Your Seagat drive may brick

[Trooper110]

Seagate offers fix, free data recovery for bricked Barracudas - The Tech Report

Luckily there's a firmware update, and data recovery services Seagate is offering if that doesn't work.

[Savage_Hobo]

Oh man.... Looks like my new 1TB Seagate hard dive I got for Christmas is listed as being affected.... I've email the support guys and am hoping that I can just do a firmware update to fix it.... But I got the drive to use in a new Nexstar Drive Dock.... but it appears to be faulty as well... Oh man

[WalkinTarget]

1.5tb here and it looks like a newer firmware, but I have not even hooked it up yet, so no idea on its deficiencies, if there are any to deal with.

The infamous SD15,17 & 18 firmware units made in Nov/early Dec are the ones giving the most problems to end users so far.

[juneau]

I think i posted about this in someones 'spec me' thread not so long ago. Seagate is the new DeathStar, i mean Deskstar.

[Savage_Hobo]

Ya... I just checked the my firmware... SD15 Hopefully when I get my enclosure working I'll just be able to update the firmware...... argh...

[DougBob]

Seagate is the new DeathStar

Oh man, I was dying laughing on that one. Great one Juneau

[Zantheus]

I was talking wit a buddy of mine on IRC who is in the computer industry who works for AMD and he says all u need to do to ensure ur drive doesn't fail is make sure u run multiple drives in RAID....not sure why...he didnt have time to expand his discussion but he says he and his co-workers all have drives on SG's "questionable" list and in RAID they have had no issues

[Dead...Again]

Good thing I don't have any seagate drives