[mythtv-users] Seagate confirms problems with 1.5TB Barracuda drives

[David Rees]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 7:30 AM, Dave Badia <dbadia at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 9:57 PM, <f-myth-users at media.mit.edu> wrote:
>> It's sad---I've ordered a lot of Seagates and a lot of stuff from
>> Newegg, but it looks like this drive (and Newegg in general for disks)
>> seems like a bad idea.  I'm very glad I haven't bought one of the 1.5TB
>> disks and, while I was about to put together a new machine and probably
>> buy its disks from Newegg, I think I'll be using someone (anyone!) else
>> for at least the drive part of this unless it seems that it's only -this-
>> drive that Newegg isn't packing well...  (I haven't grovelled through
>> reviews of other drives on the site yet to see if there are complaints
>> about packing on those, too.)
>
> I received one of these drives from Newegg about 2 weeks ago.  It came
> encased in a cocoon of thick bubblewrap, held together by lots of packing
> tape.  I certainly didn't have any concerns about packing methods when mine
> arrived.  I've been using the drive since I got it, no problems thus far

Yep, all the drives I've ever ordered from Newegg have always been
packed very well. Either packed in a plastic clamshell then wrapped in
bubble wrap in a box full of peanuts, or the drive is wrapped in an
anti-static bag, wrapped in bubble wrap in a box full of peanuts.

Only had one drive shipped that way that died shortly after purchase -
coincidentally it was a 1TB Seagate 7200.11 drive - also running the
SD25 firmware. I bought two at the same time for a software RAID1
array, the other is still running fine after 6 months or so now as is
it's replacement which I got a week later. The dead 7200.11 drive
started showing tons of incorrectable sectors after 3-4 days of
operation and quickly failed SMART status.

-Dave