This year’s beginning saw one of the most leading hard drive manufacturing industries get into a sour public relations affair, after the rumors spread of their new 1.5 TB drives not matching up to the required mark, rather failing to perform at the specified notations. The Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 wasn’t the only one to report errors and performance failures, but other popular models from the Seagate stable, including, DiamondMax 22, Barracuda ES.2 SATA and the SV35 also complained with the same problems. The Seagate’s online support site was bombarded with customer complaints about the above mentioned models, and the basic cause of failures was that their hard drives were freezing up completely during minimal load operations, such as simple data transfers, or even read and writes cycles. Some users specified that the hard drives had been seizing up for “30 Seconds during I/O Transfers of Streaming Video or when reading or writing files at low speed”.