Karel Jansens • User • The Register Forums

Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB hard drive

Tuesday 27th January 2009 18:17 GMT Karel Jansens

Sooo....

When will it eat our data then?

0 0

Seagate isolates 'potential' Barracuda flaw

Friday 23rd January 2009 22:36 GMT Karel Jansens

Let's not rejoyce too soon...

@ John Bishop:

Have you checked your drive's cache since the reflash? People report on Seagate's own forum that after reflash their cache comes back as 0MB.

If that's truly the case (but who knows? Seagate does not answer questions in their own forum), then this "fix" is not a fix, but a deliberate disabling of one of your drive's features.

0 0

Tuesday 20th January 2009 20:13 GMT Karel Jansens

Seagate pays theregister?

You people (as in: the register et al) are apparently quick enough to report when Seagate "fixes" things, but not to be heard from when their "fix" f**ks things up even more. How big is your take anyway?

0 0

Monday 19th January 2009 11:24 GMT Karel Jansens

Serial # tool appears to be b0rked

I seems Seagate's "tool" to check via serial # if a drive is affected or not, is a bit off (or, alternatively, is a piece of **** put out to buy time, depending on how you think about Seagate). People who tried serials from dead drives, sometimes get back the message that their drive is not affected.

I would seriously urge people not to trust this tool, but wait for more news (if that's even coming, that is).

0 0