Hitachi 1tb Drives

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NewEgg ran a sale on 1tb Hitachi drives for $50 and I finally decided to bite. From what I've read, they are a little more RAID-friendly than WD's Caviar Black drives that I use for my other machines. I bought 10 of these:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145304

I'm reading and it seems this series has an old and a new firmware. Searching Hitachi's website, I've been unable to find a firmware update for the drives or a way to check what is the latest version. I intend to use 8 of these in a RAID 5 on an LSI 8308ELP PCI-E RAID controller and the other 2 I'll keep for spares. Does anyone have any suggestions/cautions regarding preparing these to be used for the next three years in that setup?
 
Hey Shaggy8675, thanks for the tips! I just hooked up the drives in a RAID 5. I've got 8 of them. However, now I'm running into a really odd performance issue - I'm only pulling about 130-180mb/s. I had 6 320gb 7200.10 drives in a RAID 5 before with the same settings and was pulling a maximum of 200mb/s... I expected adding 2 drives and switching to a newer type of drive + larger ones would have resulting in a performance increase, not decrease. Thoughts/suggestions as to what's up?
 
Mhh, strange indeed. I really haven't got a clue. I'm not familiar with LSI, so perhaps a post in the LSI topic might get you the answer you seek.

On my Areca 1220 speeds go up to around 350-400mb/s with 5 7K1000.C in raid 5. So it should be able to do a lot better.
 
Yeah going to post there next. I thought it might be because of the background initialization but it clearly does not appear to be the culprit as that has now finished and the performance hasn't changed. :(
 
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