Official Seagate 1TB drive failure announcement

[Elijah Lynn]

Sorry to hear that buddy. Hopefully a firmware update will fix this like the 1.5 TB’s.

I am gearing up to get some 1.5’s in a Drobo 2 (eSata) and really want to believe in Seagate. Maybe WD will come out with a 1.5 TB soon, I would feel better with them.

[Walter Biscardi]

Every single drive manufacturer will issue a statement like this from time to time. It’s inevitable. What this tells me is they had a bad run of drives.

Just like I recently received a PCI-E card that was not working correctly. turns out they had a bad run of cards and simply swapped it out.

Nobody is immune to this. Be thankful they actually notified you rather than wait for a flood of complaints on forums like this to acknowledge a problem.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[Sean Oneil]

[walter biscardi] “Nobody is immune to this. Be thankful they actually notified you rather than wait for a flood of complaints on forums like this to acknowledge a problem.”

There’s already been a massive flood. It’s more serious than you think. I’ve read the failure rate for this drive is as high as 40%. Take a look:
https://news.google.com/news?oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&client=firefox-a&um=1&tab=wn&nolr=1&hl=en&q=Seagate+7200.11&btnG=Search+News

I have two editing bays that have these drives. Unprotected RAID-0. Nothing on there I can’t restore, but I’m taking this very seriously and finding out if I have the bad firmware or not. So much for the MLK holiday.

Sean

[Walter Biscardi]

[Sean ONeil] “I have two editing bays that have these drives. Unprotected RAID-0. “

I gave up on RAID 0 about two years ago now. Too much to worry about there so it’s RAID 5 and up for us now. We still have a couple of LaCie S2S RAIDs that run RAID 0 but we only use them sparingly anymore.

Knock on wood, we’re still rocking strong.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[Sean Oneil]

RAID-5 is better. No doubt.

Sean

[Margus Voll]

Hi.

Even raid 5 is not a miracle. Some day it might “burn” also. Few separate backups in separate places is more safe. it is more risk management question than drives.

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Margus

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[Sean Oneil]

I’m trying to develop an interesting backup system in-house, just haven’t gotten around to it yet. The idea is to use Time Machine to backup media, but make it work kind of like a Drobo.

I found the components to put together a SATA/SAS JBOD enclosure that holds 15 hot swappable disks with NO TRAYS (like the Drobo) for less than $800. It would connect to an old G5 on our network. Each of the 15 disks would be shared Time Machine disks. When they all fill up, take out the one with the oldest data, store it (there’s your permanent backup), and replace with a new drive.

If anyone’s interested, these are the components:
One of these: https://addonics.com/products/raid_system/rack_overview.asp

And 3 of these:
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816215083

Note, those look like trays but they’re not. They’re just flip-open lids.

Also note I have not done this yet so don’t assume anything. I’m sure it will work great, but I have a habit of being too cavalier about these things.

Sean

[Walter Biscardi]

[Sean ONeil] “The idea is to use Time Machine to backup media, but make it work kind of like a Drobo. “

Time Machine was a complete failure here when it came time to actually retrieve and restore stuff so I just use the Backup function of Carbon Cloner which works extremely well so far.

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[Archie Cruz]

“To help determine if you need to pursue this any further, you will need to check your model number, serial number and firmware revision. This can be done in Windows – it’s easy! ”

I take it it’s a Windows only issue? No mention of a Mac Fix

[Elijah Lynn]

[walter biscardi] “[Sean ONeil] “The idea is to use Time Machine to backup media, but make it work kind of like a Drobo. ”

Time Machine was a complete failure here when it came time to actually retrieve and restore stuff so I just use the Backup function of Carbon Cloner which works extremely well so far. “

This is good to know. I have a Raid 5 (1.5 TB, 4×640 GB WD) that I use a Seagate 1.5 TB to backup to and have been wondering about how that was going to work when restoring all my data to a new Raid 5 array.

I will be switching to a CalDigit Raid card from the current Apple Raid I am using. We have another computer using it for a 2 drive Raid 1 and I think they can get by with the Apple raid and I can abuse the CalDigit. My idea was to just take the time machine and wipe the Apple R5, build a new CalDigit R5 and then restore backup. Maybe I will just wipe the Time Machine and do a Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC) to the 1.5 TB instead.