Quote Originally Posted by Joey
Hello Open-E Users,

I have a SuperMicro system with 12 Seagate Drives, we have few incidents that drives stop responding . We believe its drive issues, but I want to confirm it with you before contacting Seagate as their support is pain in the #$%^.

The drives I am using are Seagate Barracuda ES.2 SATA.
Joey,

there is a major issue with quite a number of Seagate disk lines (firmware bug that will render the disk unresponsive upon reboot) - once hit by that bug the drive needs to be replaced or recovered. Up to now information has been sparse, Seagate has tried to provide fixed firmware releases with varying success.

Google will give you quite a number of hits on this issue. ES.2 is among the listed drive families, I have no verifyable information on the affected fw releases.

Regards,
Jens