Another Catastrophic Drive Failure

Bricking Seagate SATA disks in IBM Servers

I have to confirm whether it's just IBM servers or not. Neither Ibm or Seagate have responded to inquiries from the Bunker. Seagate just had a rash of drives with a similar problem in January. They say that this is a firmware problem too, and that no data loss is involved, just unavailability. While that is good news, unavailability is almost as untenable. Doesn't encourage a feeling of confidence in Seagate products. they are not the company they once were.

I've become increasingly unimpressed with modern 21st century hard drives and am eagerly anticipating the arrival of cheap SSD's on the market because of it.

Backup! backup! backup!