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Seagate External Hard Drives

gigabyte said:
Bill (and anyone else with 500gb or 1 tb Seagate drives) make sure you check the Seagate website, they had a firware update a few months back for quite a number of their drives particularly the 2 I mention above. Apparently these drives had a habit of turning into bricks and were useless until the update is applied, of course all data on the drive if it has failed would be lost, but if you apply the new firmware the drive works fine. I picked up 3 of them from a local shop for nothing and flashed them and they have been working great.

I have had good luck with Seagate over the years, not my absolute favorite, but I would never rule them out when shopping for a drive... just my humble opinion...
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Thanks Mike,

Good to know. I'll look for that.


Things have gone well with my Seagates so far.



Bill
 
Milton Shupe said:
Okay, in 1971 the IBM 360/20 I worked on had 12K RAM and no hard drives until 6 months later when we added 2 7.5MB hard drives, together the size of a desk. The disks were made up of 8-9 16" platters and each drive held a total of 7.5MB. The disks were removable/dismountable.

Of there were no monitors, and it had no console. All communication was done through dial type switches to alter register settings to start a job or end a job.
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Jebus Milton, that's like 2 steps removed from the abacus. Seriously though I remember going up to the radar tower with my old man when I was kid(early 70s) and they had a whole floor for the SAGE computer. Same era.

Regards, Rob

P.S. I had a first generation 150Gb WD Raptor fail on me after 1 year, but I must say I was very happy with the warranty service.
 
lol wow my WD 80 gigs is 1.5 years old droped oh god 150 times case cracked open on one drop still humming along just nicly. I got it a good home the other day so no more drops now i hope.
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I've been using WD external drives for about a year now 2x 500Gig and 2x 1TB, reformatted to NTFS and never a problem... knock on wood. Never managed to come to grips with their Automatic backup software though but I use all four drives solely for backing up my files manually. Both 500Gig drives have identical content as do both 1TB drives :kilroy: Paranoia or common sense?
 
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