Seagate sd1a firmware update

As Seagate does not warrant the data on your drive, in addition to regular back-ups, your data should be backed up, if possible, before upgrading the drive firmware. Follow these steps to determine if a firmware update is available for your drive:. Seagate Partner Program Portal Provides access to product training, sales and marketing resources, deal registration, and more to our VARs, Integrators, Resellers and other channel partners.

Seagate Supplier Portal Provides Suppliers with self-service tools targeted to the needs of their business. Lyve Management Portal Register, access, and manage Lyve Mobile services, subscriptions and projects. Consumer Portal View registered products, register new products, and find product specific support. My Dashboard View your dashboard. Logout Logout of your account. Seagate currently has firmware updates for certain drive families.

Check here to see if an update is available. Good luck with the drives. They were actually good for quite a while, after the firmware update nonsense. Came your blog while searching SD1A.

Crystaldiskinfo on bootcamp-win7 reports: STAS, hours!!!! So I think Lacie did this in luckily for me, and i have no creepy flashwork to do. Is it better than factory SD36? May be some —force keys exists? Fixed it myself! Still a problem in ! One morning recently, it disappeared after being restarted. So he left the drive with me. Knowing that if I used the drive it would eventually brick again, I decided to update the firmware to SD1A.

Thanks for the tip! After a Google search of the model, turns out there was tens of thousands with the same issue, Being I removed the drive from a Free Agent enclosure to have a performance drive has a 32MB cache, running at rpm , the warranty was void. That got me interested in attempting a revive. Still, even after the tool arrived, this was very low on my priorities. Initially, went through the repair using the HyperTerminal and after three attempts, the program would always fail at a certain point.

The drive appeared, was prompted to initialize it, yet I had another idea, since we lost some photos. I did consider using as intended when purchased as a backup drive, yet only for a fleeting second. For now, am hapy that the drive works, yet at the same time, wished that Seagate has developed the same tool I used to distribute to anyone who needed it. After all, they have an engineering team making big bucks. Being they work on drives as a career, they most likely had the same, or a component that would had done the same job.

Makes me wonder. The Windows 8 COA had long been transferred to another build. Once I was sure that anything needed was of the drive, plus imaged for good measure, wiped it with DBAN, two runs of autonuke, which equals close to an NSA wipe. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Search for: Search. Register, access, and manage Lyve Mobile services, subscriptions and projects.

View registered products, register new products, and find product specific support. Twitter Facebook Google Plus Linked in. See also Document ID: if your model is not listed below. You can verify the proper firmware revision for your drive model and serial number using the Drive Detect software.

Procedure for. As Seagate does not warrant the data on your drive, in addition to regular back-ups, your data should be backed up, if possible, before upgrading the drive firmware. Additional information on backing up the contents of your drive can be found at our Knowledge Base.