What happens to the company Seagate drives past months, like detective stories. In autumn 2008, complaints began to thicken users too frequent failure of these reservoirs. Over time it became clear that the lion's share of bad drives suffer the same symptoms. Drives defined in the BIOS, but their capacity is equal to 0. Seagate, meanwhile, denied any problems at all statistically normal percentage . Over time, this percentage has grown so much that bearand has become meaningless. Then the company acknowledged the problem and invited users to test their drives for defects by serial number, as well as download new firmware version, which will eliminate the problem. Unfortunately, the "corrected" version of firmware was a flaw that led to the death of the program disk in some cases, so that soon the information and firmware were removed from the site of Seagate.
The crux of the problem boils down to an error, which resulted in damage to the drive and system information as a result, it inoperable. This error occurs only during the startup disk, which makes it especially dangerous manifestation in RAID arrays, after restarting the computer may lead to failure of several disks. This problem is not susceptible to all the disks, but only the Barracuda 7200.11, DiamondMax 22, SV35, and Barracuda ES.2. Seagate claims that now come with factory discs already corrected firmware and HDD Barracuda 7200.12 series, and is deprived of the problem.
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