Seagate ST31500341AS 1.5TB

fearless_fool wrote:

[short form: how do you field upgrade the firmware in a hard drive?] Since multiple vendors are now offering the ST31500341AS for $150 (including CompUSA), it seems a good time to make the switch. Reading the posts carefully, it appears that populating a ReadyNAS NV with rev SD17 drives will work just fine for just about everything but streaming video -- and even there, there's a workaround. The newbish questions: assuming Seagate comes out with a new firmware rev that resolves the write cache / streaming issue, how does a mere mortal upgrade the firmware in the drives?

You'll have to put it in a PC and then it can be flashed from dos with a command line utility. I've done it before...