[mythtv-users] Seagate 1.5TB for 109.99

[John Drescher]

> I will second that - I took a chance (after reading about the
> problems) and bought one of these disks for my master backend.  I
> installed it back in December and has not given me any issues as of
> yet.  It even has the "bad" firmware SD17 (or whatever it is).  But I
> am not using RAID - just LVM - and it's only holding recordings, not
> the DB or system partition.  So far I'm happy - YMMV of course.
>
> I suspect that the majority of the drives do actually work, but the
> people who are happy with them are not vocal about it (for obvious
> reasons).  I am even considering taking advantage of this deal and
> picking up another one - thanks for the link!
>
For the medical research system that I am using this drive since
November I did not mess with the firmware either. Its a windows XP SP3
box and the drive is not used in a raid however.

John