You might want to think again before flashing your Seagate hard 
drive with whatever firmware the company provides as a 'fix' to 
pending firmware issues with some of its Barracuda 7200.11 series 
hard drives. The latest firmware by the company, version SD1A 
turned many a hard drive unfortunate enough to be flashed with 
it, to paperweights. After flashing the drives with the new 
firmware, users reported receiving disk failure messages, and 
systems not being able to access - let alone boot from - the 
drives. Users claimed to have lost data and backups stored on the 
hard drive, since the drive is rendered inaccessible from any 
machine. 
Following these reports, the company removed the firmware update 
pending validation. It is not known at this point as to how the 
company plans to address its disgruntled customers, whether it 
creates a window for hard drives failed as a result of upgrading 
to this firmware to be replaced under the company warranty or 
free of charge. The SD1A firmware update was released by the 
company to address stability issues certain models of the 
Barracuda 7200.11 series hard drives were diagnosed with. 


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