Barracuda XT, Barracuda, Barracuda Green, DiamondMax and other desktop SATA and IDE drives

[Agent24]

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Borrisimo wrote:

 I've been looking at review for Seagate/Hitatchi and WD 2TB Drives and they all have the same problem, useless power saving features causing chirping sounds

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I know the WD Greens have the tendency to park the heads like crazy but can you show me where they said the same thing about Hitachi?

[Borrisimo]

Was reading a few review on ebuyer where I usually buy the HDD's and several people mention the Hitatchi's had the clicking sound, and looking at the specs on all 3 manufacturers drives they all boast an "idle power saving" feature which they seem to think is a good thing.

Wish I had stocked up on my Samsung Spinpoint 2TB's from a couple years ago, those were perfect but Samsung don't do 7200 drives anymore it seems.

[Filrond]

I have a St1000DM003-9yn162 with firmware CC4D... problems with chirping  sound and high load cycle count issue. If I past time without start computer, hours or days, in first power on start Hd in Ahci mode, fail to boot Windows 7 system, Then I power off computer, wait 5 seconds, press again start and then Windows 7 init without problems... This problem Coold Boot is cause by Apm problems?.

Time ago, I buyed two 500 Gbs and two 1Tb Seagate 7200.11..... infamous Hd Seagate Serie. Need recover 3 with update firmware... Computers no detect hard disk, very bad performance,  re-live again with firmware updates and better performance, but nothing impresive......

Now this ST1000DM003 with this chirping problem sound and high load cycle counts... problems Apm....  And my firmware is CC4D, and no possible update to CC4H....... , no luck with last buyed Seagate Hard Disk.

I am really angry with patetic quality last Seagate Hard Disks. And no service upgrade for fix problems for ST1000DM003 users with firmware CC4D.... is a bad joke.

Greetings

Sorry for my poor English.

[portomomo]

@ Borissimo

Unfortunately Seagate bought Samsung HDD division a couple of years ago, so buying new Samsungs or Seagates is

almost the same (in another section of this forum people are discussing the rebranding of Samsung and Seagate drives).

The choice is getting narrower for us as customers, and that's not good.

[Filrond]

Provisional solution for this problem:

Go to HddScan page is a freeware tool:

http://hddscan.com/

Download HddScan 3.3 utility

Run it, check information, smart but the most important select "Build Command Line"

In next screen you disable Advanced Power Management and create .bat file  for use on init or better for use with Windows Task Manager

Greetings

[gijski]

I'm having difficulty updating the firmware.

This is my case:

- connected the HD via external eSata dock to my Dell Latitude 6400

- booting from CD for FW update

- ST3000DM001 is recognised and I confirm to update it

- first the 1 minute countdown passes, then a 5 minute countdown ("completing firmware download") counts down to 0:00

- then I get a failed message saying "timeout firmware download"

Tried it a couple of times, but always a kind of timeout seems to happen when downloading.

Any thoughts?

[Dragonix]

I updated my ST2000DM001 to CC4H and the chirping sound is now gone. However the drive is still beeping from time to time when I'm running some program off it or accessing data. It's much lauder then any component in my rig.

Are you going to do something about beeping in the next firmware update or am I stuck with a beeping HDD?

[sausuke]

I just got my new 2 TB ST2000DM001 but with CC4B firmware.. succesfuly upgrade it to CC4H firmware and there's no chirping sound

[tbSeagateU]

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Filrond wrote:

Provisional solution for this problem:

Go to HddScan page is a freeware tool:

http://hddscan.com/

Download HddScan 3.3 utility

Run it, check information, smart but the most important select "Build Command Line"

In next screen you disable Advanced Power Management and create .bat file  for use on init or better for use with Windows Task Manager

Greetings

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THANK YOU FOR A GREAT WORKAROUND!!  

I can vouch for this solution and it has worked for me.  I have the 3TB ST3000DM001 drive with the CC9C firmware and running the hddscan 3.3 program (in XP compatibility mode) to create a command line batch file to disable APM worked and solved the annoying chirp every few minutes.

I've also used the free HD Tune program to verify that the load cycle is not longer changing every few minutes.

Happy camper again.    I've got 13689 load cycles and 3710 power on hours but it seems that recently that the chirping has gotten more frequent and annoying than when it was newer and less frequent.   Anyway, hope this additional feedback helps.  

[shankly1985]

 have ST2000DM001-9YN164 witch has firmware CC9D but on the list of Previous versions of firmware with these models and part numbers are CC46, CC47, CC49, CC4C, or CC4G. My CC9D isn't listed??

So when I try and update from Boot disk after switch from Raid to IDE mode I get Modle Matched but Firmware failed to download??

Need this updated the Chirping Sound is horrible.