[matclayton]

That serial number sends shivers down my spine. I also used to work on this system, and still do! At one point seagate admitted that the firmware was faulty. It would periodically stop responding under load, and cause the raid controller to think the drive had failed, causing it to remove it from the array.

I’ve never seen this posted publicly by them, but I’m fairly sure a revised firmware was offered. We deemed it too risky to upgrade the drives one at a time, so built a new cluster on Western Digital drives.