Quoted from seagate website,

"Seagate has isolated this issue to a firmware bug affecting drives from these families manufactured in December 2008."

"With regards to Barracuda 7200.11, Barracuda ES.2 SATA, and DiamondMax 22 drives sold in December 2008,"

does that means hdd before this is not affected even though SD15 is used in hdd before that time?

i m using a 750GB and its with SD 15 firmware...but i didnt buy it on December2008... and it seems to be running without any problem... so do i still need a firmware update for my drive?

how to know is it an oem unit or not?

btw, i m not facing any bricked problem...
but kinda scare that it will happen although mine is not bought last month, but i m having the firmware thats affected...
maybe mine is alrite?
i seldom restart or shutdown the com....
could this help?

i m using the 750GB with SD15 firmware since May2008, so far no problem also.... i dont think i m gonna update the firmware until weeks or months later coz all latest firmware dunno safe to use or not...