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The affected part numbers for the write caching delay issues are: 9JU138-300, 336 with firmware revisions SD15, SD17, or SD18.
Unresponsive for 30 seconds at a time.
I have 2 of these in a Windows Home Server. Every hour or so my drives start high activity, and there's a loud click every 30 seconds or so. If I look in the logs, there's an error like this every 30 seconds:
***ERROR: DEfileFromShadow(filename) took too long 5360.1575ms
Basically, the drive is timing out for 30 seconds or so, which exactly matches all of the trouble reports on the internet. These drives have a serious unresolved issue, and I would definitely suggest avoiding them until Seagate figures out what the problem is.
Here's the "consumable" snippet from an email that was sent to tech support/sales/AE's, etc.:
Seagate 1.5TB Customers,
Some Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB hard drives may show uncharacteristic operation when used with Mac and Linux operating systems in multi-drive configurations. Users may experiences pauses in video streaming applications or a dropped drive from RAID arrays. Customers seeing these symptoms should contact Seagate Technical Support for a firmware upgrade.
In order to assure the proper application of the new firmware, please email a description of the issues youre seeing to Seagate (discsupport@seagate.com) Please include the following disk drive information: model number, serial number and current firmware revision. Also, please describe your system,operating system and the application in use when the issue arose. We will respond, promptly, to your email request with appropriate instructions.
Was about to post the new price, but bkoo beat me to it.
In for 1. Couldn't resist. I think I'll just let this sit around for a week or two until there is more of a consensus on the firmware update. Who knows, the price may even come down by then.
The affected part numbers for the write caching delay issues are: 9JU138-300, 336 with firmware revisions SD15, SD17, or SD18.
Unresponsive for 30 seconds at a time.
I have 2 of these in a Windows Home Server. Every hour or so my drives start high activity, and there's a loud click every 30 seconds or so. If I look in the logs, there's an error like this every 30 seconds:
***ERROR: DEfileFromShadow(filename) took too long 5360.1575ms
Basically, the drive is timing out for 30 seconds or so, which exactly matches all of the trouble reports on the internet. These drives have a serious unresolved issue, and I would definitely suggest avoiding them until Seagate figures out what the problem is.
As I predicted would be the official outcome in many of the other Seagate 1.5TB threads here on FW this problem was a non-issue for 99% of these drives sold to PC users. Today Seagate officially announced a new firmware update to address the so-called "freeze" problem which they confirmed ONLY appeared in Linux and Mac multi-drive configurations. Hopefully this will put an end to FUD posts like the one above by mostly naive posters who either never actually owned one of these 1.5TBSeagate drives.
pc world: said:Seagate on Wednesday said it has fixed a bug affecting some Seagate Barracuda hard drives that caused applications to pause.
The bug resulted in the company's 7200.11 1.5T-byte hard drives hanging at certain times, which led to problems like pauses in video streaming applications. It also led to a failure to recognize drives in certain configurations. The hard drives showed "uncharacteristic operation" when used with the Macintosh and Linux OSes in multidrive environments, the company said in a statement.
To receive the firmware upgrade and instructions on how to install it, Seagate has asked customers to send the company an e-mail at discsupport@seagate.com describing the problems and system information, OS and the application in use when the issues arose. Seagate has also asked for the disk drive model number, serial number and current firmware revision. The company said it will respond promptly to e-mail messages.
I think some users had this problem using WHS (Windows Home Server) so it is not limited to Mac and Linux.
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