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Seagagte Baracuda 7200.11 SATA drive no longer recognized - anyone else?

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Dervacumen:
Just wondering.
This is apparently an issue that's very well documented although Seagate denies it.
So my drive was working fine, then one day a couple months ago it was no longer recognized by the BIOS.
Turns out I have to hack a cable and send it some commands via hyperterminal or some such program to release it from the busy state.
Not too big a deal I suppose, but just wondering if anyone else has come across this problem?

WhereEaglesDare:
I stopped buying Seagate for that very reason.

I have had several people with this issue, I have always heard you had to replace the PCB board on the drive.

Bootay:
Also run far far away from Western Digital Green drives. I have 2 of them, and about once a year one of them dies and I lose all my data. Now I don't bother to use them in fear of losing data again. Both were 500 gig. I personally only use Hitachi now but everyone has their own preference.

Vigo:
I never have problems with HDD's...they always outlive their useful life for me. I've had a couple barracuda's as well. Never touched the WD Green Drive though.

I've also heard bad things about the Hitachi Deathstar, but my 1.5tb drive is still working just fine.  :dunno

J_K_M_A_N:
I have had 2 hard drives fail on me over 10+ years. One was a segate that was under warranty and one was a WD that was out of warranty. I have used both brands and both have been pretty good. I build systems for other people and none of the systems I have built have had the hard drive fail. I did install 1 WD green drive. It was slow as hell until I figured out that you have to run WD Align(link) for XP. After that it worked just fine.

J_K_M_A_N

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