Dear Seagate,
What a love-hate relationship we have had. It has been 10 years, and while I have enjoyed much of it, I have suffered enough heartbreak. I think it is finally time to say goodbye.
Drive after drive has died on me (5 of them to be exact). Your firmware release to fix [...]
If you have not been by the site recently, I have updated a few my applications this week, and I have added a pair of new apps as well.
The newcomers include AudioX and RAIDFix.
AudioX is a labor of love several years in the works. A process born in batch files, migrated to Perl, and [...]
Bypass this article and fix your Intel RAID Drivers immediately using RAIDFix
I have three pieces of information to share with those of you looking to enable RAID on your Windows PC after having installed Windows without RAID enabled in your BIOS settings. Now that you have rebooted past a handful of blue screens and [...]
Awhile back, I posted a guide detailing how you can configure CopSSH on your home computer and use it to securely route your Windows Remote Desktop traffic in order to add an extra layer of security to the whole process.
Typically, once Putty was configured and used to create the SSH tunnel to the remote machine, [...]
Bypass this article and fix your Intel RAID Drivers immediately using RAIDFix
In a follow up to my Giganews recommendation a few months ago, I am happy to report that Giganews is now working up to 365 days of binary retention from the standard 200 days. Along with this new retention offering, they are cutting the price of their Diamond and Platinum unlimited memberships by 50% [...]
In a follow up to this post regarding bad firmware on Seagate’s Barracuda 7200.11 line of drives, I am happy to say that they have released a follow up to their original firmware fix. It is not exactly breaking news, but important enough to relay nonetheless.
You can pick up the firmware images here: http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207951
I flashed [...]
