Seagate new firmware kills HDD

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Seagate Hard Drives are selling like hot cakes but some people facing serious problems with them(don’t know why). So as every company, Seagate offers firmware update for their Barracuda hard drives & guess what? Those who upgraded SD1A firmware got nothing but bricked hard drives.

*www.techtrance.net/2009/01/pc-hardware-news/seagate-new-firmware-kills-hdd/

New firmware will be available soon. I think within in 24hrs

Seagate offers free data recovery for faulty drives.

Why upgrade a firmware, especially on a HD when it works fine?

They have fixed the bug. Check this links :

*www.techreport.com/discussions.x/16276
*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=106610

I've flashed my 500GB 7200.11 series 32MB buffer disk on 23rd of this month.