[ale] Seagate 500GB Sata-CRASH!-UPDATE

[Geoffrey]

oliver wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 8:06 AM, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
>> I find it terribly hard to believe that any hard drive manufacturer is
>> going to spend the time to recover your data and send it back to you.  I
>> just don't believe they're going to spend that time.
> 
> If the drive was one of the dodgy Barracuda drives, Seagate will
> provide free data recovery:
> 
> 
> From: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/18/barracuda_firmware_upgrade_and_recovery/
> :
> 
> The company will provide a free firmware upgrade for those affected by
> the problem, and if you've lost data thanks to this firmware issue, it
> will provide free data recover services as well.

Ah, an exception because of this particular problem.  I was not aware 
that that is what Paul was alluding to.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

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