Two brand-new 2TB Drives w/ different firmware

Hi, I purchased two identical 2TB hard drives (model #WDC WD2001FASS-00W2B0) but for some reason they differ in their firmware: Drive #1 Model: WDC WD2001FASS-00W2B0 Firmware Version: 05.01D05 Drive #2 Model: WDC WD2001FASS-00W2B0 Firmware Version: 01.00101 Any ideas why and how I can get the latest firmware? I couldn’t find it under the download section. Thanks, SW

As far as I know, the Firmware used on WD’s internal drives is not open to the public.

However, you could try to contact them and see if there’s any way to do it, even though the code is not published.

I hope it helps!

It may be worth comparing the performance using HD Tune’s benchmark:
http://www.hdtune.com/