Brought a Hard Disk finally!!!

A simple activity like buying a hard disk also bring around complexity in my life. The story goes something like this.

After waiting since long I have brought a hard disk for my system. It is a 500GB model of Seagate ST3500320AS with 32 MB cache.

I had got the hard disk one week earlier itself but unfortunately it was a ST3500820AS model which is the 8 mb model. but the thing is the Seagate does not make 8 MB model of 500 GB model. I find out that it is the result of a wrong firmware from Seagate. They loaded a 8 Mb model firmware on the 32 MB model resulting in the drive only using 8 MB of the available cache and wasting the rest.

I called up the shop for a replacement and they said i will get it when ever i take the hard disk to their shop.

I thought lets upgrade the firmware and I wont need to to got to the shop. I downloaded the latest firmware which was supposed to solve the issue AD14. Spent a day searching for any floppy disk lying around. I finally had to burn a cd for the firmware. It was gonna be dangerous since my CD drive is a SATA and the hard disk upgrade might be disturbed by it.

The upgrade failed and I had a SATA brick with me remaining as a trophy for my upgrade efforts.

I went and got it replaced this week and now have it running.

Next step is another one of this HDD and RAID 0.
The performance score for my Hard disk is as follows:
The Vista experience score for hard disk is now 5.9. Now working on processor to get it to 5.9.
(5.6 score is for AMD 6000+ overclocked to 3300 Mhz from BIOS)