[mythtv-users] Dec 2008 - State of the Art - Hard Drive Recommendations?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 12/17/2008 09:00 AM, Alex Butcher wrote:

>  I've never had a problem, but Seagate's NCQ/cache flush issues with
>  recent models - notably their 1.5TB drives - makes this worth keeping
>  an eye on. Note, however, that Seagate's current issue is a firmware
>  problem, and applies (to a lesser extent) to some of their smaller
>  drives too.
...
>  Until the beginning of January:
>
>  - Seagate for the warranty, and hope they fix their NCQ/cache flush
>  issue


Seagate has a new firmware that fixes the affected drives ( 
http://techreport.com/discussions.x/15863 ).  I've applied it to the two 
affected drives of my three 1.5TB HDD's.

Note that you can only (legitimately) get the firmware update by calling 
Seagate.  You can not get it through the online chat help.  (And, though 
I've heard it can be found online in dark corners of the Internet, do 
you really want to trust the /firmware/ of a harddrive to whatever some 
person uploads.)

Mike