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Re:What is the best hard drive? by shampine on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @01:45PM (#8924687)
Are you referring to the botched firmware ones (I think the firmware revision was SD15)?

If so, at the time (~2008) I had an HTPC with 10 1TB-1.5TB drives with 6 of 10 affected by the firmware issues. I was able to successfully flash all my drives at the time with no data loss.

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Re:What is the best hard drive? by onethree on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @07:21PM (#8926717)
i built a pc for a family friend around that time... i'd spec'd it with a different drive, but they showed it to the IT guy at their work who recommended seagate. 6 months later the drive stopped working, and it had to be shipped to the other side of the world to be reflashed
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Re:What is the best hard drive? by shampine on Thursday January 22, 2015 @12:13AM (#8927651)
Sadly you could only flash them if they were still working, you had to ship them if they bricked. I saw the bulletin and promptly flashed all mine before failure. Big pita tho.
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