A fix for broken Seagate drives is itself faulty, Seagate said on Wednesday. The company confirmed that a software update issued recently for an issue affecting some Barracuda disk drives could stop ...

Seagate introduced the new Barracuda 7200.11 drives in July. Users have been complaining about issues with drives freezing or not showing the full capacity in various blogs and shopping forums since ...

Hard disk drives use firmware, which is a combination of hardware and software, to determine how to operate. The firmware is a built-in chip on the device that contains programming code. You can ...

I have an application where the client has specified that he wants a specific disk configuration. The five disks must be:<BR><BR>1 x PATA Disk, Seagate 320GB<BR>2 x SATA Disks, Seagate 320GB<BR>2 x ...

Seagate announced two new plans Monday to give consumers peace of mind when it comes to their hard drives: Seagate Rescue and Seagate Rescue and Replace. Traditionally, data recovery in the event of a ...

Seagate has hit a serious snag with many of its 7200.11 hard drives where the firmware had an issue that could lead to the drives unceremoniously denying access to data on the drive. While the fact ...

Cloud backup firm Backblaze posted HDD failure stats for the first quarter. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Mechanical hard disk ...

External drives are as susceptible to viruses as internal drives. Some malware are designed to infect and spread via USB storage devices. In some cases, formatting, or erasing, all of the files on the ...