smartd reporting disk failing

[Richard Shaw]

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 2:20 AM, Alan Evans <ame.fedora at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Paolo Galtieri wrote:
>> I can't believe that a drive would go bad
>> after a few months use.  I have other Seagate drives that have been in
>> use for years without any issues.
>
> You should be aware that there is a certain firmware revision of
> Seagate drives that has serious problems. *All* of my 7200.11 drives
> have failed. Every one of them. I'm not kidding. I've not had any
> issues with the 7200.12 drives.
>
> If you can get eyes on the drive itself or otherwise check the
> firmware version and discover any .11 drives, destroy them with
> prejudice.

I can corroborate. I've had to RMA my 7200.11 3 times. I'm on my 4th
drive. At least it came with a 5 year warranty...

Fortunately it was only used for MythTV recordings so although we
missed a few shows each time nothing serious was ever lost.

Richard