Seagate SD15 Firmware based drives...

Not that this is any surprise but the SD15 firmware is crap.  And not just crap on the 1.0 and 1.5 TB drives.  All of the 500 GB drive are also crap.  I had to replace 3 SD15 drives in the last 3 months.  Twice in the last 6 weeks.

On the upside, they were replaced under warranty from Seagate with a new updated firmware series of 7200.11.

But at the end of the day, I am now once bitten bigtime on this.  The next drives I get will be back to Hitachi, Samsung or Western Digital.

My Oh My With The Hard Drives...

Updated on Sunday, May 17, 2009 at 7:55PM by Jason Price

Doesn’t it just suck to be me…

After having to RMA a new 500 GB due to an iminent failure warning from S.M.A.R.T. (Which I am STILL waiting on!!!), the boot drive in my newly put together WHS box dies!!!

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The tale of Dying Drives and Free Space...

Updated on Monday, March 30, 2009 at 8:51PM by Jason Price

Well, my new Seagate 500 GB drive overheated and almost failed totally after only 8 days of use.  The RMA is under way but there is one thing that I have now truly realized is a big deal…

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Another NAS for MASS Storage...

Tech5 and Digital Home Canada are reporting on a new NAS from Iomega, the people that gave us the ZIPDisk.

The 1 TB unit costs $299 and a 2 TB unit will cost $479.  Given the prices of the individual drives, these prices are just too steep.  NewEgg is now selling the Western Digital 1 TB drive for only $130 or less and the 1.5 TB drives are now below $200 in either Canada or the US.  And the 500 GB drives that are in the 1 TB NAS are only $50-$60 a piece.

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Storage, Storage, Storage

Although Seagate announced their new 1.5 TB drive back in July, availability has only just kicked in over the last couple of weeks.

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