Seagate ST31500341AS 1.5TB

RydForLyf wrote:
Just a quick note. Newegg has a $10 rebate on the 341AS drives, making them $129.99 to your door with their free shipping.

They were $120 shipped just a few days ago.... wait for them to go on sale again... I think I'm waiting for $100 shipped. I need to buy 3 more...

I received 2 drives yesterday and 2 drives today. Each pair had different firmware (bummer). After contacting Seagate, here is what firmware I have and what firmware I will be upgrading to;

FW: SD17 –going to- SD1A
FW: CC1G –going to- CC1H

1st batch came from newegg TN warehouse
2nd batch came from newegg CA warehouse

Marde wrote:
I received 2 drives yesterday and 2 drives today. Each pair had different firmware (bummer). After contacting Seagate, here is what firmware I have and what firmware I will be upgrading to; FW: SD17 –going to- SD1A FW: CC1G –going to- CC1H 1st batch came from newegg TN warehouse 2nd batch came from newegg CA warehouse

How did you get your updated firmware? I contacted Seagate a week ago for it and still haven't heard back!!!

Can you share the CC1H firmware? My drives have CC1G on them.

chirpa wrote:
Can you share the CC1H firmware? My drives have CC1G on them.

Yes please, share

How I got the firmware? I called Seagate and they semt me an email with a CODE. Went to a seagate webpage, entered code, then did download. I did it 2 days in a row, because the second set of drives had different fw. I now have both sets of new fw here on my PC. Sure, I can share the fw... I need to go setup an acct with a file sharing service, so I can upload it, anyone have a recommended site?

I have not flashed mine yet, will do that tomorrow, when my 5th drive arrives. You guys need to know the process is kinda like >> Burn files to a CD/DVD >> Power down your PC >> Disconnect all hard-drives (HDDs) from your desktop except the HDD to be flashed >> Boot up PC from the boot disc CD/DVD >> Hope your system detects the HDD >> Flash HDD.

If they aren't too large of archives, you can try uploading them here: http://stashbox.org/

Here you go guys. The files are at Wikisend, a free service where the files should be available for the next 7 days only. After you download, check to see that your zip file is the same size as what I have here on my win-xp box : select file -> right click -> properties
CC1H zip file size 2,911,767 bytes : size on disk 2,912,256 bytes
SD1A zip file size 2,904,563 bytes : size on disk 2,908,160 bytes


wikisend.com: ST31500341AS_CC1H.zip
stashbox.org: ST31500341AS_CC1H.zip


wikisend.com: ST31500341AS_SD1A.zip
stashbox.org: ST31500341AS_SD1A.zip

Does anyone know if these can be flashed from a USB enclosure? I don't have a desktop PC any longer, just the NAS.

xsnrg wrote:
Does anyone know if these can be flashed from a USB enclosure? I don't have a desktop PC any longer, just the NAS.

Won't work, needs to be directly connected to a SATA port.