So, I’ve seen a good number of shitty Seagate 7200.11 3.5″ SATA hard disks recently, and I’m especially nervous because my 2×500 RAID1′s backup is a 1TB Seagate 7200.11.
I just read on XLR8YourMac.com that a lot of folks are having their RAIDs decimated by these Seagate drives, and The Register also has some reporting on it. I’m a bit nervous, so much so that I’m probably going to pick up a Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB in the next couple of weeks. All of this crap reminds me of the good old IBM/Hitachi 75GXP DeathStar. I don’t think that the Seagates are experiencing the same mode of failure, but a bunch of dead hard drives are still a bunch of dead hard drives.
Looks like I’m gonna be phasing out my remaining Seagate drives unless Western Digital pulls some epic fail out of their ass.