updating hard drive firmware

Strokes

Strokes

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I was talking with a friend about updating his system, and the discussion led to firmware for devices. I told him that hard drives' firmware can be updated, but he thought it was unnecessary. Is it, or could updating the hard drive firmware actually improve performance?
 
If you have a seagate, firmware update can fix noise, clicking and freezing poblems; for me i updated my 7200.12 to cc46, it improved defragmenting; cause some files wouldnt defragment, I still have a few files which wont defragment but thats normal. So overall I'd say that a hard drive firmware could at most remove bottle neck and very slightly increase random write speeds. I think that hard drive firmware updates are for stability. I have a 500gb seagate 7200.12(418as) CC46firmware, and its awesome, my boot time is 7 seconds total including bios, login, and 11 startup programs.

I hope I helped,
-Lamim
 
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lemon07r said:
I have a 500gb seagate 7200.12(418as) CC46firmware, and its awesome, my boot time is 7 seconds total including bios, login, and 11 startup programs.
-Lamim
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I would like to see a video of that, don't get offended but I don't believe you.
 
lemon07r said:
If you have a seagate, firmware update can fix noise, clicking and freezing poblems; for me i updated my 7200.12 to cc46, it improved defragmenting; cause some files wouldnt defragment, I still have a few files which wont defragment but thats normal. So overall I'd say that a hard drive firmware could at most remove bottle neck and very slightly increase random write speeds. I think that hard drive firmware updates are for stability. I have a 500gb seagate 7200.12(418as) CC46firmware, and its awesome, my boot time is 7 seconds total including bios, login, and 11 startup programs.

I hope I helped,
-Lamim
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The BIOS POST on your board is more than seven seconds(I've used that board in the past), let alone booting from a mechanical hard drive.


Strokes said:
I was talking with a friend about updating his system, and the discussion led to firmware for devices. I told him that hard drives' firmware can be updated, but he thought it was unnecessary. Is it, or could updating the hard drive firmware actually improve performance?
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SSD's, you definately need to update firmware. Hard Drives, well, the 7200.12 from seagate introduced the idea of incremental firmware updates for drives, and with the latest update the drives are pretty quick.
 
bomberboysk said:
The BIOS POST on your board is more than seven seconds(I've used that board in the past), let alone booting from a mechanical hard drive.

SSD's, you definately need to update firmware. Hard Drives, well, the 7200.12 from seagate introduced the idea of incremental firmware updates for drives, and with the latest update the drives are pretty quick.
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My bios used to take 20 like seconds but I updated my bios, turned on quick boot, got a cmos crc check error (something like that XD), freaked out, ran tons of burn in tests, its running stable, so i did nothing, and now it takes the bios 2 seconds for the price of cmos error (still cant fix it, but its not like its done anything bad to me yet).

bigfellla said:
I would like to see a video of that, don't get offended but I don't believe you.
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Ummmm, is there a software that records from boot? I cant get hold of a cam atm. Maybe in a long while XD.
 
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