August 27, 201015 yr Weaksauce. I'm regretting buying this drive now. Seagate should really be ashamed about those drives....
August 27, 201015 yr Did you do a full power cycle, and not just a reboot after flashing? That might be needed.
August 27, 201015 yr Did you do a full power cycle, and not just a reboot after flashing? That might be needed. No I didn't. I suppose I can try that later. My array is currently building parity on this drive, but that should be done in a few hours. I just hate having to futz with drives. It seems Samsung is the only company currently making good quality 2 TB green drives that don't need some kind of extra work (jumpers, firmware updates, etc).
August 27, 201015 yr Not entirely the case. lol For one, SMART was not enabled on the last batch of Sammy 2TB I and others here bought. and also.. the WD20EADS have been flawless for me so far. Fast and cool. No bullshit jumper settings and SMART enabled and reporting as it should. If the Sammys are now SMART enabled and hassle free.. I will go back to them. It seems Samsung is the only company currently making good quality 2 TB green drives that don't need some kind of extra work (jumpers, firmware updates, etc).
August 29, 201015 yr Just tried running the update on my drive.........disconnected the other drives, connected the new one. Turned on computer and smoke from the harddrive. tried to run the firmware update and the cd was unable to detect any drive. was not detected by BIOS either.
August 29, 201015 yr Smoke is usually a bad thing.. sorry.. not trying to make light of the situation.. but yea.. LAMO.. "smoke = bad"
August 29, 201015 yr http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_smoke Yea.. power supply was the first thing that came to mind when I read the post... maybe just a dud.. maybe another cause.
August 29, 201015 yr I tried different sata cables, different sata ports on my motherboard, different sata power cables and the hard drive was not detected by my BIOS. I'm getting the RMA from newegg. I'll try another drive, happens again and I'll ask for a refund.
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