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February 8th, 2012, 15:44
I have 2 brand new 1TB 7200.12 hard drive I bought some time ago and I am about to put them in service. Prior to doing so, I decided to do some research (spent about 2 hours on Google and many forums) since the drive have been around for a couple of years, and see what their reliability is like.
Anyway, I understand all drives have issues; the few things that really stand out on this one seems to be people have PCB issues, whether they be a 5v regulator burning out, and other issues similar to 7200.11 of suddenly not being recognized, how much of risk or concern is this? I will be running the drives in RAID 1 primarily for storage, not as boot drives.
Also, some people complain of loud noisy drives that supposedly are fixed with newer firmware. The drives were shipped with CC38 firmware, I have downloaded both CC46 and CC49 firmware, so I have two questions.
1. Should I put them in service or sell them for better drives, since it's not a bad time to sell?
2. If I keep them, which firmware should I run? CC38 or CC46 or CC49
I ask because CC49 is the latest, but I have read different bad reviews on that firmware in terms of slowing the drive down and having all kinds of issues, so I was thinking about CC46 instead.
So I wanted to see read some opinions and or suggestions from the HDDgurus
Anyway, I understand all drives have issues; the few things that really stand out on this one seems to be people have PCB issues, whether they be a 5v regulator burning out, and other issues similar to 7200.11 of suddenly not being recognized, how much of risk or concern is this? I will be running the drives in RAID 1 primarily for storage, not as boot drives.
Also, some people complain of loud noisy drives that supposedly are fixed with newer firmware. The drives were shipped with CC38 firmware, I have downloaded both CC46 and CC49 firmware, so I have two questions.
1. Should I put them in service or sell them for better drives, since it's not a bad time to sell?
2. If I keep them, which firmware should I run? CC38 or CC46 or CC49
I ask because CC49 is the latest, but I have read different bad reviews on that firmware in terms of slowing the drive down and having all kinds of issues, so I was thinking about CC46 instead.
So I wanted to see read some opinions and or suggestions from the HDDgurus
Re: Seagate 7200.12, should I keep it? If so, which firmware
February 12th, 2012, 7:45
hey friend even i have that 1TB 7200.12 seagate HD.Brought it 2 month back..now it got crash 
seagate-1tb-barracuda-7200-not-getting-detect-t22022.html
I think there problem with these 1TB harddisk's
And wat firmware u talking abt..is it necessary to run those firmware ! do it make the HD run better !
seagate-1tb-barracuda-7200-not-getting-detect-t22022.htmlI think there problem with these 1TB harddisk's
And wat firmware u talking abt..is it necessary to run those firmware ! do it make the HD run better !
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