Re: [Fed-Talk] Which Seagate 1 TB drives are a problem?
Re: [Fed-Talk] Which Seagate 1 TB drives are a problem?
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Which Seagate 1 TB drives are a problem?
- From: "Reichard, Martin (NIH/NIAID) [C]" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 15:14:44 +0000
- Thread-topic: [Fed-Talk] Which Seagate 1 TB drives are a problem?
You can check any serial number at this Apple site:
http://www.apple.com/support/imac-harddrive/
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On 10/17/12 10:52 AM, "Myers, John (NIH/NICHD) [C]" <email@hidden>
wrote:
>Not to say that correlation implies causation but ever since Seagate moved
>their HD manufacturing to China, I've seen many more fail than drives
>still being produced in Singapore, Malasia, and Thailand as most WD and
>Hitachi's still are.
>
>It would be nice if Apple would release a series of serial numbers that
>could be affected.
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>Chris
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>On 10/17/12 10:32 AM, "Michael Kluskens" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>>"Apple has determined that certain Seagate 1TB hard drives used in
>>21.5-inch and 27-inch iMac systems may fail. These systems were sold
>>between October 2009 and July 2011."
>>
>>Is anyone aware of the range of Seagate drives that is affected by this
>>issue, including those not installed in Apple iMacs. Last time Seagate
>>had a big problem it turned out we had recently purchased 16 of the
>>affected drives and even with the recommended firmware patch they failed
>>at a much higher rate then any other hard drives we had including the 320
>>GB Seagate hard drives that shipped with 34 Mac Pros we used for a
>>cluster.
>>
>>Since we can't take advantage of this program, that is returning our
>>iMacs and/or affected drives, does anyone know which SMART parameters to
>>watch for this issue (understanding that a Google study determined that
>>less than 50% of hard drive failures could be predicted using SMART
>>parameters).
>>
>>Michael
>>
>>ps. I know someone will point to a DoD authorized provider; however, our
>>security has said we can't use those, mostly because they don't have
>>written DoD documentation and procedures in hand that says we can.
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