Segate 1TB Died Today

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Justintoxicated

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It still spins up and showed no signs of dying. It just simply is not recognized by the computer anymore. :(

I'm going to RMA but Don't like leaving data on the platters. I have a large Neo Magnet like 2" x 1" of solid Neo. Slapping this on top of it for a few hours should take care of corruping the data?
 
Mine went belly up just the other day too, after nearly a year. Exact symptoms as yours. I am going to have to RMA it too.

Does anyone know if they repair and maintain the data on the drive? Or do they just throw it out and send a new drive? I don't really care if someone sees the data on the drive. The data can be replaced, but it would be nice to get my data back.

Sorry for the thread steal. From a quick google search, a powerful magnet will corrupt some data on the drive to make it unreadable by conventional means. But the data will be not destroyed and will be recoverable. But someone is going to have to go out of their way to get it.
 
Yea obviously it should corrupt some of the data. I was just wondering since its a huge chunk of neo capable of breaking fingers etc if it would be enough to really wipe out the drive unless someone wants to go out of there way to recover it. Would leaving the magnet on it for a longer length of time make it more effective? I may have things back up on it like tax returns or whatever. Nothing top secret or anything though. ;)

They do offer data recovery and it should be possible on these drives since there should not be platter damage. Luky for me I have already restored the data from my WHS box.
 
you should run the drive and drop the magnet on top while its running for max effect of destroying data.
 
AFAIK I wouldn't destroy my drive like that. The RMA people will be like "well of course this drive is fubar'ed, he dinged it, magnetized it, and who knows what else. RMA DENIED!"

Do what you want!
 
Join the club.

After Y-E-A-R-S on the Seagate ship, I jumped over to the dark side and have been happy for the past year on WD drives.
 
Yep, my 500gig did the same thing right on the 4th of July. No more BIOS reconizing or anything, it still span up but just "poof" stopped working. Advanced RMA it cause I was so pissed to have my main machine down and they gave me a farking same refurbished model.

My next drive is gonna be WD.
 
Just wondering, what was the series and serials of the 1 TB Seagate drives you two owned? I'm starting to get worried about my own 1 TB Seagates; it's an uncomfortable feeling.
 
Model was ST31000340AS

The best brand HD is the one that is backed up! I decided to let the magnet loose on it. :)
 
The failure you describe is, no surprise, the firmware issues.
They can appear without warning, any time, no way to prevent them.
 
Justintoxicated said:
I thoguht they had fixed them?
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They released a series of firmwares that didn't fixed the problems for everyone and actually created problems for some who didn't have problems beforehand apparently. I admit I haven't been up to date regarding recent developments of the situation however.
 
Justintoxicated said:
Would leaving the magnet on it for a longer length of time make it more effective?.
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Length of time wouldn't have any significance. How much you wave the magnet around the drive, as close as possible in as many different directions would.
 
Nanoha said:
Just wondering, what was the series and serials of the 1 TB Seagate drives you two owned? I'm starting to get worried about my own 1 TB Seagates; it's an uncomfortable feeling.
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ST31000340AS
Frimware: SD15
Site Code: KRATSG

From what I have read, it was a ticking time bomb. :( I'll am going to RMA mine asap.
 
Yep. 340AS, SD15 is the model of my main two drives on my media server. Ouch. I haven't made backup that machine in quite a while. I guess it's time to make some arrangements.
 
You could probably leave it on top of a large tube television near the degaussing coil and cycle it a few times.
 
Seagate claims they fixed them.
According to everything I've seen from the drives? They didn't. They fixed one problem. And left quite a few others. The entire 7200.11 family is affected by these defects including OEM'd drives and "Enterprise" drives. I've seen this on every capacity, every model, at this point. If you value your data, I recommend backing up to another manufacturer, regularly.
 
Seagate still makes the best SAS drive on the market in terms of performance but I wouldn't recommend their SATA drives to anyone right now.
 
Yeah, my Seagate just died the other day too and lost a shit load of data (just when i got carbonite) in addition to an external. At the same time, I bought a new 1TB Western Digital and it was DOA. AND, last week my G-Tech died! I've had 4 drives crap out in the past 3 weeks after having excellent luck for the last 10 years. I'm beginning to think the quality of drives has taken a nose dive.
-Monica
 
wielandsmith said:
I'm beginning to think the quality of drives has taken a nose dive.
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No doubt about that. I have to wonder what affect harsher shipping methods have on these as well since I've noticed most of my boxes always come damaged and the hard drives are always horribly packed.
 
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