Failing Seagate Hard drives

[gerlbvitz]

Hello,Micro center has a Barracuda 1TB 7,200RPM SATA drive on sale. how can I find out if it is in the bad list.

 

[gtvr]

This is from 18 months ago. Google is your friend, you should try it sometime

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/18/barracuda_firmware_upgrade_and_recovery/

http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207931

sounds like a firmware issue, I doubt there are any drives left in the supply chain with firmware that is over 18 months old