New Seagate Firmware Patch Breaks Barracudas HDDs
By Jenny • Jan 28th, 2009 • Category: Mobile Computing Accessory NewsA few years ago International Business Machines, popularly known as IBM was unable to develop fault free Deskstar 75GXP hard disk drives. The company formed a negative image in the market and users were used to calling the Deskstar drives Deathstars. History has now repeated itself. The only difference is this time the Seagate is on the target.
Recently, the company’s firmware patch malfunctioned badly for the users of barracuda 7200.11 hard disk drives with DiamondMax22 and Barracuda ES.2 models, such as the Seagate Barracuda ES.2 250 GB, for example. The firmware bug caused sudden crash of 500GB and 1TB Barracuda hard drives. The company has withdrawn the firmware update for further development, fixing and extensive lab testing. As of now the users are advised to roll back to the previous firmware as Seagate moves in to fix the problem. The company however claims that the firmware malfunction do not results in data loss. All the stored stuff still resides on the drive.
According to Seagate,” There is no data loss associated with this issue, and the data still resides on the drive. But if you are unable to access your data due to this issue, Seagate will provide free data recovery services. Seagate will work with you to expedite a remedy to minimize any disruption to you or your business.”
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