Another Seagate Drive Bites the Dust

Published at: 11:05 am - Tuesday May 12 2009

Yet another Seagate drive I own bit the dust a few days ago.  The current victim is a Barracuda 7200.11 500 GB drive.  I can’t quite recall when I bought it, but it is still under warranty for quite some time. Before anyone asks – yes, I updated the firmware.  No, not the original “fix” [...]

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Seagate’s RMA Program Sucks

Published at: 11:12 am - Tuesday December 30 2008

I prefer Seagate drives over most others because I typically don’t have many issues with the drives, if at all. Recently though, a relatively new (6 mos. old) drive died on me, and I went to Seagate’s site to submit an RMA. Normally the process is pretty simple. I have RMA-d quite a few Western [...]

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