theinquirer.net - 1/13/2009
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SEAGATE'S FLAGSHIP desktop Barracuda 7200.11 drives, in particular the 1TB (ST31000340AS) units, are failing at an alarming rate and prompting outrage from their faithful customers. A new self-bricking feature apparently resides in faulty firmware microcode which will rear its ugly head sometime ...
seagate.custkb.com - 1/18/2009
informationweek.com - 1/15/2009
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informationweek.com —
Seagate Technology is cutting thousands of jobs and
slashing executive salaries by as much as 25%, as...
the disk-drive maker grapples with the economic downturn that has hammered sales of personal computers that use the company's products. In a ...
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Seagate Cuts Jobs, Slashes Executive Salaries -- ...
theregister.co.uk - 1/16/2009
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1TB Seagate Barracudas Collapsing A Gogo, Users Say [Fail]
Gizmodo —
... The company—which has been deleting messages from customers reporting on the problem left, right, and center—has offered a software fix, but it's saying that people are not entitled to any other kind of compensation or replacement. I smell class-action lawsuit. [The Inquirer via ...
Seagate hit by woes of every kind - and you might want to back up that 1TB HDD
CrunchGear —
... which I urge you not to buy at the moment). And just lately the failures have been revealed to span not just the 1.5TB HDDs, but the perhaps more common 1TB ones. The failures after only a few months of use, described by the Inquirer as “a new self-bricking feature,” are actually not hardware-related. Faulty firmware just locks the thing up, and RMA centers are reporting 30-40% return rates, which probably means that at least half the drives are failing. ...
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