2 yr old Seagate hard drive died, firmware issue?
I put a new 7200.11 500 GB boot drive in my computer when I built it in January '09. I had it set up with 60 and 405 GB partitions for the OS and for backup storage.
A few days ago, after a restart, the computer would no longer find the boot drive. I tried a bunch of different SATA cables and different connectors, CMOS resets, etc, but nothing worked. I put the drive in a different computer and it could not see the drive either. And boot up time was multiplied by about 3.
I did some online research, and it seems Seagate had a firmware issue with the version that I had, SD15, that would lock up the drive like it did to me. 2 years it ran fine, then suddenly it doesn't work at all.
So the drive is on its way to Seagate now for free data recovery and maybe replacement, we'll see what I get back.
I have always used Seagate drives, and this is the only failure ever, I was quite disappointed. Anyone else have this happen to them?
A few days ago, after a restart, the computer would no longer find the boot drive. I tried a bunch of different SATA cables and different connectors, CMOS resets, etc, but nothing worked. I put the drive in a different computer and it could not see the drive either. And boot up time was multiplied by about 3.
I did some online research, and it seems Seagate had a firmware issue with the version that I had, SD15, that would lock up the drive like it did to me. 2 years it ran fine, then suddenly it doesn't work at all.
So the drive is on its way to Seagate now for free data recovery and maybe replacement, we'll see what I get back.
I have always used Seagate drives, and this is the only failure ever, I was quite disappointed. Anyone else have this happen to them?
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Confirmed. No one has ever had a hard drive fail on them for any reason in history, ever
Srsly? WTF are you looking for?
You bought a consumer-grade Hard Drive and it failed after 2 years. Regardless of the reason, this is completely and utterly normal.
But I've always run Seagate drives, and some have been 5-6 years old before I took them out of service. This one was 2 years old and as near as I can tell it was the firmware. I called the Seagate repair place in Chicago today, and they said they'll let me know what's up once they get it and check it out.
What are NON-consumer grade drives? What brands or models?
Again, you're looking for additional answers where there are none to be had. You experienced a known bug with a known disastrous consequence (provided it was actually the firmware bug, of course).
As for non-consumer-grade drives, every manufacturer makes them (Hitachi, Seagate, Samsung, and WD), they're just not always available for regular purchase, and may not be on the interface you need. In my experience, most enterprise-grade drives are SAS (Serial-Attached SCSI), which would require a specialized drive controller that most consumer-grade motherboards will not carry due to their high additional expense.
If you really want to increase drive reliability/availability without spending ridiculous amounts of money, start RAID-ing (not 0, of course).
Don't I know it. We got a bad batch of them from Seagate at work. Had to replace about 4 of them out of the case of 24 (I think) within weeks of installing them. Pain in the ass.