Warning to Seagate 7200.11 hard drive owners

[geebox07]

@ Eugenet: Great news; sigh of releif for you 

@ Chlow6: That's odd; I'm based in Western Europe and was able to get the whole thing done free (including pickup & return by courrier).  I know for a fact that the actual retrievel was done in their labs in the Nederlands as I was able to track its progress every day.  Can't see a reason why you'd be told to send it to US?  What did their serial checker utility tell you to do?

[chlow6]

@ Eugenet: Great news; sigh of releif for you 

@ Chlow6: That's odd; I'm based in Western Europe and was able to get the whole thing done free (including pickup & return by courrier).  I know for a fact that the actual retrievel was done in their labs in the Nederlands as I was able to track its progress every day.  Can't see a reason why you'd be told to send it to US?  What did their serial checker utility tell you to do?

My mistake. I mean it that for Malaysians to retrieve their data, you need to pay for shipment to either Seagate US or Europe for their free data retrieval. For me, i found out that there are only a few ways for you to solve this , that is to either RMA it for free, Send it for data retrieval service in US/ Europe (Self Pay for shipment but retrieval is free) or buy some DIY stuff and repair yourself (Read from a thread somewhere).

[geebox07]

Seems a bit unfair that they aren't willing to pay for shipping from Malaysia 

Did you lose much data?  For me; it was the photos that were the biggest blow as movies, apps & music can all be downloaded again (albeit with a huge inconvenience overhead!).  Stupid, I know, but I'd got photos from the past five or six years on only on my secondary HD (mostly my GF's photos - she's a keen amateur photographer and would have been gutted to lose the lot). 

I've ordered two new 500GB WD Caviar Black drives which I'm going to set up in RAID 0 array, then use existing 500GB and 250GB as manual redundancy (manually back up the important files onto them).  I was hoping to set up a RAID 10 array but can't really afford a 3rd new HD to make up the 4 HD's I'd need for that  :'(

[chlow6]

Seems a bit unfair that they aren't willing to pay for shipping from Malaysia 

Did you lose much data?  For me; it was the photos that were the biggest blow as movies, apps & music can all be downloaded again (albeit with a huge inconvenience overhead!).  Stupid, I know, but I'd got photos from the past five or six years on only on my secondary HD (mostly my GF's photos - she's a keen amateur photographer and would have been gutted to lose the lot). 

I've ordered two new 500GB WD Caviar Black drives which I'm going to set up in RAID 0 array, then use existing 500GB and 250GB as manual redundancy (manually back up the important files onto them).  I was hoping to set up a RAID 10 array but can't really afford a 3rd new HD to make up the 4 HD's I'd need for that  :'(

Few hundred GB from a 500gb drive but most of them are just games, anime & music. Too bad that you lose your pictures, i would have been hit hard if i was in the same place. Raid array is quite good for data redundancy but very expensive.

[dexbot.fallout3]

I've ordered two new 500GB WD Caviar Black drives which I'm going to set up in RAID 0 array, then use existing 500GB and 250GB as manual redundancy (manually back up the important files onto them).  I was hoping to set up a RAID 10 array but can't really afford a 3rd new HD to make up the 4 HD's I'd need for that  :'(

Few hundred GB from a 500gb drive but most of them are just games, anime & music. Too bad that you lose your pictures, i would have been hit hard if i was in the same place. Raid array is quite good for data redundancy but very expensive.

Not RAID0, which is what geebox07 is using.

[geebox07]

I didn't lose anything in the end; got the drive back from Seagate all working and all data intact - Yippee!

dexbot.fallout3 is right; a RAID 0 config alone doesn't offer any redundancy, just speed increase.  That's why I'll manually backup to my old HDD's (when my two new ones arrive - looking at watch and tapping foot impatiently!)

[chlow6]

I didn't lose anything in the end; got the drive back from Seagate all working and all data intact - Yippee!

dexbot.fallout3 is right; a RAID 0 config alone doesn't offer any redundancy, just speed increase.  That's why I'll manually backup to my old HDD's (when my two new ones arrive - looking at watch and tapping foot impatiently!)

I check it out after dexbot.fallout3's comment. Rather expensive to get RAID 10 like u say.

[OrenZeN]

Взять займ очень просто от 1.000 до 3.000.000 рублей
Заполните форму и мы подберем микрозаём
от банков и компаний, готовых выдать Вам деньги
Возраст: От 18 до 70 лет https://intercreditl.ru/offers/potrebitelskij-kredit/
 
Подбор займа онлайн, кредитов, кредитных карт
Размер: от 1.000 до 4.000.000 руб
Срок: От 7 дней до 5 лет
Время рассмотрения: от 15 минут
Получение денег: В офисах компании, наличными или через платежные системы
Возраст: От 18 до 70 лет https://intercreditl.ru/offers/mikrozajmy/
 
Микрозайм калькулятор Кредиты в день обращения Микрозайм калькулятор  55bd891