jasonatepaint

I have 8 Seagate HDDs that fall under this "issue". Fortunately, they are all still working. Because of that I have NO intention on powering down the server until I get a fresh back-up of all data... so because of that, I don't have all the information you requested. I'll give you what I have so maybe it can help someone. I run all 8 drives on the 3Ware 9650SE-8LPML controller as 2 RAID-5 arrays on WinXP x64. The ST3750330AS drives were purchased/installed in March 08. The ST31000340AS drives were purchased/installed in Nov 08. All 8 drives were OEM bare drive and purchased thru ZipZoomFly.com. ARRAY 0 Model ST3750330AS | Firmware SD15 0 3QK0**** 1 3QK0**** 2 3QK0**** 3 3QK0**** ARRAY 1 Model ST31000340AS | Firmware SD15 4 5QJ0**** 5 5QJ1**** 6 6QJ0**** 7 5QJ1**** I've written Seagate, but I'm guessing I won't hear anything from them anytime soon. I prefer matching HDD in a RAID... who the hell would ever consider this to be an issue that escapes QA? Yeah, a RAID array on these drives scare the hell outta me at the moment. I chose Seagate years back for my old PATA IDE RAID mainly because they had a great price and had a 5 year warranty. That array (6 x 400gb RAID-5) is still up and running after 4+ years w/zero issue. That's why I chose Seagate when I built my new file/media server. Now I feel like I gotta tip-toe around the server until I get these drives replaced. Jason