Re: dying Seagate 500GB SATA drive?
- From: cpliu <spamfreeliu@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:28:48 -0800 (PST)
On Jan 28, 2:12 am, Odie Ferrous <odie_ferr...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I listened to your recording.That's too bad. Why would a HD have bad heads? I've just started
You have either bad firmware or bad heads.
No amount of freezing or playing around with utilities is going to bring
this drive back to life.
carrying it to work for 1.5 months. Before that, I've used it for a
while at home (without the need to move it around) without any
problems. Maybe I have it exposed (internal HD) so it got static? This
is an internal unit that I access it with a SATA to USB adapter. Or is
it because of the heat it generated? I carried another external HD to
work for 9 months without problems.
I have seen an enormous surge of recently-manufactured Seagate drives
(high-capacity) coming in for recovery - although admittedly mainly with
failed bearings rather than bad heads or firmware. It is an issue I
will be taking up with Seagate and posting on my website in the coming
days.
All my seagate HDs failed in the past. Except this one, they were
refurbished. I also had Maxtor, Western Digital drives. Some had
problems after a few years. None of them failed suddenly like this
one.
Looks like I should avoid Seagate from now on.
It's indeed a big lesson for me. I will backup from frequently from
now on.
.
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