I learned from personal experience that firmware corruption leading to
an apparent loss of drive occurs frequently with the WD "My Book" series
of 1TB, 2-slot entry level RAID0/RAID1/JBOD USB2 NAS.
Just what you want in a external backup drive, 3 or 5 year warranty or
not. ;-)
- Bob Mann
Aryeh Goretsky (home) wrote:
Hello,
I wonder if this issue might be due to the firmware on the hard disk
drives
being corrupt. Seagate had a problem recently with their Barracuda
line of
3.5" SATA hard disk drives where the drive would disappear from in the
BIOS
when the firmware was corrupted.
Regards,
Aryeh Goretsky
At 12:23 PM 7/10/2009, you wrote:
Message: 4
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 17:13:19 -0700 (PDT)
From: Laurence Spiegel <[email protected]>
Subject: [Thinkpad] Seagate ST9160821A MBR track failure?
To: [email protected]
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Seagate ST9160821A? MBR sector issue??
?
This is said to be a reliable drive (160GB, 5400), but internet
chatter has reports of the sectors holding the MBR going bad.?
Googling "ST9160821A mbr" seems to indicate there was a bad batch at
some point.? Is there any way to check such a drive for future
reliability?? Was that an isolated bad run, or is is common with this
model??
?
Thoughts?
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