Needless to say that all my Seagate drives (I have two, by the way) were targeted as affected by a firmware problem that could cause data to become inaccessible upon system power up. I got a little scared and thought to update the firmware from Seagate’s website.

I don’t know why, but I didn’t, I said to myself that it can wait a few days to see what others say about the issue as it didn’t seem too widespread to be a really concern. And boy was I right as it seem the guys at Anandtech updated the firmware on two of their drives which become unusable.

Besides the fact that Seagate really screwed things up I learned that it’s not always good to be an early adopter and sometimes is best letting others take the first step. What about you, any troubles with your drives?

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