so choosing a well-known and trustworthy brand may reduce the risk of firmware issues. Seagate, WD, and Toshiba may be trusted companies. This post discusses free hard drive repair tools with step ...

Hard drive firmware is about the last place you want to find a bug. But that turned out to be the problem with [BBfoto’s] Seagate HDD which he was using in a RAID array. It stopped working ...