^Those Maxtor "thin" 40GB drives were horrid, one DVR manufacturer we deal with used them as system drives for an entire production line, and we ended up replacing almost all of them within two years of installing the systems (at least a couple dozen, just of the ones we service).

At least Seagate have a fix for it. Better than those 40gb IBM DEATHstar drives. I had like 2 of them and both are now dead. Funny thing was they died a couple times before and to bring them back to life, you just need to do a low level format. It will be fine for like a few months and then die again. Got so tired of it that i threw it on the ground.

As for the firmware update, I updated my STA3500320AS firmware SD15 that I bought during boxing week and it seems to be fine. I did an ASR on it just incase it doesnt come back to life and saved the file to my external drive. Followed the instructions and the upgrade was fine and easy.

Then price match the WD Caviar Black @ NCIX for $$131.97 http://www.onhop.ca/Product/10269353?f=Pricebat

Best price for 1TB I could find was $119 for the seagate, Might as well pay $11 for a much better one. BUT I think most people are interested in the SeaGate for the 1.5TB HDD. There's nothing else on the market thats 1.5TB. And it's not expensive, $148 for 1.5TB.

But imagine losing 1.5TB worth of data. That would piss anyone off. WD Black it is.

my seems fine but then again I am sitll using XP on my desktop =D