Seagate and I are done: 320GB AAK firmware - they won't help me with a HD swap!

[jeeka]

Extra fsb actually does something for you, while extra str does basically nothing. Don't compare apples to oranges. Look at raid 0 real world benchmarks, they get nearly no improvements by gaining nearly 100% extra str and here you are making a huge deal over 4.

I was mainly complaining about you wasting Seagate employees' time and flat out bashing them over something so insignificant as this. You are like one of those people that get into a huge fight with the cashier that gave them 2c less change than he was supposed to.

When you do raid your drives at least make a fast slice on the outer tracks so all your efforts don't go into complete and utter waste.

Actually One_Hertz, that is nothing like how I am. If anything I get harped on for being TOO QUIET about stuff. I was not upset as the initial post entailed. I am sorry you perceived it that way. Obviously they were working on a "fix" (we could debate that term as we have) before I even asked, as the file was date Jan 16th, 2008. So I wasn't wasting people's time. I was asking for support for a question I had with a product that I bought. That's all. You have made broad generalizations about how I am as a person based on my post. That's not right.

C'mon man, you are telling me you've never had a bone to pick with something, "significant" or not? You obviously had one to pick with me..?

Seriously though, bottom line, I didn't create the issue, this has been around for MONTHS, I was just the one to make progress on it. For the people who use it, this will help THEM.

We could also argue minute gains in FSB that help performance, seeing as many other things come into play, like strap setting changes, voltages, heat, as you know....It matters more to some than others....I am the "some" and you are the "others" in this case....

Tell all the others who wanted this file that I was wasting people's time....

Agree to disagree.