Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 failures hit the fan
January 16th, 2009
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According to this article, Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 hard drives are failing at an alarming rate globally. Ask any Seagate user and this will be no news to them as this has been a hot topic on the forums for a little while.
This article is concerning though. I’ve had 4x 750GB 7200.11 in a RAID 5 in my NAS since June. When I first bought the parts to build the system, 2 of the drives came DOA. Newegg quickly replaced them and I’ve been fine since. No weird clicking anymore but this makes me think I should consider running RAID 6 dual parity incase two drives fail at once. Having all the build dates nearly the same is worrysome. Even with rock solid linux RAID I won’t be able to sustain two drive failures.