Which one is better, send for RMA and let them swap it with a second hand certified repaired HDD with the new sticker SD1A, and then sell it or reflash the old thing SD15 to SD1A and keep it myself .. confuse confuse .. 

yes, that is the right firmware, btw the flashing process will take u only 1 minutes or so

My HDD temperature increased a little after the firmware update, roughly around 2C to 3C. Anyone else experiencing the same thing?

mine is AD14 rev and ST3500320AS

so basically i just burn the iso image ... and then load it during bootup and follow accordingly?

windows is on the hdd that is gonna b flashed ... will it affect anything?

pls do help b4 i flash it

anyone experience random 2~3 second lag after the  firmware update?

OK guys...
It's already a month since Seagate release the SD1A  to replace the SD15 firmware..
Anyone facing problem after update to SD1A?
Or,anyone here still using SD15 and feel their drive still strong even not update to SD1A??

*I'm on of the user still using SD15... No problem so far...

time to warranty

-Hmm, shouldn't it be SD1A instead?
DST=Drive Self-Test; a built-in diagnostic functionality within the drive.
Regards.

Any of you guy's 500Gb~1Tb HDD sent to RMA and came back perfect and working fine ? or you guys just sell it away ?

Now which one of your HDD  bricked this time ? the RMAed or the other one ?

new problem?or old one?
lazy to read few pages back...

bring to summit

I just got my RMAed HDD back, gonna update u guys when something happends.

Btw, its packed with a SD1A firmware. Anyone with an RMAed HDD running a SD1A with problems ? Im having a hard time making the decision whether i should shift my current OS back to it.

Man I was duped into buying this HDD because it was cheap, now I know why. It is reported that the 7.11 Barracudas with the AD15 firmware has problems and retailers are getting up to a 30% return rate for these bricks.

Physically, your HDD is fine, so the freezing trick will NOT help. Symptons after an uncertain number of booting up your HDD will not be detected by BIOS (and possibly all your other SATA/PATA devices, even non-Seagate ones), or your BIOS reports it having 0GB capacity. Your data is still intact, however, something in the firmware is telling the BIOS that it is busy.

You can read some bits of it here:
http://forums.seagate.com/stx/search?submi...AS&page_size=10
Or search on on google for the ST3500320AS+BIOS

Simply due to the fact that Seagate doesn't want to acknowledge that this is a problem (because they don't want to fix it, not for free anyway) is enough for me to boycott Seagate products for EVER.
Update:

Since there are many questions asking "which model is affected" etc, I'm copy pastaring the potentially affected models here:

http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/self...sp?DocId=207951

Drive Family:
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11

Models Affected:
ST3500320AS
ST3640330AS
ST3750330AS
ST31000340AS

Firmware Affected
SD15, SD16, SD17, SD18, SD19, AD14

Recommended Firmware Update:
SD1A

So far, the firmware update doesn't work for OEM drives (P/N) ending with 303. And some claim the firmware update DOESN'T fix the bricking issue, just the cache issue. It's up to you to decide whether or not to update. You are responsible for your data.
More updates (Jan 23):
Here's a firmware to patch the SD15 to SD1A

http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/self...sp?DocId=207951

Download the appropriate ISO file for your drive model, burn it onto a CD (or a USB key if you know how), reboot and if your drive is still detectable, flash it accordingly.

It is not known if the firmware will stop the bricking issue (BSY/LBA0) or cause other issues, but I have successfully flashed the firmware to SD1A on my remaining ST3500320AS, and it has been running for 10 minutes now.

Firmware does NOT fix BSY state drives, I don't know about the LBA0 drives.

may i know how to update the HDD firmware?
my hdd juz back frm RMA...
the fw is sv17..

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Added on May 14, 2009, 9:20 pmand FW update will bring the HDD aviod the problem(cant be detect) ?