Seagate 7200.11 Drive Issues!

**MIG-31** · Feb 10, 2009, 07:44 AM

In case you aren't 100% up to date on all the latest tech news, there is something you might not know. Seagate has been having a lot of issues with there 7200.11 line-up of drives, problems that should concern everyone who has their drives.

Initially, problems seemed to be limited to the 1.5TB versions, drives were freezing during large video transfers and were then inaccessible. Thankfully, Seagate seemed to be openly admitting the problem, and doing things like offering free data recovery.
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Judas · Feb 10, 2009, 07:51 AM

counting them... 22 500gb Seagate 7200.11's.... zero failures....

(course i probably just jinxed them all now.. or something)

comp_ali · Feb 10, 2009, 08:09 AM

I still have Seagate 4GB from 10 years and no problems . hhehehe

Just Learnin' · Feb 10, 2009, 08:55 AM

I flashed all 6 of my 7200.11 500GB drives to the latest firmware due to this. Two of them had decided to up and disappear so I flashed them all as they were all on the list of drives known to have issues. One of them was insanely hard to even get to flash with their software. Make sure you backup all your info as well because I had to totally reinstall a Vista 64 RAID install because after the flash one drive was lost from the array.

aerospace · Feb 11, 2009, 03:17 AM

I purchased two of these 1.5tb drives and I did find issues. Driver issues actually. Nvidia drivers could not comprehend the size of these drives causing mega problems in my setup with the mcp 410/430 chipset & a OEM build of Vista 64 ultimate. Vista setup would not format was the first hint of a problem. After trying to load XP pro with no issues and super performance, I was led to believe that the default drivers in Vista were faulty. I circumvented the issue by downloading the lastest nvidia all in one driver on another pc and extracting the SATA driver for this chipset and then when I get to the "choose the partition" section of installing Vista, I chose the bottom left option of loading a driver and I used a pen drive to convey the SATA driver into the loadset. Presto! No problem in formatting and I get a 5.9 drive index on Vista! Problem solved without any firmware hiccups and all that other b.s. Seagate help was not much use. I just loaded it the same old way I used to have to load XP SATA drivers back in the day LOL!

CDsDontBurn · Feb 11, 2009, 04:48 AM

i wonder if i have the 7200.10 or 7200.11 drive at home...

Feb 10, 2009, 07:44 AM	#1
MIG-31 HardwareHeaven News Mod Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Nottingham,UK Posts: 55,739 Rep Power: 441 System Specs	Seagate 7200.11 Drive Issues! In case you aren't 100% up to date on all the latest tech news, there is something you might not know. Seagate has been having a lot of issues with there 7200.11 line-up of drives, problems that should concern everyone who has their drives. Initially, problems seemed to be limited to the 1.5TB versions, drives were freezing during large video transfers and were then inaccessible. Thankfully, Seagate seemed to be openly admitting the problem, and doing things like offering free data recovery. ____________ Source/Editorial: Virtual-Hideout __________________ Please Post Your News Submissions Here

Feb 10, 2009, 08:09 AM	#3
comp_ali Sniper Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Egypt Posts: 10,441 Rep Power: 331 System Specs	Re: Seagate 7200.11 Drive Issues! I still have Seagate 4GB from 10 years and no problems . hhehehe __________________

Feb 10, 2009, 08:55 AM	#4
Just Learnin' HardwareHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Posts: 1,414 Rep Power: 54 System Specs	Re: Seagate 7200.11 Drive Issues! I flashed all 6 of my 7200.11 500GB drives to the latest firmware due to this. Two of them had decided to up and disappear so I flashed them all as they were all on the list of drives known to have issues. One of them was insanely hard to even get to flash with their software. Make sure you backup all your info as well because I had to totally reinstall a Vista 64 RAID install because after the flash one drive was lost from the array.

Feb 11, 2009, 03:17 AM	#5
aerospace HardwareHeaven Newbie Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 19 Rep Power: 0	Re: Seagate 7200.11 Drive Issues! I purchased two of these 1.5tb drives and I did find issues. Driver issues actually. Nvidia drivers could not comprehend the size of these drives causing mega problems in my setup with the mcp 410/430 chipset & a OEM build of Vista 64 ultimate. Vista setup would not format was the first hint of a problem. After trying to load XP pro with no issues and super performance, I was led to believe that the default drivers in Vista were faulty. I circumvented the issue by downloading the lastest nvidia all in one driver on another pc and extracting the SATA driver for this chipset and then when I get to the "choose the partition" section of installing Vista, I chose the bottom left option of loading a driver and I used a pen drive to convey the SATA driver into the loadset. Presto! No problem in formatting and I get a 5.9 drive index on Vista! Problem solved without any firmware hiccups and all that other b.s. Seagate help was not much use. I just loaded it the same old way I used to have to load XP SATA drivers back in the day LOL!

Feb 11, 2009, 04:48 AM	#6
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