Seagate 7200.10 - .Whats's up with .aak?

[lardiop]

Anyone got more information regarding Seagate's 7200.10 .aak firmware/revision?

Some people say the .aak drives are throttled down to around 55MB/s, which is significantly slower than earlier models. Others claim the benchmarking tools are flawed and I've translated a few non-English sites who claim the .aak runs just fine.

I'm kind of worried because I have an original 320GB .aa drive, and I liked it so much I just splurged and bought 2x500GB 7200.10's from NCIX.com. The majority of the people on their forums claim NCIX is shipping .aak drives.

Thanks,

- Paul

[young wing]

idk if this will help but did you take off the jumper in the rear? There are a few benchmark figures in the forum, somewhere..

[unhappy_mage]

The jumper will make little or no difference. If you can't find research on this, consider it an opportunity to contribute to the body of knowledge ;) Even something as simple as running HDTach on one of each disk would help. If you break out a stopwatch you get bonus points*!

*Not redeemable for cash, though. I asked.