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SavannahLion:


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--- Quote from: Mauzy on February 02, 2009, 07:33:54 pm ---And to think I'm still running a computer with a puny 140 gigs of space. I completely missed the 3 and 5 hundred gig trend....

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Pfft! Amatuer ... we've got a 20gb and a 40gb in our main machine, and a single 20gb in my Wife's work machine  :laugh2:

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Heh, I've got the guts of an old BH6 PC all over with the 8GB hooked up to my laptop. The largest this particular machine has seen... the desktop, not the laptop. I had a 3GB drive installed in the old one originally.

Somewhere around I've got an Atari computer/console hybrid with no hard drive.  :P

Meanwhile, will some explain to me why Windows DD is finding more bytes than the Hex Editor does? ??? ???

cyapps:

Kind of sucks to have a formerly good company (in my experience) like seagate make such a mistake as releasing bad firmware on their drives (kind of an important piece of the puzzle). Seems like it would have been noticed in "testing", maybe they fired that division...

tommyinajar:

Maybe there is a reason Seagate has lowered their warranty from 5yrs to 3yrs now...

DrFrag:


--- Quote from: saint on February 02, 2009, 08:59:25 pm ---
--- Quote from: DrFrag on February 02, 2009, 08:20:02 pm ---The 1.5TB drives are okay if you have the newer firmware.  Firmware SD15, SD17 and SD18 are bad, but SD37 (I think) and CCxx are okay.  I'm running five of them with no problems.  All backed up, of course.  ;)

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I'm hoping that's the case, but I haven't heard any data to back that up yet (other than your own, of course). Any links to independent review or posted user reviews?

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I just Googled each firmware revision along with the word Seagate.  There are people posting the same experiences in a lot of different forums, and it looks like Seagate have tried to supress information on their own forum (at least to begin with).  The one thing I read in common with faulty drives was firmware revisions SD15, SD17 and SD18.  I have three SD37 drives and two CC1H drives so I had a vested interest in digging around.
By this point Seagate had put up a serial number checker on their site, and mine all passed clear.

Visitor Q:


--- Quote from: DrFrag on February 02, 2009, 08:20:02 pm ---The 1.5TB drives are okay if you have the newer firmware.  Firmware SD15, SD17 and SD18 are bad, but SD37 (I think) and CCxx are okay.  I'm running five of them with no problems.  All backed up, of course.  ;)

You can run the serial number through Seagate's web site to find if you have an affected drive.
http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207931


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+1

I updated the firmware on my drive before I even put 1mb on there. Had the drive for months now, zero problems.

People love to overreact.  :P


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