Well, our distributor had already patched in the newer (fixed) firmware, so we didn't have that problem at all. I had been prepared to flash it myself, but it was already done. Really, we haven't suffered any drive failures from the firmware problem. Stuff like this happens every once in a while to all the manufacturers, and it isn't as severe as, say, problems that we've had with the 400GB Hitachi "Deathstar" drives. We still like Seagate a lot.