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Seagate launches 2TB Constellation drive.

Posted by Siddanth on February 5th, 2009

After Western Digital introduced its first ever 2TB Hard disk, now its turn for Seagate to fire back with their 2TB Hard disk.Seagate’s 2TB constellation drive is expected this September and is mainly exciting because it runs at a full 7200RPM while Western Digital’s model operates at an eco-friendly, undisclosed speed.

Given that as hard drives get more storage it only takes longer for systems to seek out their data, speed is an especially important point. Then again, Western Digital’s model is out now for $300. We’ll be curious what Seagate’s fatty Constellation goes for when it arrives later this year.

Seagate announced both the 2.5-inch Constellation and the 3.5-inch Constellations. Both drives will ship with either a SATA or a Serial-Attached SCSI interface, the Constellation will be Seagate’s first to ship with a SAS 2.0 interface.Seagate didn’t announce the prices of its Constellation drives.

After the review by Extremtech for Western Digital 2TB HDD they found that WD apparently sacrificed some performance for a quieter, lower-power drive. Seagate, on the other hand, says that the Constellation ES was the only 7200-RPM 2-Tbyte drive on the market.

Thanks to Gizmodo for news.

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Tags: Barracuda 7200.11, Seagate, Western Digital

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Seagate new firmware fails.

Posted by Siddanth on January 22nd, 2009

As per my previous post regarding the release of new firmware fix used for correcting issues concerned with Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 HDDs has turned out to be a failure.Seagate has originally quoted that all users who are facing the issue would be offered a free firmware upgrade by contacting them using the phone numbers and email. Now AnandTech decided to upgrade all their Seagate drives with this latest firmware and what they get is bricked drives.This is what Anandtech quoted

We decided to follow Seagate’s instructions and updated several of our other Barracuda 7200.11 drives today that were identified to have suspect firmware with the revised SD1A firmware. Our ST3500320AS (500GB) and ST3640330AS (640GB) drives are bricked now. It appears this is a widespread problem, once again, and Seagate has pulled this firmware. We do not have a response from Seagate yet, but how in world they let this one get by qualification testing is beyond us. At this time, do not flash your drives if you have the SD1A firmware.

Seagate figured out the SD1A firmware problem and has posted a new set of instructions for owners of their drives. Our ST3500320AS (500GB) and ST3640330AS (640GB) drives were bricked by the previous firmware update. We have good news to report as the latest firmware brought our drives back to life. Granted, our OS drive on the ST3640330AS will need a new OS load as a core DLL file was apparently damaged when the drive bricked, but all other data on the drive was recoverable. We suggest trying this new firmware now.

So all Seagate users download the latest firmware instructions.Please check this link for more info.

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Tags: Barracuda 7200.11, Seagate

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Seagate offers new firmware fix for all problematic Barracuda 7200.11 HDDs

Posted by Siddanth on January 19th, 2009

This post is to all those who are having issues with their Seagate Hard disks.Seagate has issued an official statement yesterday,acknowledging all recent problems with some Barracuda 7200.11 drives. Based on the information posted in the company’s forums here,select Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1TB 3.5-inch hard drives made in Thailand, suffer from a firmware issue that bricks the HDDs after a short period of time. After three to five months of normal operation these defective hard drives will suddenly lock-up as a protective measure and prevent the system from recognizing the drive from then onwards.

In most cases the information won’t be lost, but the drive will be completely useless, changing the drive’s electronics won’t help much either. This problem occurs not only to the 1TB Barracuda models, but to Seagate 1.5TB, 640GB, 500GB, 320GB and 160GB Barracuda 7200.11 drives, along with some Maxtor and ES.2 models. That’s pretty disturbing, but now Seagate will provide its customers with an updated firmware if their drive is problematic.

Company’s spokesman Mike Hall says

Seagate has isolated a potential firmware issue in certain products, including some Barracuda 7200.11 hard drives and related drive families based on this product platform, manufactured through December 2008.

In some circumstances, the data on the hard drives may become inaccessible to the user when the host system is powered on.To determine whether your product is affected, please visit the Seagate Support web site here.

Support is also available through Seagate’s call center: 1-800-SEAGATE (1 800 732-4283).Customers can expedite assistance by sending an email to Seagate (discsupport@seagate.com). Please include the following disk drive information: model number, serial number and current firmware revision.

There is no data loss associated with this issue, and the data still resides on the drive. But if you are unable to access your data due to this issue, Seagate will provide free data recovery services. Seagate will work with you to expedite a remedy to minimize any disruption to you or your business.

Thanks to techPowerUp for news.

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Tags: Barracuda 7200.11, Seagate

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