** Andy Random <andy.random@???> [2009-03-11 13:28]:
> 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.'
** end quote [Andy Random]
I guess that's what comes of taking over Maxtor. I have to say I was
somewhat annoyed to find Seagate had done that just as I'd finally given
up on the reliability of Maxtor drives and switched to Seagate!! Time to
take a closer look at WD, Samsung and Hitachi I guess, but each
manufacturer seems to go through a bad patch every now and then. Then,
excepting the case of Fujitsu, then tend to sort themselves out and
recover (well, Fujitsu still do SCSI drives I suppose).
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