[geeks] Seagate 1.5 TB

[Lionel Peterson]

On Apr 1, 2009, at 9:47 AM, James Braid <jamesb at loreland.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 14:43, William Barnett-Lewis <wlewisiii at gmail.com 
> > wrote:
>> I have recently read that the new firmware fixes the issues with this
>> drive. Is that the case or are we still in Deathstar land with these
>> drives? I know of some folks looking at using them as primary drives
>> for photo storage.
>
> I have a load of them in use in different types of RAID systems (all
> running the CC1H firmware - which they shipped with), they all work
> perfectly for me. Had a couple of failures, but no more so than any
> other type of drive we use.

I have a box with both firmware revs, CC1H and SD17, and my research  
shows that the updated firmware fixes the problem. I just built my  
box, but I haven't updated mine (yet). The SD17 firmware drives appear  
to have come from TigerSirect/CompUSA, the retail drives had CC1H, I  
think...

Lionel