This rootkit is designed for a major brand of hard disk and can infect the firmware from within the operating system (no physical access required), it's also completely undetectable to software running on the host computer.
Skeptical about this -- especially the claim that it's "completely undetectable". One of the projects[1] we've worked on for 01.org now ships with UEFI SCT[2], which was designed to address this very issue.
Flash LUV to a USB and run the suites.. the tests will write to a folder on the USB, both "raw" and "parsed" results, so you can essentially have a log[3] of any issues.
[1] https://github.com/01org/luv-yocto
[2] http://firmware.intel.com/blog/linux-uefi-validation-project-incorporate-uefi-sct
[3] https://01.org/linux-uefi-validation