Seagate ST31500341AS 1.5TB

no8080 wrote:

Finally got a reply from Seatgate, after chasing them up several times and ringing them. There official response is Hello Neil, Seagate only supports these drives in a desktop environment. The nas box you have placed the drive in would have to be tested and supported by the company who made the box. The firmware update addresses some cache clearing issues in a linux/Mac OS with this model of drive. I would advise contacting support for your nas box, to establish if this drive can even work with their box. If it can't hopefully they will have suggestions on how to fix the issue you are seeing. If they have not approved this drive with their box, it would be strongly recommended to go with a hard drive they have tested and confirmed will work. Regards, Bryce Thats a f***ing disgrace. I am sending the drives back first thing Monday. Thats the last time I buy Seagate products. Neil

The information that was given to you was slightly different than the information that was given to me when I called this past Tuesday (1/6/09). I was told that the problem with the earlier firmware revisions related to the drive going into a diagnostics/testing mode when transferring large files.

FWIW, things are running smoothly for me so far with a combination of CC1J and CC1H drives. The one thing I did notice is that streaming worked much better when I connected to the ReadyNAS via AFP rather that via CIFS. With CIFS, I had some definite hiccuping when I tried streaming video over a WiFi connection. With AFP, the video streams quite nicely.