Laz

the statistical normal I was refering to is for hdd failures NOT resulting from or attributable this "timebomb bug" or whatever it is. There are no perfect hard drives; just poor, good, better and best- but even the best will have some failure rate. Production 10cent screws will have in a batch one or two that do not conform to specs- quality control is there to try to make that an increasingly remote possiblity- but the possibility remains- Anyone care to recommend a never-fail hdd ?

I don't buy your theory; they lose far far much more knowingly shipping a defective product.

I'm in Brampton, near Toronto Have you any thoughts on my questions I posted ? I checked out the seagate forum it wasn't quite so closed to the 7200.11 problem as reading here seemed to portray. Maybe the censors are busy... as long as no hardware is damaged I think we have hope of recovering the hdd. what is curious is there have been mentions of failures as early as august- but those could be statistically normal and not related to the same rash of failures we have discovered here. my 2 cents.

Mine went down last night- ta-daaa !!!! (jan1108) 9QM0Z5yq:ST3500320AS:9BX154-303:SD15:08315 (??/???/????):KRATSG:spring 088:11jan08:canada I remain hopeful that a soft solution will be developed- so I would like to extend a word of patience to those who may despair that all has been lost. considering the rapidily mounting cost of systematic hdd failure it is in everyones best interest esp seagate. If there is worry this forum will be shut down I might suggest starting a seagate hdd 7200 failure forum on google groups- I have to ask regarding a pcb swap fix- am I correct in understanding it fails because the pcb has the hdd sns already encoded ? i have one duplicate drive still in the antistatic packaging and would consider trying this option if I know that trying would not destroy the data I take it this bsy stuff occurs during shutdown of the pc; is it possible to clear by shorting some of the data pins on the sata interface while unpowered ? Is it possible it will clear itself by leaving it unpowered for a few days ? Sorry, I don't have any real technical knowledge, I am just trying to throw out some ideas here. Thank you.