Seagate Barracuda 7200-11 Hard Drive Recovery

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By now most of you have heard about the problems that a firmware upgrade has caused with the seagate Barracuda 7200.11 hard drive line. Both 500 GB and 1 TB hard drives have just stopped working without notice. After the drive up and dies and you re-boot your computer, it goes into a fail safe mode and is not recognized by your BIOS anymore. This article will help you identify if you need hard drive recovery on your Seagate Barracuda 7200.11.

Model numbers of Seagate Barracuda hard drives that have firmware problems (note the bolded 3):

1000 GB
ST31000340AS hard drive recovery

750 GB
ST3750330AS hard drive recovery

500 GB
ST3500320AS hard drive recovery

Challenges Hard Drive Manufacturers Face
Seagate is just the latest victim in the war going on between storage companies. Between lower prices than ever for storage and consumers growing needs for capacity, these hard drive companies are finding it harder than ever to put out a stable product for a reasonable price.

These emerging technologies are still happening now with the advent of high capacity solid state storage, digital data storage without moving parts is the future of backup, the question is: when will the price per MB of flash media and solid state storage change to price per GB?  As far as traditional storage with moving parts i.e. hard disk drives, there has been an explosion of emerging technologies there as well. The release of perpendicular recording was just the first step in the process that has led us to affordable high capacity drives like Seagate’s Barracuda 7200.11.