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Link - > http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207931
Author's note:
1. New Firmware for ES2.NS series is not available yet.
2. Certain drives simply won't get recognised by the updater therefore it's impossible to change the firmware, although they are on the list and update is available.
3. Serves them for hiring Indian programmers.
4. If you go to the official Seagate forums it starts to look pretty badly for Seagate.
Here's the list of "my" casualties:
1. 1TB 340AS. Died after about a month, exhanged it for WD Green 1TB, works like a charm.
2. 1TB 333AS. Died 2 weeks later with exact same sympthoms, exchanged that to WD Caviar Black (which is actually faster, quieter, and about 10$ cheaper).
3. 1TB 340NS. Died a few hours after i bought a WD Velociraptor 150 and installed Win 7 on it (a week ago), will get money back for it tommorow, not sure what i'm gonna buy (300$ cashback).
If yo? are looking for alternatives:
1. WD Green series is great, and they are about to ship the newer models with 2x500GB plates, which will be even quieter and cooler, dunno about long run reliability, mine is very quiet, 85-95 write speed, doesn't need any cooling at all.
2. Samsing F1 series is also quite good, although they had some issues with low speed surface sector read on earlier models. It's cheaper and a bit less noisy than WD Caviar Black, but a tiny bit slower as well.
3. If you are looking for performance WD Raptor is the way to go. 300GB is REALLY unreliable, 150GB is VERY reliable (reportedly), comes with 5-year warranty, and overall it's about 50% faster than any 7200rpm drives, and it's actually queter than both Seagate.11 and Black series, and cooling is better, as it comes in a solid radiator.
A number of Seagate hard drives from the following families may become inaccessible when the host system is powered on:
Barracuda 7200.11
DiamondMax 22
Barracuda ES.2 SATA
Once a drive has become affected the data becomes inaccessible to users but the data is not deleted. Seagate has isolated this issue to a firmware bug affecting drives from these families manufactured in December 2008.
Please use the following tools and instructions to determine if you have one of the affected products. If your drive is affected, we recommend that you update the firmware on the disk drive to prevent this condition.
After determining your serial, model and firmware revision please attempt to find your model in the following list of affected models. If you have one of these drives you can choose it from the list for model-specific instructions to update the firmware.
Barracuda 7200.11
ST31000340AS
ST3750330AS
ST3640330AS
ST3500320AS
ST31500341AS
ST31000333AS
ST3640323AS
ST3640623AS
ST3320613AS
ST3320813AS
ST3160813AS
Barracuda ES.2 SATA
ST31000340NS
ST3750330NS
ST3500320NS
ST3250310NS
DiamondMax 22
STM31000340AS
STM3750330AS
STM3500320AS
STM31000334AS
STM3320614AS
STM3160813AS
Author's note:
1. New Firmware for ES2.NS series is not available yet.
2. Certain drives simply won't get recognised by the updater therefore it's impossible to change the firmware, although they are on the list and update is available.
3. Serves them for hiring Indian programmers.
4. If you go to the official Seagate forums it starts to look pretty badly for Seagate.
Here's the list of "my" casualties:
1. 1TB 340AS. Died after about a month, exhanged it for WD Green 1TB, works like a charm.
2. 1TB 333AS. Died 2 weeks later with exact same sympthoms, exchanged that to WD Caviar Black (which is actually faster, quieter, and about 10$ cheaper).
3. 1TB 340NS. Died a few hours after i bought a WD Velociraptor 150 and installed Win 7 on it (a week ago), will get money back for it tommorow, not sure what i'm gonna buy (300$ cashback).
If yo? are looking for alternatives:
1. WD Green series is great, and they are about to ship the newer models with 2x500GB plates, which will be even quieter and cooler, dunno about long run reliability, mine is very quiet, 85-95 write speed, doesn't need any cooling at all.
2. Samsing F1 series is also quite good, although they had some issues with low speed surface sector read on earlier models. It's cheaper and a bit less noisy than WD Caviar Black, but a tiny bit slower as well.
3. If you are looking for performance WD Raptor is the way to go. 300GB is REALLY unreliable, 150GB is VERY reliable (reportedly), comes with 5-year warranty, and overall it's about 50% faster than any 7200rpm drives, and it's actually queter than both Seagate.11 and Black series, and cooling is better, as it comes in a solid radiator.
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