I understand. I'm still using Seagate in hope that they have their manufacturing and assembly process figured out now. This one issue has been going on for almost 2 years but it's starting to ramp up faster now. Again, only an FYI in case anyone is using them for critical info.
Bob- -----Original Message----- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Steven Barnes Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 1:13 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Seagate 7200.11 Hard Drives Bob, I agree, there are some issues out there that we have seen firmware issues in the past. The hot swappable scsi drives had serious issues a few years back. I had all kinds of issues getting them to hold a partition but Seagate found the issue called me and helped setup a separate computer to get the 8 drives flashed with the new firmware. They have always been so helpful. What I was disagreeing with was with others opinion that all Seagate is junk. Bob I appreciate your letting us know this information. I will inform my Techs to be on the lookout for these drives. Steve Barnes -----Original Message----- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Robert West Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 12:54 PM To: 'WISPA General List' Subject: Re: [WISPA] Seagate 7200.11 Hard Drives I'm also a system builder and have used 100% Seagate for a long time. My point is that the 500 to 1000gb Barracuda 7200.11 drives have very good chance of failure but it may take a year or 2 to show up. Bob- -----Original Message----- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Steven Barnes Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 11:54 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Seagate 7200.11 Hard Drives As a system builder. I disagree. I have sold seagate drives for 18 years. I built over 200 systems last year. I had 2 I had to RMA. I have returned 20% of Wd and 30% of hitachi. I will stay with Seagate. Get a good distributor like ASI . Steve On 4/20/10, Adam Kennedy <adamkenn...@omnicity.net> wrote: > Where do you guys buy your drives from that you have had such good luck with > WD and not Seagate? Since 1994 I have had countless failures with Maxtor and > Western Digital disks. In fact just a few weeks ago I had TWO Western > Digitals fail in the same server and they were Raid Edition disks! In my > lifetime I have had maybe two Seagate drives fail. > > It also makes a huge difference, with any brand, what model of drive you > buy. If you buy a cheap version of any of them then you are just asking for > issues. Western digital I would stick with anything "Black edition" or > better. Seagate I would stick with anything XT or better. Avoid the cheapy > versions of anything, most of the time those cheapy disks are not tested > before leaving the factory. > > -- > Adam Kennedy > Network Engineer > Omnicity, Inc. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On > Behalf Of RickG > Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 10:15 AM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Seagate 7200.11 Hard Drives > > In 25+ years of experience, Seagates & Maxtors have always been a let > down. Western Digital is the best. > > On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Robert West > <robert.w...@just-micro.com> wrote: >> I've had really good luck with the Seagates for a long time now but >> china-mart finally caught up to them. >> >> Bob- >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On >> Behalf Of RickG >> Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 10:08 AM >> To: WISPA General List >> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Seagate 7200.11 Hard Drives >> >> Friends dont let friends use Seagates :) >> >> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Robert West <robert.w...@just-micro.com> >> wrote: >>> FYI. >>> >>> >>> >>> If anyone is using Seagate 7200.11 SATA hard drives (500gb to the >> terabyte) >>> and have been experiencing random blue screens or lockups, they have >>> been >>> having firmware problems for awhile on these drives and you should backup >>> your data and send them back to Seagate via RMA. The 7200.11 can be >>> usually found on the top left hand corner. >>> >>> >>> >>> I've found that even in a raid, they can fail pretty much at the same >>> time >>> and thus thwarting the protection of the raid. >>> >>> >>> >>> I've talked to one other WISPA member who had this problem (As well as my >>> own experience with them - 5 sent back already on my own) and thought >>> others may want to look to see what's in their servers. They were >>> flashed >>> with the wrong firmware and experience a countdown of sorts then >> eventually >>> fail. 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