Lupine wrote:
I will give kudos to Seagate support on this one. They're waiving the AR fee and will verify before shipment that the drives match.
So ... you're happy that you had to waste you're time making calls, testing drives, flashing drives, reading the forums, shipping drives to maybe, possibly get what you paid for in the first place? Kind of like a happy hard drive beta tester 
What would make me happy would be the answer to the following question: Does the SD1A firmware solve the problem with ST31000340AS, ST3750330AS and ST3500320AS drives or not?
Seagate can't seem to come up with a solid answer to that question. I'm assuming if that question can't be answered then Seagate doesn't really know what the problem(s) with the drives is/are.
I'd settle for honesty at this point. Say "We really don't have a clue and would be happy to refund your money".
I think that most people here have the same problem and it isn't that the drives are failing, it's the lack of information.
I've flashed 8 drives to SD1A firmware and really don't know if I should use them or not. Right now I have $1000 worth of drives collecting dust because I can't be certain that the firmware has corrected the problem. Seagate has changed their collective minds so many times in the past few weeks about which date period, model numbers, serial numbers were as risk it's impossible to know what the real information is.
