Evidently there is a problem with the flash upgrade of the Seagate Barracuda HDD, and a bunch of customers are complaining. Seagate's forum is Here.
As per Jerry Pournelle's Chaos Manor day book, if you have the opportunity to upgrade, don't.
<edit> I am currently running a Maxtor (made by Seagate) 500GB primary and a Seagate 500GB secondary in a non-RAID configuration, so this caught my interest. </edit>
Seagate Barracuda Hard Drives.
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Rich
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Seagate Barracuda Hard Drives.
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Re: Seagate Barracuda Hard Drives.
This is kinda surprising. Seagate has the reputation of being the best consumer harddrives in the business. Their 5 year warranty makes WD's 3 year look kinda sad.
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Re: Seagate Barracuda Hard Drives.
I just bought a Barracuda 500 Gig. Haven't installed it yet.
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Re: Seagate Barracuda Hard Drives.
When did they start using Microsoft Windows as drive firmware at Seagate? 