Questions tagged [seagate]

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How to monitor Segate HDD health under Linux?

I'd need to monitor the health of several Seagate ST16000NM002G SAS HDDs hosted in a disk server running CentOS 7. As far as I understand, Seagate disks do not expose S.M.A.R.T. attributes due to a precise management decision (see this page), and…
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Does IO performance degrade when a SAS SSD is attached with redundancy?

I have some Seagate Nytro SSDs (model xs800le70004), SuperMicro SAS3 JBODs (2C models with redundancy), LSI 9300 SAS3 Cards, and SAS HD Cables (SFF-8644). When the SSDs are attached with both primary and redundant links, the performance drops to 72%…
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Windows software raid drives deactivated

Not sure what to make of this behaviour, but here goes. I have 3 Seagate 4 T drives in a windows 2012 r2 server in a software raid 5. Recently, I logged onto the server to see that 2 disks (specifically the disks in sata slot 1 and 2) were…
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Can a currupt backup cause a hardrive failure?

I have a script that runs each time Windows 7 starts up that backs up an MS SQL database to a Synology NAS loaded with 12 Seagate ST4000NM002A-2HZ101 hard drives. Everyday at 3am the backed up database is "restored" to a MS SQL database running in a…
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Difference between Seagate Expansion and GoFlex HDD

What are the significant differences between Seagate Expansion Portable 1 TB USB 3.0 (Model STAX1000302) and Seagate Free Agent GoFlex 1TB USB 3.0 (Model STAA1000302) except Data Encryption? I found Expansion models are cheaper. Regards, Arindam
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Need to downgrade Seagate HDD firmware

OK so I knew I was taking a big risk doing this but I decided to upgrade the HDD firmware on drives in my RAID5 array. And of course the controller is now complaining that one of the HDD sizes is invalid and I can't boot. I'm hoping I can just…
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