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

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Bootay:
Yea I never had an issue with any of my Hitachi drives. I don't have a "deathstar" though.

I used to only get WD drives back in the IDE days and they were solid. Seems like ever since SATA WD has been crappy, but mainly just with the Green drives.

I never had issues with HDDs ever until I bought 2 WD Green drives though. Oh well.

BadMouth:
Sent a 4 month old 500GB seagate back last month that was behaving the same way.  I didn't know there was a fix out there.
Ran "sea-tools", it said the drive was bad, gave me an error code & I RMA'd it.

If you haven't yet, check out their crazy return instructions.
They basically require that you use very specific packing material, but they won't provide it for you.
They provide a link to a company that sells the stuff, but it isn't worth the cost to have it shipped to you.
....and if they don't approve of your return packaging, your warranty is void.

I had some leftover rubber foam from a project that wasn't too far from what they required.
They shipped me a new drive A WEEK after receiving my old one.  UPS showed my old drive was delivered on a Friday morning and my rma status on the seagate website was still "awaiting your drive" the following thursday.  I sent them an email inquiry & within a few hours it was updated to received & the new drive was shipped out the next day.  Then I received a reply to my inquiry that stating that the new drive had already shipped.  I figure it would have taken even longer had I not inquired.

The crazy thing is that they specifically request that you not use bubble wrap or packing peanuts (or newspaper), which is exactly how newegg shipped the drive to me.

They do offer an option to pay $20 and they'll ship you a new drive, then you ship the old one back in the same box.
At that point, you're pretty much buying a new drive anyway, making the warranty worthless.

I doubt I'll buy another Seagate unless it's a super deal.

ark_ader:
Buy Western Digital.  Seagate always runs too hot, or conk out.

Stick it in the freezer - well you never know..... :D

newmanfamilyvlogs:
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1050374/seagate-barracuda-7200-drives-failing
this?

Dervacumen:

--- Quote from: cotmm68030 on December 30, 2010, 07:58:35 pm ---http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1050374/seagate-barracuda-7200-drives-failing
this?

--- End quote ---

That's it.  Mine is a 500GB drive, but that's exactly what's happened, I'm very confident in my diagnosis.
I've lost plenty of drives, maybe 4-5 over the past 10-15 years or so and have never run in to this problem.  I've even rescued data after the freezer trick (it works great for a short time).  I just wondered if it's really very widespread or if, like most problems, the whiners always outweigh those that experience no problems so the problem really seems much larger than it is.
I will say that I purchased a cable to hack for this specific purpose on Amazon, and there were three reviews for the cable.  all three were bought to hack to correct this problem, so it's probably not a minor issue.  Apparently Seagate mods have been locking and deleting threads on their help forums related to this bug.

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