Seagate Barracuda Drives Failing at Alarming Rate

Category: Storage / Hard Drives
Posted: January 16, 2009 06:05PM
Author: ClayMeow

If you own a Seagate 1TB Barracuda 7200.11 hard drive, you may want to backup your data...soon. Barracuda drives made in Thailand (ref. ST31000340AS with firmware level SD15) have been failing all over the world, and owners are, not surprisingly, more than a little perturbed. If you have one of the suspect drives it's definitely recommended that you upgrade its firmware. Waiting to see if your hard drive fails is not wise, as if it does, the BIOS won't recognize it, thus preventing you from performing a firmware update. Seagate has yet to release any official statment on the matter.