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TheMax7 - Posted 10:28 am PDT 07/2/09 (662 Posts)
Rocking 8 of these from the same deal awhile back. No DOA's and all are humming along great in my server. Great bang for the buck right now. FYI these came to me as 2 singles boxes in a larger box. Very good packaging.
#2
dumbass - Posted 10:29 am PDT 07/2/09 (453 Posts)
#3
c3688t - Posted 10:32 am PDT 07/2/09 (70 Posts)
These drives are really bad and have problems with overheating and leak lubricant if you don't upgrade the BIOS.
#4
nuisance - Posted 10:37 am PDT 07/2/09 (10992 Posts)
#5
kal8 - Posted 10:40 am PDT 07/2/09 (1 Posts)
I've been leaking lubricant for years--if only I knew I just needed to update my bios
#6
Chunkyman - Posted 10:42 am PDT 07/2/09 (44 Posts)
I bought one a while ago from Dell for about 80 bucks shipped. Still works and it wasn't one from the batch that needed firmware upgrading. Seagate has a tool to check via S/N
#7
oscar5453 - Posted 10:50 am PDT 07/2/09 (731 Posts)
#8
rich00o - Posted 10:59 am PDT 07/2/09 (106 Posts)
how do you upgrade the firmware on a harddrive??
#9
sonichedgehog - Posted 11:09 am PDT 07/2/09 (39 Posts)
#10
doomed - Posted 11:46 am PDT 07/2/09 (874 Posts)
upgrading the firmware for a drive is not hard.. Not sure why everyone makes it out to be a difficult task.
#11
sguy2130 - Posted 12:15 pm PDT 07/2/09 (593 Posts)
Maybe I should have updated the firmware and paid $80 for this like everyone else.
#12
kiDDynamite - Posted 12:41 pm PDT 07/2/09 (30 Posts)
#13
achillesheel - Posted 12:52 pm PDT 07/2/09 (40 Posts)
#14
nuisance - Posted 12:55 pm PDT 07/2/09 (10992 Posts)
http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207931
#15
juan213 - Posted 12:58 pm PDT 07/2/09 (100 Posts)
2 drives waste port spaces
#16
dumbass - Posted 1:41 pm PDT 07/2/09 (453 Posts)
#17
revenant - Posted 1:43 pm PDT 07/2/09 (212 Posts)
leak lubricant? lol
I believe these might have been part of the batch with bad firmware.. there were various drives in 500gb, 1t, and 1.5t sizes affected, and in different ways... Seagate did some out with a good fw for them.. you need to load the fw onto a CD/DVD and then boot from that CD/DVD with only the hard drives you want to flash on your SATA controller... it should in theory find them and flash them then reboot your PC. there's more info here:
http://forums.seagate.com/stx/board/message?board.id=ata_drives&thread.id=2879&view=by_date_ascending&page=21
http://support.seagate.com/rightnow/Flash/gtla_locater/Seagate_sn_gtla.html
I believe these might have been part of the batch with bad firmware.. there were various drives in 500gb, 1t, and 1.5t sizes affected, and in different ways... Seagate did some out with a good fw for them.. you need to load the fw onto a CD/DVD and then boot from that CD/DVD with only the hard drives you want to flash on your SATA controller... it should in theory find them and flash them then reboot your PC. there's more info here:
http://forums.seagate.com/stx/board/message?board.id=ata_drives&thread.id=2879&view=by_date_ascending&page=21
http://support.seagate.com/rightnow/Flash/gtla_locater/Seagate_sn_gtla.html
#18
pastrychef - Posted 1:50 pm PDT 07/2/09 (295 Posts)
I got 4 last week running in a RAID 5. So far, so good.
#19
nuisance_el_gordo - Posted 2:22 pm PDT 07/2/09 (3993 Posts)
Oink
#20
cwtrex - Posted 3:19 pm PDT 07/2/09 (100 Posts)
Got one of these drives and it's been working fine.





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