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hdd_sand

Post subject: Seagate Date code

Posted: June 25th, 2013, 13:55

Joined: January 29th, 2009, 11:23
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Location: SXSW

I have a seagte drive with a date coe of "1006-1" it's a re-cerfified the date onlyy with "1006" it's 2009-06-30 do I need to worry about the "-1" for a heads xplant?

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Tawfeek

Post subject: Re: Seagate Date code

Posted: June 25th, 2013, 14:06

Joined: October 30th, 2007, 17:58
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Location: Egypt

date is not important to change heads

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mr_spokk

Post subject: Re: Seagate Date code

Posted: June 25th, 2013, 14:43

Joined: May 21st, 2007, 16:10
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tawfeek_mokhtar wrote:

date is not important to change heads

No but re-certified are not so good for parts...

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hdd_sand

Post subject: Re: Seagate Date code

Posted: June 25th, 2013, 15:21

Joined: January 29th, 2009, 11:23
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Thank you tawfeek_mokhtar and mr_spokk, I know they are no so good but it's the only part I was able to find... and they are not asking lost of money for the donor, so I will give it a try

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fzabkar

Post subject: Re: Seagate Date code

Posted: June 25th, 2013, 15:53

Joined: September 8th, 2009, 18:21
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Location: Australia

You need to match the first three characters of the serial number. The first character reflects the manufacturing location, so I suspect that it may not be as important as the other two.

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hdd_sand

Post subject: Re: Seagate Date code

Posted: June 25th, 2013, 18:13

Joined: January 29th, 2009, 11:23
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Location: SXSW

thank for all the replays, I got the drive xplanted, cloned and recovered....

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mr_spokk

Post subject: Re: Seagate Date code

Posted: June 26th, 2013, 1:44

Joined: May 21st, 2007, 16:10
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Nice to hear

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