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Archive of entries posted on July 2009

Upgrading the Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 to firmware SD1A

So perhaps you have heard of Seagate’s little manufacturing issue with its internal 3.5-inch Barracuda 7200.11 1TB drives a while back — namely, that some drives shipping with SD15 firmware are dying horribly. I had the unfortunate experience of buying such a hard drive — the ST31000340AS — as a scratch disk for my [...]