(image found on cnet news website)I had a feeling Seagate would fix the buggy patch they released earlier this week with one that works like it is suppost too. To recap on what this patch is for: a series of Seagate drives had some issues that when being used on a machine for a certain period of time they would sease to work properly. Many people have even said that their data was gone.
Seagate said earlier this week and still says the data is not gone and they will work with the consumer to retrieve the missing data. The affected drives were the Barracuda 7200.11, Barracuda ES.2 SATA & DiamondMax 22 range of drives. The issues were affecting some of the drives not all. Typically the problematic drives were manufactured through December 2008.
Seagate has said "While we believe that the vast majority of customers will not experience any disruption related to this issue, as part of our commitment to customer satisfaction, Seagate is offering a free firmware upgrade to proactively address those with potentially affected products. This new firmware upgrade corrects compatibility issues that occurred with the firmware download provided on our support website on Jan. 16. We regret any inconvenience that the firmware issues have caused our customers."
I currently have two of the Seagate 1.5 TB drives and I have been working with them and even pushing them a bit by moving data across them to see if any issues pop up. The drives I have appear to be working fine with no problems.
Seagate warns of firmware problem with Barracuda hard drives (MacWorld.com)
Seagate says it now fixes 7200.11 drives for real (cnet news.com)
Seagate Posts Hard Drive Fix (Information Week)
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