Manufacture Date on Seagate Drives

We've been having a fair amount of Seagate drive failures in our Sun systems lately. We are trying to find out a way to get a manufacture date so that we can proactivly replace our drives that have over 5 years of service. Is there a way given a drive's serial number and model number that I can get a manufacture date?
Thanks

<table border="0" align="center" width="90%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td class="SmallText"><b>Bill wrote on Sat, 05 November 2005 18:41</b></td></tr><tr><td class="quote">
I would not `trust` any info on a disk spud bracket (maybe not even the FRU number). The bracket could be attached to <i>anything</i>.
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Couldn't agree more Bill, I've even picked up systems that have had generic Seagate disks installed in a spud ( Ultra 60 trade ins with 146GB for example!! ).
The link to the handbook was used to try and make sense of the serial number on the Sun drives. Logic suggests that dating numbers of OEM components are consistent from OEM peripherals right down to drives. Wouldn't it be a nightmare to implement a different serial number scheme for each OEM component? But then again not everthing in the world of IT is logical!!

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