And be aware that some Seagate hard disks manufactured within the last
couple of years came with bad firmware that would "brick" the drive
after a while. It's possible (although unlikely) that some of those
drives are still sitting on store shelves or in their stock rooms. You
cannot go by the Model# on the package, because drives of varying
Model#s (according to the label on the drive itself) have been sold in
packages with the same "Marketing Model#". The Serial# is also
important. Seagate has online tools to indicate whether a particular
drive needs its firmware updated, and of course any update firmware
needed can be downloaded.
73
Alan NV8A
On 07/04/10 06:30 am, Neal Campbell wrote:
I use their drives in my premium configuration and the ones I have bought
are at the latest firmware levels so I feel safe!
The computer companies are very slow to ever admit a problem for some
reason. I guess I spend more time than most people on technical websites so
I get to see these things play out.
One thing I have learned however is whenever you see anything on your
computer that you do not understand, go to google and type in a 5 word
description of the problem and you will see if others are experiencing it. I
do it for everything, programming problems, hardware problems, operating
systems, etc. It always gives me good advice!
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