UPDATE: Seagate says it has isolated a "potential firmware issue" that is behind this recent spate of failures. The company has also announced that it will provide a free firmware upgrade for those ...

Seagate yesterday released a fix to a bug in its current generation of drives that caused them to become undetectable by a computer. Users have found, however, that the fix breaks 500GB drives — the ...

Hard drives crash from time to time, that’s a fact, but it seems that one particular type of Seagate drive is failing en masse, according to online accounts from ...