On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 2:20 AM, Alan Evans <ame.fedora@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Paolo Galtieri wrote: >> I can't believe that a drive would go bad >> after a few months use. I have other Seagate drives that have been in >> use for years without any issues. > > You should be aware that there is a certain firmware revision of > Seagate drives that has serious problems. *All* of my 7200.11 drives > have failed. Every one of them. I'm not kidding. I've not had any > issues with the 7200.12 drives. > > If you can get eyes on the drive itself or otherwise check the > firmware version and discover any .11 drives, destroy them with > prejudice. I can corroborate. I've had to RMA my 7200.11 3 times. I'm on my 4th drive. At least it came with a 5 year warranty... Fortunately it was only used for MythTV recordings so although we missed a few shows each time nothing serious was ever lost. Richard -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
