seatools for windows

dade658 · Sep 20, 2014

I have a Samsung SSD 840 Pro 256 Gb for the Operating System, And 4 Seagate Barracuda 3 Tb Hdd For Storage. When I open Sea Tools For Windows it says searching for compatible drives but it hangs up.
It does not find the drives and I have to force shutdown and reboot to get the system back on. Other than that the System works Fine
I just have a little trouble with G drive when I go to folders and click on G Drive it takes about 10 seconds to load, and I thought I would CK the Drive for Trouble.
My system is a homebuild ASUS Sabertooth 990 Fx R2.0 32 Gb Dominator DDR3 Ram, AMD FX 8350 CPU. Corsair Liquid cooling. Running win 7 Pro.
X 2 Nivida Gtx 680 video Cards Nivida 850 Watt Power Supply

alyoshka · Sep 20, 2014

Firstly.... I had the same problems some time back, only difference was the drives weren't 3TB but The Then Latest 1.5TB drives.
What all did I try to get it right:
Disable the drives from saving power by changing the systems properties.
Tried connecting them through external USB Enclosures.
Tried changing them from IDE to AHCI.
Etc Etc....
I had already loaded the drives up with Data and it took them about 6 months of running and then they failed , one after the other....
Data Lost..... sadly.... but it was crap either way....
The replacements came and the same thing followed.... after 6 months again.... they failed one by one....
The conclusion that was drawn after a lot of searching around and reading reports.... was that the Firmware , I think 0.1C at that time was bad, even my replacements had the same PCB and firmware on it.....
SO when these drives failed and they went in for a replacement again, I made it a point to write to Seagate and the agencies in the middle, that I will not accept the same firmware HDDs again, and so, they sent me replacement with a different version ....
They've been going strong till date....
I'd suggest you backup all your data first and then fool around with the drives....
That 10Second lag when you click on the drive is because of the platters spinning up, and believe me, you can hear them start off from no rotation to the 7200 RPM....
This is the first sign..... either you wait for them to get corrupt and stop functioning or you write to Seagate and tell them this is your problem, they will be sure to replace the drives.

dade658 · Sep 20, 2014

alyoshka :

Firstly.... I had the same problems some time back, only difference was the drives weren't 3TB but The Then Latest 1.5TB drives.
What all did I try to get it right:
Disable the drives from saving power by changing the systems properties.
Tried connecting them through external USB Enclosures.
Tried changing them from IDE to AHCI.
Etc Etc....
I had already loaded the drives up with Data and it took them about 6 months of running and then they failed , one after the other....
Data Lost..... sadly.... but it was crap either way....
The replacements came and the same thing followed.... after 6 months again.... they failed one by one....
The conclusion that was drawn after a lot of searching around and reading reports.... was that the Firmware , I think 0.1C at that time was bad, even my replacements had the same PCB and firmware on it.....
SO when these drives failed and they went in for a replacement again, I made it a point to write to Seagate and the agencies in the middle, that I will not accept the same firmware HDDs again, and so, they sent me replacement with a different version ....
They've been going strong till date....
I'd suggest you backup all your data first and then fool around with the drives....
That 10Second lag when you click on the drive is because of the platters spinning up, and believe me, you can hear them start off from no rotation to the 7200 RPM....
This is the first sign..... either you wait for them to get corrupt and stop functioning or you write to Seagate and tell them this is your problem, they will be sure to replace the drives.

Ok but I was still wondering why I cant get sea tools to work is it because I am running a SSD for the operating system

alyoshka · Sep 22, 2014

nope. Nothing to do with the SSD, seatools works only for the seagate drives....

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