Seagate ST31500341AS 1.5TB

rstone wrote:
Well for people like me who didn't jump the gun and purchase the 1.5TB drives, that really isnt a concern, as long as there are 1.5TB drives that do not have a write cache problem. While that **** for those who did, netgear shouldn't wait for those early adopters to get their firmware before testing the new SD37 drives.

According to my contact at Seagate the SD37 firmware is the same as the SD17 firmware. When a new firmware is available we will for sure check it out.

Han Solo wrote:
According to my contact at Seagate the SD37 firmware is the same as the SD17 firmware. When a new firmware is available we will for sure check it out.

ROFLMAO, your kidding...
SD37 is the same as SD17, I guess they did added the SD37 to cause some extra confusion....
Weird people those seagaters...

Yup, that what I was saying to myself. I sent another email to my other contacts at Seagate just to be sure this was the case.

To me it looks like we just has to leave the jedis alone until we hear something from Seagate about the issue. As long as Seagate don't take the problem seriously not even mighty jedis can do something about it.

Seagate has at least made a statement about it now - I just hope it will come a nice firmware patch or a recall on the drives.

.staffan

I just received 5 of these drives at work to put in one of these: http://www.firmtek.com/seritek/seritek-5pm/

Model : ST31500341AS
Revision : SD17

I will post up if I have problems with them.

Staffan wrote:
To me it looks like we just has to leave the jedis alone until we hear something from Seagate about the issue. As long as Seagate don't take the problem seriously not even mighty jedis can do something about it. Seagate has at least made a statement about it now - I just hope it will come a nice firmware patch or a recall on the drives. .staffan

Yeah those jedis are so dellicate... :roll:
The jedis have the force, so they can handle a few questions...
If not they don't deserve the jedi title LOL....

Anyway your right about Seagate hope they fix it soon,
so I can reorder the drives.

I have just received 4xSeagate 1.5T drives and I have just read this forum regarding the seagate's mysterious freezing bug.

Before returning them back, how can I check that the discs are truly fualty ?
Does this bug occures no matter what ? If so how ?

How can one check/ verify the issue before returning the back ?
I tried for example to view a qute big movie over the network and I didn't see any freezing effect

Anyone ?

Wow. :? :cry:

I just spent a week replacing the old Seagate 750gb drives in my ReadyNAS NV+ with the new Seagate 1.5TB drives, one by one; then I discovered that the reason my volume wasn't expanding was that RAIDiator was not updating (via the built in Update) to the latest version but was stuck at 4.01, so I installed 4.1.4 manually; watched the long "Expanding FS Check", which did complete, but now it's been three hours and the LCD displays:
Expanding...
Expansion: 0.1%

At this rate It will be, um... 3000 HOURS before I have a functional NAS again!

I just stumbled upon this thread! I guess my only option is to keep checking back in hopes that there will be a fix. I'm despondent.

no it wont take that long. at most it will take 2 days or so (most likely less). you will see a big jump from 0.1% to a high percentage at one point.

It does appear that I jumped the gun on my despondency. It took what seems like forever to get to 1.0%, but in just the last ~30 minutes it has reached the amazingly advanced state of!
ta da!

1.2%

However, since I've been writing this, and being distracted by the woot-off in progress, it has crept to 1.3% in ~20+ minutes. Two days doesn't sound out of the realm of possibility though.

I'm still concerned about the 30-60 second stalls in serving music and video, since that is a HUGE part of what this machine is supposed to do, but I know everyone who can is working on resolving that problem, and I guess we can turn off write caching to get our streaming working, if I read the previous posts correctly.

Thanks y'all!

PS: I just saw 1.4% tick over! I'm keeping my fingers crossed. :-)