assures users that data is still on the drive and is working with
customers affected with any unrecoverable data 'to expedite a remedy.'
Andy
