CRITICAL: Seagate Hard Drive failures (see if your hard drive is affected)

[Visual C#]

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I suggest you click on the link and find out:

Seagate offers fix, free data recovery for bricked Barracudas - The Tech Report

Is your hard drive possibly affected? Check out:

Seagate Knowledge Base

In summary:

If you have any Seagate hard drive purchased in the last few months, BACK UP now before its too late.

EDIT:

Stickying this thread as this is is something that every computer user should know.

[YJOB]

unsa may action ani?
angay unta na i-pull out ang mga stocks diha sa mga shop para way dimalas makapalit.

[vladmire]

unsa may action ani?
angay unta na i-pull out ang mga stocks diha sa mga shop para way dimalas makapalit.

firmware update ra cguro. unta!

[Visual C#]

The major issue is: there is no firmware update from Seagate available yet.

Here are the hard drives affected:

Barracuda 7200.11

ST31000340AS
ST31000640AS
ST3750330AS
ST3750630AS
ST3640330AS
ST3640630AS
ST3500320AS
ST3500620AS
ST3500820AS
ST31500341AS
ST31000333AS
ST3640323AS
ST3640623AS
ST3320613AS
ST3320813AS
ST3160813AS

Barracuda ES.2 SATA
ST31000340NS
ST3750330NS
ST3500320NS
ST3250310NS

DiamondMax 22
STM31000340AS
STM31000640AS
STM3750330AS
STM3750630AS
STM3500320AS
STM3500620AS
STM3500820AS
STM31000334AS
STM3320614AS
STM3160813AS

From what I heard, drives made in Thailand were most likely to fail.

For now, we are so screwed.

I bought a 500 GB Seagate Barracuda SATA last November 2008. Most people who posted in the Seagate forums had their hard drives fail after 3 months. So it looks like mine is due next month. Whoopee-doo...

[AMD_infinium05]

im so screwed ....... ST3500320AS in my hood.... (

[EarlZ]

I never had ANY luck with seagate drives, and now this from them.. whats wrong with seagate lately?

[isyot_daut]

wtf...bag0o ng ko kapalit sa gaisano og 500gb nila nga 7200.11....hayz first pa gani format nag tingog2x na...ako gpailisan sa gaisano interpace dn mau ghapon ni....myta dli ni mamatay...kapoy back up sa files...

[COMCAM]

Mine is not on the list but it already have bad sectors, maypa akong IDE kai still going strong!

[AMD_infinium05]

SD15 ang firmware version sa ako drive... in which other people from seagate forum is claiming having problems pud... (

Seagate said DECEMBER 2008 harddisks are most likely to fail specifically those made from thailand, my drive was bought November 11, 2008,and my drive is labelled Made in China... how this would sound likE? Does it make sense? am I unlikely having the bad firmware... since technically my drive was not manufactured december 2008.

their website chat support is lazy.... i guess too many people are in panick for their datas.

[Visual C#]

From what I read, even drives Made in China were affected. The bricking is also more likely to happen during power cycles.

Do we have a Seagate service center here in Cebu? Is the one in SM a service center or just a retail branch?