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

[treggi]

It is very annoying that Seagate still insists that there is no "known" issue with the ST2000DL003 drives. If you read the problem reports about this drive in the internet, you could know that there IS a problem with this drives. Of course hdds sometimes fail, but not again and again in this way, that they are not recognized by the bios any more. I had my drive checked by a company that is specialised in data recovery. They told me, it is a firmware problem.

[jeffenwu]

I have the same trouble ,Please help!

[cwong2910]

Same problem mentioned in the following forums. It is happening all over the world dude........

http://forum.hddguru.com/st2000dl003-firmware-fix-t18525.html

Japan

http://translate.google.com.sg/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2F2bangai.net%2Fread%2F31b7d07324730782bbe11cb...

China

http://translate.google.com.sg/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fforum.runsky.com%2Fviewthread.php%3Ftid%3D75...

Korea

http://translate.google.com.sg/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdvdprime.cultureland.co.kr%2Fbbs%2Fview.asp%...

[dexter12]

I got ST2000DL003 today!! Some beeps..Windows 7 takes an eternity to  boot (probably detecting a new unformatted drive).

Device Manager states as ST_M13FQBL ATA device.. what?

Firmware is CC32. What am i supposed to do? So my drive is an RMA returned product on the first day itself?

[cwong2910]

Your issue is similar to this case

http://forums.seagate.com/t5/Barracuda-XT-Barracuda-and/New-Barracuda-Green-2TB-SATA-6Gb-s-makes-cli...

Looks like this ST2000DL003 drive is starting to replicate the problems with the 7200.11

.....and not just the problems, Seagate continues to maintain their state of denial just like the 7200.11 during the initial stage....never mind lets bump this thread up for now.

[cwong2910]

Another one bites the dust

http://translate.google.com.sg/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdetail.zol.com.cn%2F265%2F264496%2Freview_0_...

[mrothoff]

Im just gonna add myself on the last and say i have the exact same problem!

I really hope the aknowledge this issue soon, cause its really a shame that we lost data. 

Looking forward hearing something

[Oliverda]

I really hope that we'll hear a statement about this issue. I'm going to freeze my purchase until then and I'll tell everybody to do the same.

[Oliverda]

Could we collect some data about the problematic drives? Maybe it's a problematic batch which can be determined by this way.

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I've found a picture on the web for demonstration:

[akcl]

Hi, mine just stopped working after about 2 months of occasional use.

It is of the 9VT166-300 version with firmware CC31.

The system is a Sabertooth/i7-950/Win7pro64 with an SSD system disk.

Tried an older drive in the port to check that the mobo is allright and it worked just fine.

I hope Seagate react soon - I also had about 700GB of useful stuff on the disk.