As you all know, the 7200.11 series of HDDs have been failing within 4 months of usage. Seagate claims that they are aware of this issue, and has released a firmware update that was supposed to fix it. All 7200.11 Barracuda 1 TB, 750 GB, 500 GB, 320 GB drives are affected (including server counterparts).
However, the firmware update did not work initially. This afternoon, they released another update which changed the firmware upgrading utility, and some had successes flashing the 750 GB and 1 TB drives, however, 99.9% of people that flashed on the 500 GB (ST3500320AS) bricked their drives.
People with multiple 500 GB drives had all of them bricked as the tool automatically flashes all of the detected models.
This thread is known as the "thread of the bricked 500 gig cudas":
http://forums.seagate.com/stx/board/...cending&page=1
This is where all people that have bricked their 500 GB drives with this new firmware posts.
This is the original 7200.11 firmware issue thread (official, stickied):
http://forums.seagate.com/stx/board/...thread.id=4771
Tonight, Seagate decides to remove the firmware from the site.
http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/cr...p?DocId=207951
"Note: This file has been temporarily taken offline as of Jan 19, 2008 8PM CST for validation."
A bit too late. I'm sure lucky I did not flash the firmware today. I played it smart and waited for other people to try it out first. Someone at the Seagate firmware testing center will most likely get fired soon. This is a big widespread problem.
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