Abnormal oxidization on Seagate PCB

Dear All Seagate users,

Recently we experience extremely high failure rate in Seagate harddisk, they include the post 2006 Seagate SCSI and SAS harddisk in HP and Dell server.

Since HP, Dell or Seagate can not provide us firmed answer of the abnomral failure rate, we are going to share the protenial problem in Lead Free PCB to all Seagate harddisk users. It is because existing RAID system is not able to protect your valueable data if multiple harddisk are failed at the same time. In case you have new Seagate harddisk in your system, please spend couple minute to inspect them before they turn down your RAID system and DATA!

In the following photos, you will see the abnormal OXIDIZATION PROBLEM on PCB; Please note these harddisk are in production NO LONGER THAN 2 months, and bad harddisk also found in HP XP24000!

Seagate ST3146855LC
http://picasaweb.google.com/takeme [...] 146GbSCSI#

Seagate ST9146802SS
http://picasaweb.google.com/takeme [...] P146GbSAS#

Seagate ST3300655FC
http://picasaweb.google.com/takeme [...] HPXP24000#

Seagate ST9146802SS
http://picasaweb.google.com/takeme [...] PSAS146Gb#

Seagate ST3146707LC
http://picasaweb.google.com/takeme [...] 146GbSCSI#




In case you want more info about this issue, please drop me line at takemehome2nite@gmail.com.

Good luck to all Seagate users!