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greengeek
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05 Feb 2009, 5:25 pm

I got some good news about my hard drive. I got my hard drive back and found out it was problem prone drive. It was a Seagate Barracuda 500GB 7200.11 which has a high failure rate. Sent it to Seagate for recovery no charge. :D
The are problems on both 500GB and the 1TB sizes of 7200.11 drives in which they just die.


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05 Feb 2009, 5:49 pm

I just send a Seagate FreeAgent (500 GB) back: After just two months this external HDD failed! It does not appear at lsusb, neither in the log-files, but makes "funny" sounds. It is only a backup-HDD, so there is not real data lost, but I wouldn't call it normal that a HDD fails just in such short period.



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05 Feb 2009, 10:49 pm

another in a long line of 'bad idea' drives. I remember one called a Bigfoot; a 7200rpm drive with a 5.25" platter...can you say centripetal force? or inertia?..;)