WELL, I got my hot little 1.5 TB drive and installed it and it and after about 10 minutes of transferring files it stalled and then blue screened my puter...afterwards I had a permanent BSOD on my OS. I reloaded the OS and found the drive constantly stalling when transferring data and could hardly navigate my pc. BTW the PC is running winxp sp2 on a AMD dual core platform w2 gig of ram, nothing unique about this puter. I was able to find the firmware update at BigUpload titled SeagateFlash15tb.rar. my model numbers and firmware matched the specs for the update so I downloaded it and ran the update from cd...WHAT A DIFFERENCE!!!!...it now runs like any other hd, no stalling or freezing and I can smoothly navigate the hd's. The business about this drive only failing under certain unique platforms is bull!..If you bought one and the specs match the firmware update then I strongly suggest you do the update before the hd even see's your O/S. I am very happy with the drive now. Read the instructions for the update fully before doing the update.

Thanks for the review - I'm actually looking at buying one of these drives.

I bought 2 of these drive for a desktop PC. (Intel 945 - chipset E2200 - 2 gig of mem - intel board)

I did flash the Hard drive to the newest bios with the bootable cd. I didn't use the floppy method. The files for the floppy were 1.13 megs a floppy can hold 1.44 megs I was using a dos 6.2.2 boot disk and I had to delete most of everything to get it to fit on a floppy but I must have deleted the wrong file because it didn't want to boot after I made space for it.

Lucky for me someone made a Bootable CD version and that how I got the drive to reflash to the newer bios.

My boot drive is a Maxtor 500gig sata2 drive. This Seagate 1.5Tb is a louder drive. You hear it when it reads and writes by the sounds it makes.
This 1.5 might not be the drive for you if you are trying to make a a home theater PC. If being quiet is the goal.
The drive run a bit hot so If you are attempting to put it in a external case you should look for one with a fan built in to keep this warm drive cool.

I did do the low level format and yes it did take about 7 hours. I wanted to stress the drive to make sure it not going to fail on me.

The price per gig is cheap and I did buy it for storage.

Even with the Noise issues and the Heat issues, I am still happy with my drives