Seagate drive woes fixed?
If you own a Seagate Barracuda 7200.11, ES.2 SATA or DiamondMax 22 hard drive, you might like to check out Seagate's latest firmware update.Ars Technica have detailed the ongoing problems with these drives since their release last year: "Although most worked without issue, a significant minority of buyers reported that the drives would randomly pause for 15-30 seconds while under load or when configured in a RAID array." The firmware upgrade to fix that had a glitch in it that either "either A) didn't work or B) bricked a drive that had formerly been in perfect working order."
Seagate reckon they've cracked it now. Here's details of the affected drives...
Barracuda 7200.11 |
Barracuda ES.2 SATA |
DiamondMax 22 |
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Comments
Hi Jeff
How do we upgrade an external drive with the new Firmware, it appears it is only for a bootable drive. Thanks for your help
Posted by: Don | March 14, 2009 7:59 AM