Posted 01/16/2009 at 07:07:48pm

Intel Q9550 with crappy stock heatsink
Evga  8800GTS 320MB not 256MB--really that's a Vista bug!
Kingston valueram 800mhz ddr2 8GB
Intel DP35DP motherboard
SB X-Fi Xtremegamer
Plextor sata px755sa burner
150GB and 74GB rapto

You can download seatools for windows and it will tell you your firmware,etc.

Personally, I have the 1TB internal and 1.5TB external and haven't had any problems so far "knock on wood".

I've been buying Seagate for years now due to 5yr warranty and reliability since I've never had one fail vs Maxtor and Wester Digital drives which always seem to go bad on me in the past.

But now I'm holding off on buying any more Seagate until they clear this up since I know they released an update for the 1.5TB drives and when I searched their knowledgebase a while back they also had a firmware update for certain 500GB and 1TB drive to fix a disc cache issue I thought but I don't see  how that has anything with the drives going bad early?

Anyways, I just wish I knew someone at Google that would spill the beans on which hard drive manufacturer's drives seemed to die before the others since they did some like 2 year survey on off the shelf hardware they used a while back or something and admitted that certain brands which they wouldn't say died faster than others!!!

Posted 11/19/2008 at 03:28:03pm

 Yeah reminds me off all the people that keep giving their money away to the casino's. They keep giving the little money they have away hoping for a big payout they the facts show will most likely never happen. Besides if she was a nurse she probably hated her job and was looking for a way out.

Intel Q9550 with crappy stock heatsink

Evga  8800GTS 320MB not 256MB--really that's a Vista bug!
Kingston valueram 800mhz ddr2 8GB
Intel DP35DP motherboard
SB X-Fi Xtremegamer
Plextor sata px755sa burner
150GB and 74GB raptor

Posted 11/08/2008 at 06:22:12pm

 I already posted about it on here:
<a href="http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.asp?m=559728&mpage=1&key=&#559728">Symptom:
 
When building a new Windows Vista system, you
are unable to partition and format the full 1.5 TB capacity on NVIDIA
chipsets.  During the format, Windows Vista hangs with the message that
it cannot continue the drive format.  See Solution 1 or Solution 2
below. 
When adding a second drive to an existing Windows
Vista System, you are unable to partition and format the full 1.5TB
capacity on NVIDIA chipsets.  See Solution 3 below. 
</a>
Or it could be related to the bug that hit some of the 1TB drives here:
<a href="http://seagate.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/seagate.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=5217&p_created=1203714920&p_sid=FH63Gpij&p_accessibility=0&p_redirect=&p_lva=5344&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb3J0X2J5PSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9MjIxLDIyMSZwX3Byb2RzPTAmcF9jYXRzPTAmcF9wdj0mcF9jdj0mcF9zZWFyY2hfdHlwZT1hbnN3ZXJzLnNlYXJjaF9ubCZwX3BhZ2U9MSZwX3NlYXJjaF90ZXh0PWZpcm13YXJlIHVwZGF0ZXM*&p_li=&p_topview=1">

A small number of Barracuda 7200.11 drives with firmware
versions SD04 or SD14 may show and utilize only part of the available
cache.  Please follow these steps to ensure that your system recognizes
the full cache.
</a>
Well I only own the 1.5TB seagate external and haven't had any problems with it myself but others are  on it which I am not.
Intel Q9550 with crappy stock heatsink
Evga  8800GTS 320MB not 256MB--really that's a Vista bug!
Kingston valueram 800mhz ddr2 8GB 
Intel DP35DP motherboard
SB X-Fi Xtremegamer
Plextor sata px755sa burner
150GB and 74GB rapto