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28.01.2011
8/10
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I am not sure why so many reviewer's complain about noise or product failure but neither has been my experience. I have three drobo four bay raid devices and each contains four seagate 2 Terabit Hard Drives. I have been using some of the drives for over two years without a single drive failure. As for the noise, as I said, I am running twelve drives in three mac computers all operating at the same time and the noise level is a non issue. Perhaps it is the drobo enclosure that provides the wisper quiet sound but regardless I find no objectional noise. The five year limited warranty is far above the three year you get with other nationally recognized brands. The price is far below the box store prices. If you are in the market for a large capacity drive at this point with the technology this is a real steal. In time, the 3 Tb drives will gain the market share but their price per bit is still far above the 2TB drives. If you own a 4 bay drobo (as I do) you will be glad to know that in March of this year the company is providing a firmware upgrade to allow the 2.5 and 3.0 Tb drives to work.
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17.04.2011
10/10
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I purchased a Seagate Barracuda LP 2TB drive (ST32000542AS) as a bare drive to replace a failed (2-year old) OEM Seagate drive in my HP EX 487 MediaSmart Server . The drive arrived very well packaged from Amazon, and it was a very simple operation to swap it into the HP server drive sled and plug it in. The "restore" operation was a bit slow (especially over a wireless connection), but I was delighted to find that we had lost NO data (due to drive mirroring). I would heartily recommend this very-large-capacity drive to other MediaSmart Server users as a simple plug-and-play upgrade. Think about it: 2TB of storage for under $100... and if you're not replacing a failed disk, this can go straight into an open bay for full mirroring of your digital data and memories. Great deal for some peace of mind.
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02.11.2010
10/10
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We wanted to replace our old four servers with a new and very fast machine, so we bought different parts in order to build a system custom built by ourselves.This disks are way silent than the previous generation, a little more reliable and quite less power consuming than 7200rpm disks. We bought 18, two arrays of 8 disks plus 2 spare disks. That system contains all our services: general accounting, general payments, payroll, etc., all the financial stuff; plus file server, and the most important, several centralized databases that are heavily requested from our customers and our own engineers.All is smooth, we only have performed scheduled maintenance, and no problems after several months of uninterrupted operation, at a fraction of the price that local dealer charged us. We were a little concerned that 5900rpm disks would perform much slowly than 7200, but we could take it, since there were no 2GB 7200 disks at the time we bought these. Well, performance stays well over our own expectations, is more than enough for all our needs (we are 130 users, about 100 of them engineers, and more than 30 outside users, our customers).Is not a server grade disks, but it's cheap and more than enough reliable for us.Ah!, Seagate does not say this, but I can confirm that these disks are absolutely hot-swap capable when used with the proper caddy.Totally recommended.
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21.09.2011
10/10
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I had an old dell, purchased some RAM from crucial and this hard drive to make it 1 more year and soo far soo good. I really enjoy using it to hold music, movies, documents, etc etc. So far I have no complaints.
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23.05.2011
2/10
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I thought all seagate drives came with a five year warranty, but it turns out you can buy cheap ones or more expensive ones and effectively prepay for the warranty. I use a lot of drives and generally have drives last in the 5 year range, and so I often return drives within the 5 year warranty period, so these drives (that came with a 3 year warranty, 6 months already expired) were not acceptable to me, and I returned them and paid $30 more to get drives with a 5 year warranty.I'm still a Seagate fan (the 2TB problem they had for a while seems to be gone), but I just check the warranties more carefully now.
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03.12.2010
2/10
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I'm a frequent buyer at Amazon. Though I bought more than 100 items from Amazon, this is just my 2nd review. My first review was for my MacBook Pro sleeve. And, here is my 2nd review.I wrote my first review because I just loved it that I thought I should support the product. Now, in this case, the disappointment-to-the-core caused me to write this really-bad review for Seagate. I mentioned this so that you can understand how utterly disappointed I was with these Seagate hard drives.I bought 2 of these hard drives for my Synology DS410. And, with in one month of usage, the first drive broke. It was completely unusable and I lost all of my precious data [some of my fine collection gathered over more than a decade] stored in it. I'm still cursing Seagate for this.I was planning to set up a remote backup for my NAS knowing that any hard drive will not survive for long. But, I didnt expect that it would happen in less than a month and that too from someone called "Seagate".I returned both my drives back to Amazon and planning to go with Hitachi this time. I hope Hitachi doesn't disappoint me.I DO NOT RECOMMENT THESE HARD DRIVES AT ANY COST. TO THAT POINT, ANY PRODUCT FROM SEAGATE.
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17.01.2011
8/10
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I bought 4 of these during the black Friday sale 70usd a piece. A little research before buying suggested a firmware upgrade would fix the Click of death problem that many people complained about. Its been a month but the Click still happens even though I updated the firmware but only on spin up. Read and write speeds are no where near what I expected it to be in a 0+1 RAID setup. Spin-up takes forever. I made the mistake of installing Warcraft 3 on that RAID setup and I could not host an online game (everyone would say I lagged out). I did try a RAID 5 before going doing 0+1 and it would constantly drop one of the 4 drives. What these drives do, they do well and that is provide cheap and plentiful storage. If you are buying them for something else, they will fail miserably. I don't think anyone has gotten RAID 5 working with these drives other than a pure software mode such as inside Windows server or Linux. 2TB of storage is plenty to loose so at least run a RAID 1 since these are so cheap.
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17.04.2011
8/10
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I bought 6 total of these drives. Within the first 30 days one drive failed with SMART errors. This was no problem for me since I was using it in a RAID 6 volume. Amazon was great at sending me out a new drive in 2 days. I have since re-optimized my RAID array and no more SMART errors for now. I had never had a drive fail so quickly, and I was fortunate to have a method to recover the failed drive. 2TB is a lot to lose if a total data failure occurs. Overall, I would still buy again. One bad drive out of six is not too bad, and who's to say maybe the drive sustained damage in shipping. I give the benefit of the doubt to Seagate and Amazon on this one.
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21.02.2011
8/10
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I purchased a couple of these drives to replace lower capacity SATA-2 drives in my system. I am using them in a softRAID 0+1 array, and I have had some challenges with my add-on SATA RAID controller failing to maintain connection with the drives. I have found the performance and thermal profile quite reasonable for 5900 RPM drives. The cache performs well for small to medium files, and the write configuration is outstanding in both the striped and mirrored configurations. The drives are a little noisier than I had hoped, but no worse than typical. Overall, I find these drives to provide good capacity and performance at an excellent price. I would not recommend if the primary intended usage is Swap disk, CAD usage or DVD playback, but for any other usage, I think they are more than adequate.
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25.01.2010
4/10
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The Seagate Barracuda Model ST32000542AS LP SATA 3 GB/s 2TB Hard Drive bare drive reviewed here seemed to be an excellent choice as it had low initial cost per GB for 2TB HDD size... But it depends on the reliability of this drive...Here are my experiences...When I first installed the drive in my Dell XPS Desktop it worked like a champ for 24hrs and I wrote the review promptly and shared my opinions on Amazon and at that time I did not hear any clicking noises as everyone seems to be complaining about, I thought I must be the lucky one!, But, I was wrong!Now ever so often I hear a loud "CLICK" and the access to the drive pauses for a while and continues thereafter. Looks that it is just matter of time when the drive will fail eventually. IMHO, Dell XPS desktops have very good BTX cabinet with good cooling and good power supplies, I doubt power supply is an issue as I have not overloaded it. The Seagate HDD Application tool currently does not find any defect with the drive.The drive runs cool but clicks at random and during that time the access to the drive is hampered, the application freezes for fraction of second and resumes, I feel it could be some thermal re-calibration issue in the drive or Firmware bug in this model?I checked Seagate website but did not find any new firmware posted for this model of drive. I will keep a close eye on this drive and I will update my review if any situation changes.PROS:[+] Large 2TB capacity for the price[+] 32MB of Cache[+] Good Read/Write Speeds even at 5900RPM spindle speeds[+] Silent drive (When not clicking) with very low power consumption runs cooler than other drivesCONS:[-] No screws or SATA cables provided (Bare Drive)Till we understand clearly what is the issue for the premature failures of Seagate 2TB drives I would consider these following alternativesHitachi 2 TB Deskstar SATA 7200 RPM 32 MB Cache Internal Hard Drive HD32000 IDK/7K - Retail (Runs Slightly hotter than ST32000542AS)Here are some lower capacity drives but very good ones!Samsung 1.5 TB SATA 5400 RPM Hard DriveSamsung 1 TB Spinpoint 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.5 inch Bulk/OEM Desktop Hard Drive HD103SJ
Скроменый эксперт
06.12.2010
2/10
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Hopefully you guys do more research than I did when I bought one of these with my NAS. I chose it because of its low power consumption...it's the lowest, 0 watts because it died after a couple of months.After reading online I found out that these Seagates are plagued by the "click of death" problem where some critical sectors can't load. If the heads that contain the firmware info can't be loaded, the HDD is bricked -- no recovery options, no reformat ability, ship it back to Seagate and hope you had your important data elsewhere (on a non-Seagate drive).My NAS performs SMART checks every week to determine HDD health and emails me the results. I was using this one night, and it was dead the next morning. No problem in the SMART checks; they conveniently can't catch the click of death before OR after it happened.This is garbage; you get a 3-year warranty and some people have worse experiences than I do. I'll swallow the higher power consumption and stick with a Hitachi. Google "Seagate LP click of death" and find out for yourself...
Скроменый эксперт
07.07.2011
8/10
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i've owned two of these drives for about a year now. So far they have been very reliable although i do occasionally hear a loud click from the one i just bought a few months ago but i have nothing bad to say of the older one. If anything happens i know the warranty should cover it.
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05.11.2010
10/10
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I bought two of these for my 2nd gen Drobo after one of the 750GB drives in my system failed. I tried to install the first drive, but it was not recognized by the Drobo. This necessitated a reboot of the Drobo (and the server attached to it via Firewire, for good measure), at which time the new drive was recognized.After the rebuild with the first new drive was complete, I replaced a second, functional, 750GB drive with my second 2TB Barracuda; the Drobo recognized the drive immediately, without a reboot, this time.If you are using these drives in a Drobo that has never had drives of this capacity in them before, you too may have to reboot your Drobo in order to get the new drive recognized.Both of these new drives have been working in the system for over a month now, and have performed without issue. I have not noticed any abnormally loud sound levels from these drives, but it should be noted that the ambient sound level in my study is slightly higher than normal home office environments.These drives are also running 6-10° F cooler than the older 750GB Seagate Barracudas in the same Drobo.
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27.06.2011
10/10
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Purchased back in November of 2010 to add storage to a Synology NAS set up, 10 bays of total storage. Bought two of these when the price dipped to $70 each. Been working flawlessly since installation in sometime near the end of 2010. Use them for a home media server.
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18.12.2010
2/10
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I'm using some of these drives in a ReadyNas Duo. For some reason they are still shipping drives with CC34 firmware. Recommendation is to upgrade to CC35 to deal with some reliability and noise (clicking) issues. So I try to update to CC35 using Seatools but that doesn't work because for some reason the serial numbers don't match the list of upgradeable drives. Turns out it's a well known problem and there are ways around it (just Google). So the drives seem to work fine but one of them is clicking all the of the time. Amazon is good enough to replace it for me but the new drive takes the NAS out of commission (and yes it shipped with CC34 firmware). An unreliable drive is a nightmare - you can't trust your data to it and in the event it needs to be returned you need to spend anywhere from 9 hours to 3 days (yes I'm not kidding) wiping a drive so that you can safely return it.Just say no to Seagate.
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28.01.2010
8/10
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I've owned about two dozen Seagate drives in the past decade, a few from the Barracuda line, and have had zero problem with them. (The pair of workhorse drives in my Dell desktop are still working strong!)The Barracuda LP is a line of low-power 3.5-inch drives spinning at the odd speed of 5,900RPM, which is 8.5% more than a 5,400RPM drive but still 18% slower than a 7,200RPM desktop drive. This 2TB model makes for the lower speed vis-a-vis 7,200RPM drives by including a 32MB cache, which really helps with sequential reads and writes, as evidenced when I transfer large files. When transfering small files and deleting files in Vista, this really underperforms a 7,200RPM drive that has 16MB of cache (no surprise there) but is noticeably faster than a 5,400RPM drive with 32MB of cache.The low power feature means this drive is best either as a secondary drive inside your desktop chassis, or in an external enclosure. The drive's interface is SATA 3Gb/s, or 300MB/s (due to encoding, 10 bits, not 8, make up 1 byte in a hard drive). So you can use an enclosure that supports USB, eSata or Firewire ports and maximize the throughput. Previously I had an old 250GB Seagate in my cheapo enclosure from a now-defunct company and it always became really hot after just 5 minutes of use; with the LP drive, it always stays cool, attesting to the importance of low power, even at the slight sacrifice of speed.One thing I didn't like about the drive packaging is it didn't come with a cable, which would have cost Seagate a few cents to make in China but would have saved the customer some hassle. But then, I got the drive free from Amazon's Vine program, so maybe the regular retail version comes with a cable.I don't work for Seagate or its affiliates. I've always trusted my Seagate drives and they've never let me down. I find it interesting so many people trash an iconic American company like Seagate. Maybe it's a sign of the times, when just about everyone dislikes America.
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17.02.2010
10/10
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I hate to give this 5 stars after using it for only a few days, but that is my job as a Vine reviewer. I will update this review if I have any trouble.As a computer technician, I know what I'm doing with this hard drive, but in case you are in the market for this massive-sized drive, here are some helpful tips, I hope:1. All hard drive manufacturers do not tell the truth on their size. After formatting to NTFS in Windows XP, it is 2,000,396,288,000 bytes. Since bytes are not a base of 10, the calculation is not like metric distance, so it is actually 1.81 terabytes. This is not a strike against Seagate, since everyone does it, but it you have 2TB of data, it won't fit here.2. If you want to replace your hard drive with this one, make sure that you have an SATA drive. By looking into your computer, make sure the hard drive does NOT have wide ribbon cable and white power connector. SATA are small black connectors both for power and data.3. If you want to add this as a second hard drive in your computer, make sure there is a place to mount it (and the hardware to do it), a spot on the motherboard for another SATA device and make sure to buy a cable to get power (if there isn't one available) and to attach it to the SATA connector.4. The drive comes unformatted, so you must format it so that it works for your operating system. In Windows XP, right-click on My Computer, click Manage; choose Disk Management. Find the 2TB (1863.01GB) drive, right-click on it and choose to Initialize disk (it may automatically bring up a wizard). After that, right-click on the unallocated space and choose New Partition. In my case I made it an active partition and formatted it as NTFS, which took hours. Next time I do this, I will double-check my clarity, or comment for corrections or with Vista/Win7 directions.
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27.04.2011
10/10
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I bought two of them to be installed in a D-Link DNS-321 not realizing that I would have to use Linux ext2 or ext3. After installing ext2, it was more difficult to accomplish my purpose, so I reformatted the drives (in external drive housings) to NTFS. They've been working and working well ever since.
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26.09.2010
10/10
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I bought this drive for my media NAS build using unRAID. So far, it has performed flawlessly. It is actually very quiet, which was a pleasant surprise given some of the negative reviews. I have it in my living room while I build and test my NAS, and I can barely hear it from a foot away. I do have it in a rubber mounted drive bay, so that probably helps.What I'm particularly happy with is the low temps. It runs about 5C lower than any of the other drives in the system, including some Western Digital Caviar Green drives, which I would consider to be its direct competition. The WD greens run louder and hotter than the Seagate, and according to specs probably draw more power at idle. The Seagate draws more under load, but I'm willing to make that trade for the slight improvement in transfer speeds. But since most drives sit idle for most of the time, it makes sense to me to have it as efficient as possible at idle.This drive is definitely meant for media use, and probably shouldn't be considered as a primary system drive.
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21.01.2011
2/10
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We purchase so many of these drives, our accounting department lost track.Many - and I mean Many! have gone bad. We installed 2 of them on one of ouroffice systems and both went dead after 4 months. Overall, about 120 wentto the click of death nightmare for many customers. Seagate was NOThelpful on returning these little monsters - so we dumped Seagate, Permanently.We only sell Hitachi and Samsung Hard drives (we do not sell WD due tothere special "i am designed to work exclusively on windows 7 Operating systems").We purchased our last Seagate order on July 2010. Never again.Daniel James Tyler (The WJ Group)
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22.12.2009
10/10
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Well after the disaster with my 1.5TB Seagate i.e. noisy, clicking sounds, unexplained stuttering, etc. this one seems to be working fine so far.Actually, I got this drive since my 2TB Western Digital failed and WD took way to long to replace it. So I saw the low price per megabyte for this drive and wondered to myself if it was too good to be true and if I should take a chance given the problems with my 1.5TB Seagate and quality problems Seagate seems to be having of late. Anyways, I took a chance and so far I don't regret it since I've had this drive for over a month now and it's working great. First thing I noticed is that it's noticeably faster than my 2TB WD so the increase from 5200 to 5900rpm must make a difference.HDTune shows 91.6 MB/sec average speed with the Seagate vs 83.2 MB/sec for the WD. With the WD I'd notice slowdowns every now and then especially when it got full but not with the Seagate. Secondly, what's even better is that is seems to do this while staying as quiet and cool as the Western Digital 2TB. No noise noticeable so I don't know if the noise mentioned by other is a manufacturing defect or what? Finally, no signs of corruption so far as with the WD so that is good. I'm currently using Bitlocker encryption on the drive and that's a sure and quick way to tell if you getting bad clusters on the drive.So to sum it up this drive so far stands up to the Seagate drives of old that were known to be fast, reliable and just worked. Well only thing now is to see if lasts longer than my WD 2TB drive did and you'll all be the first to know if I also gotta RMA this drive.I can't find any reason to knock off any stars so far since I got it for really cheap and it's doing everything it promised so far. Only thing I could even think of complaining is that it takes forever to format and that it only shows up as 1.81TB in Windows (shows up as a full 2TB in Snow Leopard macosx though) but that's a problem with Microsoft and not Seagate.
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23.01.2011
4/10
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Oh my, what can I say. Seagate dropped the ball AGAIN. The drive worked for approx 3 weeks, then my father said his media center was unusable -- would stutter during playback or almost lock up -- all the time. In Windows 7 Resource Monitor, it was showing Response Time of 1500 to 7500 ms for files on this drive. This number should be 15 ms or so. That is literally up to 7.5 seconds for the drive to respond to a request.We updated the drive firmware to CC35 (update available on Seagate website), and now the drive appears to be working normally. How does something like this make it to the field?
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28.05.2011
10/10
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Lots of cheap, reliable storage. After several Hitachi Deathstar drives died, I switched to seagate and my problems went away. No complaints. It's quiet and works great.
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20.02.2011
10/10
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I bought this hard drive about 3 weeks ago for storage purposes. If you are concerned about how much noise this drives makes then there is nothing to worry about. The cooling fans of my pc make more noise than this drive, and if you are also worried about the temperatures that this drive normally runs at, mine is always in a range of 34-38 degrees. It runs pretty cool, and most importantly of all pretty damn silent. I would buy seagate drives over other brands any day at any time.
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