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12.03.2013
2/10
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I have worked and owned a computer since 1997 and have only had 3 hard drives fail me in that time. The most recent failures were both Seagate Barracudas. This is a horrible series and as a result I WILL NEVER buy a Seagate again. I understand that sometimes there are unintentional errors during manufacturing but if you are a professional like myself and your data is sometimes invaluable (yes i backup) you don't even want to take a chance.Save your data, lost time and wasted money trying the BARRACUDA SERIES!!! Its abysmal and it will fail you sooner rather than later.I would post pics to prove it but just read Apple's official replacement plan to get the clue.... [...]
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15.03.2013
8/10
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I bought this drive about 2 years ago and the first one died (with the click of death) after just a week. I got an RMA from Amazon with no problem but then the RMA drive also failed with the click of death after about 6 months. This time I got it replaced through Seagate on warranty and have been running the replacement drive for about 6 months now with no issues.I remember reading something about Seagate having a bad batch of these 2TB drives back around the time I got the first one so I'm guessing I was just unlucky enough to get two of the bad ones.
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24.01.2010
4/10
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Just FYI - I always used seagate drives until they started a death march out of my systems. I'm leaving price comparison out of this review as sales come and go but drives need to last. I've paid $129-$179 for my Hitachi 2TB 7200 RPM drives depending on sales which was always comparable to the seagate 2TB or within $5 as I tried to find and fix a seagate reliability problem.My application is HD video editing. Drive access is virtually continuous. This makes for a nearly constant abuse on some drives. My editing system is an i7 975, 24GB main memory (3 banks of 8GB using 4GB dimms), 3XSLI Nvidia's, 3 HD displays, and 3 internal 2TB drives, all Hitachi ex-IBM. No 3 isn't my favorite number, the system just maxed out there and in video editing more is better.I started with ALL seagate drives going from 750G to 2TBs and in the past 12 months I have had a 750G, a 1.5T, and now a 2.0T 5400RPM die on me (and there is more than adequate ventilation). Before this failure cluster, the last drive to die was an 80 GB drive in a system configured as a router that was a dual P3, 5 years old, and also a seagate - so 5 years ago they were making good drives which is why we always spec'ed seagate storage. Suddenly things changed in quality control compared with Hitachi, who purchased IBM's storage division - always on the bleading edge.Basically Seagate went from a 5 year lifespan to a 1 year or less lifespan.I just re-did my storage system simultaneously while moving to windows 7 and used 6 hitachi (ex-ibm) drives purchased over 2 months, all 2TB at 7200 RPM. They run 6 degrees cooler than the seagates in the same enclosure idle, they have not had a single failure yet, and they are setup 3 in the main cpu, and 3 in a network backup that coppies the day changes from midnight to 6 am using windows home server. Despite HEAVY access on all 6 drives 24 hours/day rendering AVCHD into the edit suite and pressing blu-ray discs out, they have survived where the seagates died rapidly.The added speed of the 7200 RPM IBM drive is not evident with 24GB of main memory if your working disk in adobe is configured as a ram disk AND you have UPS power. It does show up in benchmarks as being faster but benchmarks are just guides - your specific usage environment will determine how fast the drives are if other bottlenecks are built into your SATA controller. Loosing your game score is alot less important than loosing your lifes's photo collection.As for my remaining working segates, I made a raid on a system that logs weather data from my honeywell weatherstation's usb port Honeywell TE923W Deluxe Weather Station with Rain Gauge, Barometer, Thermometer, Wind Data(it writes a file every 2 minutes). I'll see how they do (my 2TB seagates are the 5400 RPM - going to 5900 RPM is nothing to crow about when 7200 RPM drives are off the shelf from hitachi in 2TB, 1TB, and 500GB sizes (and probably more)I WAS a 100% seagate house - even wrote a positive review on their 1.5 TB when we started using it to get as much storage crammed into the backup server [one of those drives is now dead] Drives used to only get installed if it said seagate on the drive. After the failures started happening both in the WHS backup system (which is idle and spun down 18 hours a day) and the main cpu which runs 24 hours a day I made the switch to hitachi and have not looked back.If you do not have ample system memory, the 7200 RPM makes transcoding faster, but if not the 7200 RPM hitachi is still the pack leader in 2TB performance. All machines are now running windows 7, however the first hi-capacity seagate failure happened on a vista machine which was upgraded with the new hitachi-ibm disks during a clean win7 install.Fortunately both companies stand behind their drives with warranties, but the only real solution now is automated backup - there are 2 types of people - those who have lost valuable data due to hardware failure and those who back up regularly. Windows home server HP EX495 1.5TB Mediasmart Home Server ( Black)makes that a no brainer with the EX495 WHS system since you can add drives in under 2 minutes without tools as your needs grow, and you get a reminder if something is wrong.No matter who made the disk drive - BACK UP YOUR DATA. Or risk loosing it. Its your choice.
Скроменый эксперт
19.12.2012
2/10
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I've had this drive just a short time when it began to click at spin-up, a bad sign. It immediately became unrecognizable to the OS. A little searching showed this to be an all too common problem. Don't risk it. One star is still too much for this drive. I'm sure some are working well but do you ant to take that chance. Avoid the risk and go with WD, Hitachi or another brand.
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27.10.2012
8/10
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Good cheap storage. I have a RAID 5 array (+ 1 spare) of these pushing data to several simultaneous users, essentially a cheap attempt to solve an enterprise-level issue. The 20TB array held up without a hiccup from February 2011 until this week (almost November 2012) when I finally had a drive failure. I have 2 of these on hand as spares, cloned the failed drive to the new drive using a linux boot disk (SystemRescueCD), popped the new disk in and rebuilt the array with no data loss.Pretty nifty, cheap storage.
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06.02.2013
10/10
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This was a replacement for a NAS Drive system, When replacing drives replace with exactly the same drive to work.
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25.04.2011
10/10
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Just few years ago, 2TB storage for less than $200 was not possible. Now, it is $79 and you just can't go wrong. This product will satisfy anyone who meets the following requirements.* Fast access speed across multiple users is not required* General storage such as Home media or office file access is primary use* Ideal for RAID 0 or 1 usage for combined storage or redundancy* Home Server or NAS server usage for family or SOHO type environmentIf this is used for the boot drive (I did not), it will work adequately but it won't be the fastest booting PC either. Can't beat faster spin rate of a good 7200 or 10k RPM on high performance drive. I've used two of these on my HOME server I've built using leftover PC parts with RAID 0 to combine it to 4GB. I have many video files I keep for Windows Media Server streaming and TV recordings which uses quite a bit of HDD space so these are great.It is quiet and heat isn't much of an issue but running two drives will increase noise decibel. For the most users, the noise is not a concern. A multiple users streaming HD contents from the same drive will cause some hiccups. I've found most MKV files with encoding rate of 1 hour worth of video @ 2 GB weren't an issue. I do have some HDD test material that is only 20-30 minutes but it is 8 GB or more (Blu-Ray quality) had minor issues. If one should have direct rip of Blu-ray movies that are 20GB or larger size and entire family is watching a movie from a Home server, this would not work well. I had a spare RAID card (standalone PCIE RAID which cost about $300) and it worked much better than S/W based Intel RAID which is widely available from most Intel based chipset PCs but multiple streaming of high bandwidth program caused intermittent playback issue. While recording TV broadcasting at HD quality (Windows Media Center) and playback of MKV file at the same time was not an issue.Copy speed and read speed is good for price class. It was consistent throughout entire transfer which I've copied almost 2TB from my desktop PC to Home server and took about 14 hours to transfer. It was about the same speed as USB 2.0 based external HDD which I've tried. It pays off to have entire house running 1 Gbit Ethernet wiring. I've tried the same with wireless router (N-protocol Dual Band) and it wasn't even half way finished next morning.
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05.02.2010
8/10
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Update - September 24 After seven months of use, this huge drive continues to impress me. There have been no quality problems, despite my concern about Seagate. The drive is quiet - even when spinning up to speed after sleeping, and I've yet to come close to filling it beyond 1/3 of its cavernous capacity.Between my digital photography and my music collection, I seem to be testing the limits of my hard disk storage all the time. Five years ago, I could back up all my rock MP3 files on about five CDs. Now, I have about 20 gigs of MP3 files - including many songs I haven't even had time to play. After having a hard disk failure in the 1980s and losing a lot of valuable information, I am VERY back-up conscious and have copies of copies of copies. But as my digital library of photos and music expands, where does all this data go?If anything has become competitively priced over the years, it has to be data storage. I remember buying a 250 MB drive back in my early days of computing and being wowed that it cost only $249 - less than a buck a megabyte. Now, a 2 terabyte drive from Seagate costs less than half and stores roughly 8000 times what that 250 mb drive did.I've had some tough experience with Seagate drives over the years. I used to buy them faithfully, but noticed that they tended to be more problematic than Western Digital and Maxtor drives. When a drive started to lose files, need error correction, or would just plain die, more often than not it was a Seagate drive I had to yank out of service.I obtained this Seagate drive despite my history with Seagate and haven't regretted it - not yet anyway. The "Amazon Frustration Free Packaging" means that it comes in a bag, without any other packaging or instructions for that matter. If you've installed or replaced hard drives before, great ... you know what you are doing. If you are new to replacing drives or adding them to your desktop or external drive enclosure, don't expect any handholding with an instruction sheet. Get a friend to help you install and connect the drive, then format it for use in your computer. This drive was not initially recognized by my Windows 7 desktop, but after a reboot and reattaching the connections, it was "there" and just needed a quick format. I chose to leave the entire drive as one huge partition, rather than break it up with separate drive letters. I was up and running with the new drive in less than ten minutes.This Seagate drive is a low power unit, meaning that it will spin down after several minutes of inactivity, then come back to life - and quite quickly - when called into action. My Dell Vostro desktop computer with the new drive in it is right next to my right ear - about 20 inches away - and I can hear it when it kicks in - but it is very quiet and I don't sense any significant performance hit when it has to wake up and go to work. And big? Holy cow! I've used the drive for over a week and run complete backups of everything onto it and still, only a tiny pie slice of used space appears on the drive map of my new Seagate. I'm considering a network attached storage addition to my home network and will probably buy one more of these drives and use them for permanently moving all my digital music, movie and picture files there.I'm impressed - so far - with my new Seagate drive. I haven't granted amnesty to Seagate for past drive failures I've experienced, so I'll still be religiously backing up up to other external drives, but this 2 terabyte drive looks like a keeper.Update - September 24 After seven months of use, this huge drive continues to impress me. There have been no quality problems, despite my concern about Seagate. The drive is quiet - even when spinning up to speed after sleeping, and I've yet to come close to filling it beyond 1/3 of its cavernous capacity.
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23.12.2012
10/10
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Haven't had any issues with these since purchasing them 2 years ago for a home NAS. Units work great for this configuration.
Скроменый эксперт
01.12.2012
10/10
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This drive was delivered promptly and is a replacementdrive for my NAS. It formatted without a problem and hopefully I will never need it, but if I do I am confident that it will work just fine.
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24.09.2011
4/10
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I bought this drive around 1 year ago and I was very happy with the huge capacity (2TB) so I decided to use it as a backup disk and to move data around computers using it with an enclosure. At the beginning it was a dream; files, music, photo, video, everything in a single place, but almost a year later it started to die. Every time I try to save something in the disk it starts to make weird cracking noises and then it just will turn off, I connected the disc directly to my computer (as an internal unit) and windows won't open it, ubuntu will get me a nice message saying "failure imminent, backup your data and replace the disk," but at least it will allow me to access and copy my files from the disk. The question is, where do I get enough space to backup 1.5tb of data? A new western digital external disc will do the trick, but it's a trick I wasn't willing to pay for. I bought an additional disc to backup my data, and I made a lot of tests to the disc. Format it, use seagate tools sofware, create partitions, delete partitions, hdd regenerator (it started to vibrate a lot), another enclosure, I tested the enclosure with a 7 years old samsung pata hdd and it worked (old technology seems more reliable) Finally I decided not to use seagate any more, I own a few WD hhds that never died on the other hand I have 3 seagate hdds, with 2 of them dead.
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14.05.2011
4/10
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I was looking for a large HDD to store media files and bought this one because it was on sale. I hadn't used a Seagate HDD before so thought I'd take a chance. Unfortunately, this will probably be my last Seagate purchase as well.The HDD installed fine but wasn't formatted so wasn't recognized by my computer. Inconvenient, but not a problem. Rather than using the native Windows 7 HDD tool, I installed the packed in Discwizard software. The software detected and formatted the HDD without a hitch, or so it seemed. When I tried to reboot my computer later on, it wouldn't boot. I'll skip the details, but after a lot of troubleshooting it turns out that the software messed up the master boot record of my computer. This problem was easily fixed once identified, but this kind of problem should not exist with an HDD installation.During my research, I discovered that the firmware my HDD shipped with (0034) has known issues (such as the loud operation and clicking some people complain about). Upgrading the firmware turned out to be an ordeal. Again, this kind of problem shouldn't exist with an HDD installation. I don't know why they ship HDDs with firmware that is known to be bad.I ultimately returned the HDD because of all these problems, although I did get it working for a while and it was fine during that period. But I can't trust an HDD that gave me so many problems during installation with my media files. I've installed dozens of HDDs in several computers and have never had half the problems I had with this one.This gets two stars instead of one because I did get it working eventually, and once working it was apparently fine. Plus it came with a SATA cable which was convenient. If you manage to install this without problems then it's a good value.
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21.03.2011
10/10
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i've only used seagate hard drives for the past 5 years and they are the best drives i've ever had. other brands were prone to failures in as little as 6 months. but seagates have always lasted and i have yet to have a failure.i bought 6 of the 2tb drives to put in my media center pc to replace the 5 smaller assorted size drives currently in it. tons of space for the low price can't be beat. can store over a thousand movies on one of these drives, or over a hundred thousand songs, or could possibly store over a million photos on one.the drives i got were all quiet, as they should be. no grinding, no clicking, no loud noise from the motor. these are usually signs of a drive failing. i was sitting right next to the pc moving files between the old drives and the new drives with the case open and the fans were much louder then the drives.as for the speed, its what i would expect from a 5900 rpm drive, slow. but that does not bother me at all. they are in a media center pc that is only used when watching movies or tv shows, so speed is not an issue and i would have bought slower drives if they were cheaper. i never do a quick format for new drives, and since these drives are large and slow, the full format takes 3-4 hours. it also takes several hours to copy 800gb to one of the drives.you may need to update your motherboards chipset drivers to get windows to use the drives full size
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21.01.2012
2/10
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Purchased this drive 2 months ago to run a duel boot system. Clicking sound started after 2 weeks of light use. Today after not running the machine for 2 weeks, the system can no longer boot. This was my first seagate drive and for quick replacement they charge $10, for a drive that fails!!! That's great support for a product.
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15.01.2012
10/10
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4th Barracuda drive that I buy. Not because I need to replace the other ones but because they are so reliable that I keep adding storage space to my RAID backup system!! First time 2TB HDD but since I had three 1TB I felt very confident getting this new 2TB!These HDDs very quiet and I will buy more as soon as I need to!
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13.10.2010
10/10
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11 1/2 MONTH UPDATEThe one drive is now almost unusable, the other is still perfect. Every time I move files to it or read from the failing drive, it generates a bunch of bad sectors and hangs for extended periods. I am now up to 175 bad sectors and it seems to be accelerating rapidly. I do not expect it to last long and definitely cannot trust it. When it does fail I am not going through the nightmare of getting a Seagate replacement. From numerous past experiences you get a refurb that won't last long and certainly can't be trusted. When you are talking about a 2tb drive, it just isn't worth the extended time and effort trying to use a drive that probably will fail shortly anyway. My advice....stay away from drives with a bunch of reliability problems. The warranty may as well come on a roll. Look at that other site that has a lot of user data and look closely at the failure rates and choose accordingly....some are definitely better than others.9 MONTH UPDATEOne of the 2 drives has just started to throw reallocationed sectors. It is up to 14 right now (about 1 a day) and has 2 "high fly writes" also. I'm glad the price on 2tb drives is falling since I may be replacing one soon.***************************Absolutely astounding delivered price of only 5 cents per gig. It truly is amazing how much stuff you can put on these things....I've got over a thousand movies on one of the drives that I play though my media player over my wi-fi. I've seen others complaining about them being noisy...the 2 I bought are silent to my ears. SMART says they operate cool at about 32C in my case - slow turning fan blowing on drive cage. Their performance seems fine, when empty, I saw 120MB/s sequential reads and writes. No reallocated sectors, SMART says everything is good, but I've only had them a month. So far, I'm happy, if they screw up, I'll let you know.
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04.03.2011
8/10
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Hard drives in this category are taking the place of optical storage media such as DVDs or Blu-Ray and for good reason. It's a bang-for-the-buck deal, lots of storage at a cheap price with fairly fast access. Hard drives are simply easier to deal with than a pile of optical media that takes up space and needs to be sorted, labeled and stored. Writing to optical media takes time, a lot of it when dealing with even modest amounts of data. Have a lot of data to archive or back up? One of the fastest and cheapest ways is to use a hard drive. These Seagate 2 TB drives offer a good value when compared with others in their class and are often found on sale. They run reasonably cool and are fast enough to serve demanding video files. Frankly, they can be used for boot drives too although they may not thrill the true enthusiast they will do a decent job with an operating system for the average user. These are not the quietest of drives but are far from the noisiest either. If you are using one or more of these to back up sensitive data then be sure to use a decent raid setup in case of a drive failure or simply duplicate your data on a pair of drives. Yes hard drives will fail but at these prices a user can afford some redundancy and still enjoy fast easy access to their data.
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31.01.2011
2/10
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ORIGINAL REVIEW JANUARY 2011: I bought the 2TB Seagate "green" drive for capturing video from my VCR tapes to convert them to AVI for editing. The drive was a little too slow however and kept dropping regions from long video captures. After 40 minutes of capturing it would show a large file but would only retrieve the last few minutes of it. I repeated the process several times with the same result.I solved the problem by capturing video onto my main 7200 rpm drive, then transferring the files to the Seagate for editing and storage. That added an extra step to the process but it worked. Apparently the 3Gb/sec. rating is for reading and playback only, not writing.UPDATE MAY 14, 2012: - The drive died without warning. All data unretrievable. I was using it for storage of video, business graphics, website data, pictures and the entire "My Documents" file. It was working at 1AM when I shut it down but would not be recognized the next day at boot up. Yes I took it out, put it in external devices and tested it several different ways but could not retrieve data. The motor spins quietly but with no data output whatsoever.So if it's too slow for video capture or for use as a main drive, and unreliable for longer term storage, what good is it? It must be still under warranty but I'm not certain that I really want another one just like it. Hmph...
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15.02.2010
10/10
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As I was installing this drive in my Mac Pro yesterday, it really struck me that a device with the same footprint as a 320 MEGABYTE drive that came installed on my 90 Mhz Pentium fifteen years ago can now hold two TERABYTES. Truly staggering how fast technology is improving.Seagate has been producing storage devices since the late seventies, and I've always found their products to mostly be reliable and trouble-free. This new drive is no exception. It installs easily (as all drives do) and is fast enough for high definition video editing from an AVCHD source. This frustration free packaging edition comes with just the bare drive, no cables or screws are included.This is also the latest in a new line of "green" hard drives coming from major storage manufacturers, rotating at 5900 RPM (most larger drives tend to spin at 7200). The slower rotation speed results in slightly longer drive latency times, so replacing a 7200 rpm drive with this one for a boot drive might result in a slight reduction in performance.Still, a two terabyte drive is best suited for long term storage such as photos, videos, large files, etc. And if that is an intended goal you need to continue shopping once this item is added to your cart for a reliable backup solution. No matter how great the manufacturer hard drives will eventually fail and die. These are tiny and complex machines with parts spinning thousands of times per minute. The fact they work at all is a miracle!I suggest buying two or more comparably sized external drives and develop a backup strategy that includes rotating the backup drives offsite (work, second home, safe deposit box, etc). On the Mac it's easy, simply have Time Machine do the work for you. On the PC, find something that works and develop a regular plan of backing up your work. There are online services that can securely (but slowly) back your data as well.Given how my Mac Pro is a glutton when it comes to electricity, I doubt this power saving drive will result in any kind of reduction in my monthly electric bill. Still, this is an affordable way to add a significant amount of storage. Just be sure to back it up.One other note -- Amazon did not package this drive well for shipping to me. It was protected only by plastic air pillows, a few of which deflated by the time the drive arrived. It would be better if they followed the lead of other distributors of bare drives and wrap them in bubble wrap to protect shocks during shipping.
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21.01.2011
8/10
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After a lot of research, I purchased 5 of these hard drives to use in a QNAP TS 659 pro+ NAS enclosure that I also purchased from Amazon.I was worried about some of the reports that stated people had issues with these in a raid setting. I was also woried about people mentioning the packaging was really poor through amazon. I am happy to report that the shipping box(es) that I received from amazon had air bubble pillow style packaging, as well as each individual hard drive was in a separate box inside of the main box, in a proper suspension setup.There were no cables, disks, etc, as is normal with a BARE DRIVE type of hard drive package. After installation and testing, I found no bad sectors. My raid is building now, and I will update this review if necessary.Of note, I performed a firmware flash of my HDDs before installation after reading multiple recommendations from various website,s including a seagate form. I had to "force" the update on the drives, which can be done by following the directions at the following web site: [...].This is a Seagate form, so I felt comfortable performing a force update. No clicking, no issues so far. Great price for a 2TB HDD. I can buy 2 spare drives and still it will not equal the price of 1 "raid class" HDD.
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29.01.2010
10/10
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Update 7:2 years of perfect operation. Working great through 8997 hours and 1187 power-on cycles.Update 6:1.5 years of fine operation. Working well through 6720 hours and 819 power-on cycles. No issues.Update 5:1 year of trouble-free operation.Update 4:10 full months of trouble-free operation.Update 3:7 full months of trouble-free operation.Update 2:5 full months of trouble-free operation.Others have written about quickly experienced "clicks of death" with this drive.Mine has worked fine out the box, and has kept doing so since day one (when I ran multiple tests with some large data transfers.This is fine product: reasonably priced and lots of storage.As the product description states, this is an OEM "bare drive" package. It arrived with only the bare drive in an anti-static envelope (no SATA cable or mounting screws).I did not have an available drive bay in my computer, so I first mounted this drive in an external SATA hard drive enclosure that connects to a computer via USB cable. I used the Antec MX-100 3.5-Inch USB Aluminum Enclosure for SATA Hard Drive.The drive ships unformatted. I used Windows 7 disk management tools to label the volume, assign a drive letter and format the drive (I used NTFS). It was immediately recognized by multiple computers running Windows XP and Windows 7 after doing so. The full capacity of the drive was indicated in both operating systems, even though I was connecting via the external USB 2 interface.I ran this drive for approximately 12 straight hours of constant read/write operations without issue; little noise or heat could be heard or felt from the external enclosure.I then removed it from the enclosure and swapped it out with an older, lower capacity SATA drive inside my PC (which has two internal hard drives). After installation, Windows 7 immediately recognized the new Seagate drive and the full available capacity (1.8TB available after formatting).Finally, I would echo the comment of one other reviewer that Amazon overachieved in its "frustration free packaging" quest. This package shipped from Nevada to California to the east coast. It bore the scars of many of those 3000+ miles, and there was a little too much room inside the box for the disk to bounce around for my comfort. I consider this an Amazon --rather than a Seagate issue-- and it did not appear to have caused any damage to the drive (even if the box wasn't very pretty upon arrival).
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03.02.2011
8/10
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I purchased this internal hard drive along with an enclosure to use as an external HD for my Dell Dimension 5150. Setup was easy, however, I had never done this before so a slight learning curve was encountered. I found instructions online and everything went together nicely. It was not necessary to change settings on the drive; it is done automatically and as long as the switch is turned on, the drive will be recognized. Do not attempt to change the BIOS!I like how the added drive automatically gives me an additional 2 TB of storage--more than enough room for all my photos, videos, even enough to back up the entire system. This allows me to extend the life of a relatively fast, but five-year-old computer.Backup is fast, noise level is somewhat noticeable but not distracting. The unit seems to stay cool, which was a potential problem if it did not. I have it set up alongside my flat screen monitor and it is handy and takes up no more space that a VHS tape box.Time will tell how reliable it proves to be, but for now, it was a good move and is working perfectly.I used a Coolmax 3.5" external enclosure (Model HD-389-U2(SATA).
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09.12.2010
10/10
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Великолепно
I found this drive to be as quiet a drive as any I've had. When they say a 'Bare Drive' they mean it. But having said that the drive performs flawlessly. I had to purchase a separate SATA data and power cable which I found on Amazon at a very fair price. It also came in a 'Frustration-Free Packaging' box. No complaints here just a concern. It was so easy to open, the box wasn't even taped shut. I was glad to see the drive in the box when I got it and not some weighted object in place of. The box flap that tucks into the sides of the box did hold it together nicely. I thought a jumper setting was going to be necessary coming from an IDE and older BIOS background but it turned out not so. The computer recognized it immediately and I was up and running in no time. I got the drive nearly a week earlier than Amazon's projected receive date. Would recommend Amazon to any and all who have yet to shop here. Deals are great. Shipping is first rate. They have a well organized and laid out site unencumbered by glitz and glamor. They are a pleasure to deal with. And from someone who has limited access to the local shopping malls they are the next best thing. Why put up with brick and mortar stores' foot traffic when you can shop from your home. Thanks Amazon. Happy Holidays.
Скроменый эксперт
26.11.2010
2/10
Оценка пользователя
Ужасно
My Seagate harddrive stopped working 2 days after I bought it. When you buy harddrive, look for the brand with higher reliability because you don't want to return your harddrive.First, harddrive usually dies without any symtoms. When it fails, it fails immediately. Once it stops working, you cannot retrieve or remove any data. There are two things you can do, either you return it for repair, or discard it.If you decide to return it for repair, most likely they will give you a refurbished (used) harddrive. In the other words, it could be returned by someone or it was defective before and repaired. So the reliability of it is not guaranteed. Also, you will need to pay for shipping and handling (usually $8 + $20 = $28).Another thing is the data security. Your defected harddrive most likely contains your personal data, which you cannot retrieve or remove after it fails. Once you send it to repair, they may give you a different refurbished harddrive first. After fixing your defected harddrive, they may send it to a different customer. Although every used hardrive will be wiped, it is still possible to retrieve the data unless the harddrive is wiped for 35 times (Industry standard is 7 times).In my opinion, get a better brand. If it fails, don't return or repair it unless you don't care your data security.
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