Bigger hard drives are a bargain now. Don't get one that is huge or you will lose a lot like I did when my WD 500 gigger lost it's file system after a BSOD shutdown.My other seagate is only 80 gigs and going strong after 3 years. I have three hard drives in my pooter, one pata and two sata's.
Спектроник-6KNNA
18.01.2010
2/10
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Purchased some of these drives for a RAID, and half were DOA. Seagate's drives seem to have taken a nosedive in reliability recently. This is, of course anecdotal, and may not be cause and effect, but it seems that since much of the production was shifted from Thailand and Singapore to China, the drives are not reliable. I have been using Seagate drives for more than two decades, and have had great success until the last few years. Maybe it's a coincidence, but the only Seagate drives I've had fail were the ones purchased in the last couple of years, and all were produced in China. It has been more than a few, now. Half of the examples of this model I purchased were DOA- one, for example, spun up, but was unformattable. Drive failed the Seatools tests and reported a huge number of unrepairable bad sectors. If you can't count on HDs to be reliable, how can you function (computer-wise, of course)? Of course, I back up redundantly and in real-time, but who wants to go messing around having to constantly restore data? Also, Amazon's "Frustration-Free Packaging" is a little on the skimpy side as far as protection goes.
Небулоид-2PTCS
14.09.2010
10/10
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I'm a graphic designer who uses this drive to store not only Photoshop files, images and other materials, but have also taken advantage of the extra space to house my music, web scripts and more. The drive works great on my older model Dell 8300 running an older PATA drive. I highly recommend it.
Лунатик-1QHBF
15.10.2010
10/10
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Bought one of these drives last year for my media center pc. Planning on buying several more in the near future for a raid array. No problems so far for the drive, and it's an amazing value.
ОмниКод-8KTFC
24.10.2010
10/10
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Drive has been going strong for 6 months without a single hiccup. Fantastic speeds, no noise, and a painless install. Looking forward to getting another soon.
Вектрон-6JEIQ
26.10.2010
10/10
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Great product, easy to install and set-up in Window 7. No brainer for computer geeks these days. The drive is fast and has great capacity.
Кронос-2EBOG
20.04.2010
8/10
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This is a serial drive, so if you have an older computer you will need to buy a parallel to SATA adapter in the form of a cable or converter hardrive connector. As others said the packaging could be better, there was really very little packing to minimize vibration during shipping. Luckily the hardrive worked. Very quiet and smooth operating unit. You can tell that Seagate and other long time hardrive makers really have made great improvements. The big problem in getting it to work is that you have to get it formatted for your operating system to work (Windows 7). It would be nice for them to give you a piece of paper showing you where to get support, especially to have it setup for NT format. I finally got it done but it took a lot of "fooling" around to get everything running.
Кронос-1HBGB
15.10.2010
10/10
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i've always been a fan of seagate drives so its a no brainer for me but make sure you know which version drives your getting. i haven't had any issue with these drives.
Астрономад-9TFYO
10.10.2010
8/10
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So far so good. Using it as a media drive for music and video and haven't seen any drop in playback speed compared to when media was on a much smaller drive (~80GB).
Нейрон-0PTLO
13.10.2010
10/10
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Great Drive, for a great price. I am part of Seagates newletter and outlet center, this was just as great a deal as it was on the Outlet center! Thanks!
ХроноГость-2CKRY
17.07.2010
10/10
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I got this hard drive cause i was running out of space. Now I have plenty to put all my photos and videos. Hope it last long. Seems to be good so far so good. Noise level is low. Speed is fast. My C drive was running at 25% free space. So my pc was running slow. I got this drive and moved all my big files over to it so I can free up some space on C drive. Cleaned C drive, Defrag it and it's running fast again. I love it. I highly recommend it.
Плазмоид-3VQFK
08.07.2010
10/10
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I purchased this drive to replace one that failed in a 5 year old Dell 4700. It was a easy to install and reload the operating system, all the user accounts and all of the software I wanted. Luckily I had been automatically backing up all data files so I was then able to quickly put all use files back in place. Reloading the OS and needed applications got rid of accumulated junk so at the end of the day the computer ran faster than pre-crash.Great price, great product.
Фотон-3EXPB
14.10.2010
10/10
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Positive: The device works very fine. It is a noiseless hard disk drive. No overheating problems.Negative: Any.
Зета-Орион-2AXBE
28.08.2010
8/10
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The drive came as advertised, in about the time frame it was supposed to come. It worked right out of the box and I was able to get my wife's computer set up with the new drive the same day. So far it's working out great, and she has lots of free space on her drive now.
Спектр-0PWQO
09.09.2010
10/10
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Received item on time and in perfect condition. Didn't realize that data cable wasn't included in new computer, so had to purchase separately. Easy to install and get up and running. Would buy from this seller anytime.Thanks
Астрономад-3EZKK
28.08.2010
8/10
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This is nice hard drive...it works as it says...not problem in installing...computer detects is like 1..2..3...format as NTFS or any format...works..writing speed is good...does not make too much noise for me..overall...it's good hard drive..and price is good too..
НеоВояжер-0PPLI
04.12.2009
8/10
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I very much like this drive. It is fast, quiet, and has had a very good history in our raid servers. HOWEVER, ordering this drive from Amazon was sadly a mistake. Three drives were ordered last week and when they arrived our IT department was blown away at the lack of packaging. Three drives were placed in a large box free to slosh, clank, and bang into each other. The only padding that was included was air filled bags. The drives, of course, failed every test our raids put on them just to initialize them. Our Raid server immediately upon installing the drives notified us that all three drives were experiencing extreme data loss and should be replaced as soon as possible.Love the drives and love Amazon but I have to suggest ordering them from any other vendor until Amazon realizes that "approved" packaging is not 3 small drives placed into a 14" x 10" box to slosh around. Those that are experiencing problems or those that are thinking about ordering - look at the packaging when it arrives and save yourselves headaches and return the drives if they are not adequately packed! Nobody likes installing hours of software just to have a drive die 6 months later.- Bri
Пандорец-4UOSY
16.08.2010
10/10
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I used this drive along with an eSATA external enclosure to expand the storage on my Cable Company DVR. Seems to be working great and has increased the storage space of the DVR 10-fold. The drive has all the necessary specs to fill any sort of storage needs with extremely fast data streaming.
Вояджер-7VDJK
16.02.2010
10/10
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I bought two of these drives for my HP MediaSmart Home Server model EX495. Packaging and shipping were excellent. These drives appear to be the exact model currently shipped with the HP MediaSmart EX495 Home Server. HP EX495 1.5TB Mediasmart Home Server ( Black) Both installed in about a minute without a hitch. I added them to the server storage pool with one click in the MediaSmart configuration application, and they have been running quietly and reliably ever since. By the way, I bought the server here, as well. Best prices I could find anywhere on both the server and drives, online or brick-and-mortar. I've had better luck lately with the Seagate brand than with Western Digital. Also note that you must use the 7200 RPM drives with the HP MediaSmart EX495. Slower drives may be a little bit cheaper/larger, but, unlike these drives, they are not recommended by HP for use in the MediaSmart server.
Кронос-4CJGY
25.07.2010
10/10
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I used this SATA hard drive as a second internal mass storage device. It was a matter of connecting it to the motherboard with a SATA data cable, connecting the power source and a single BIOS setting change to make it visible in Windows Explorer. Formatting this drive made it ready for anything. I am very happy with this purchase. File size is not a problem anymore.
Эксопилот-0KTPS
16.08.2010
4/10
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I ordered 2 of this from Amazon. Put them into NAS (DNS-323) and configure as RAID-1. Worked in a couple of days, and then NAS kept saying my RAID-1 is degraded. Pull the both out of NAS, and use Seagate tool to test. One of them failed SMART test.Return and refund is under way.
ТерраБот-2ZZSH
03.07.2010
10/10
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I have 2 of these (one for over a year, the other for over 6 months), and have had no problems with them. I bought them when they were $100, and now they keep going down in price. I'm tempted to get another (I do video editing so I use a lot of space). They aren't the fastest around, but I have no problems with them. If you want to spend more money on a faster drive, be my guest, but this works perfectly for me and all my data.
НаноПилигрим-2IVRI
06.10.2010
2/10
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This thing gets 1 star across the board for being the first every HDD I've received DOA. Never again.
Сириус-7XBTA
20.05.2010
10/10
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Loud?? The complainers must have really sensitive ears, this is the quietest drive I've ever owned. I can't tell it's accessing data unless I look at the flashing light on the outside of my case. The drive installed flawlessly. The drive is a real fast one, too, it's noticably faster than any I've used in the past. Basically, you expect a hard drive to perform right out of the box, and this one does! I've had issues in the past with reliability when using WD drives but I dig the Seagate products, never had a crash or a performance or installation problem. Love it!!
Фотон-6LISF
24.07.2010
4/10
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Ordered 5 of these for our external RAID5 enclosure, but continued to get error messages and RAID crashes. Took them out and used a couple of these 1.5 TB drives in my Mac and they work fine. I then purchased Seagate 1 TB drives for our RAID and haven't had a problem. Seems like the 1.5 is okay for computers, but not for external RAID boxes.
НаноПилигрим-5FIHU
18.06.2010
2/10
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Seagate quality control failed me. The 1.5TB hard drive I ordered through amazon.com arrived DOA. It will not power up. I have ordered Seagate hard drives in the past from amazon.com without any quality issues. Seagate quality control should be adequate to prevent dead drives from being shipped to customers. Has anyone purchased Western Digital hard drives recently? I purchased Western Digital drives in the 1990's and was happy with their products at that time.
Астрономад-6MAHD
13.06.2010
2/10
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I bought this HD after I checked some previous reviews about this product so I took the decision to get it. The first week I got my first drive I started having problems with it because sometimes it was not recognized by the Bios and sometimes it was. One week after it never came up. I delivered the defective one and one I got the replacement it worked fine for 1 year. Now it is not recognized either by the seatools for Windows software or the Bios. I have to send it back again.
Лунатик-6ZESL
10.09.2010
8/10
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It's everything I expected for the price. It is slower than I thought but that could also be my internet provider. Storage capacity is great and the processor is very quite.
Астрон-8SOCH
30.05.2010
8/10
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We purchased over 20 of these drives a few months ago. Of the 20only 1 went "bad". Good speed. Reliability is iffy at most with somany bad reviews about it. We believe buyers will spend time writinga bad review because they DID GET a bad product.Which leads us to believe that Seagate, which has been a great companyfor producing Hard Disks in the past, hired a double agent from WesternDigital a couple of years ago unknownly, and now WD is rising, andSeagate falling...Think about it Seagate.Danxo (The Walter Judson Group)
Плазмонавт-5WXUD
12.09.2010
8/10
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Not much to say here other than getting a great product by seagate. Always reliable.Now, if only I could get this much storage at this price for an SSD! :-)
Нейрон-1BDEQ
06.12.2009
4/10
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I purchased three of these drives. I was hesitant after the problems with version 11 but after reading a review on how fast there drives were and reading that the version 12 drives were fixed I went ahead. I set up two drives in a RAID 1 and used the third drive as my boot drive. Within 24 hours my PC was slowing down and during boot I was getting a "RAID degraded message". Then the clicking started. I isolated the clicking drive by pulling the power from the drives one by one. It was one of the RAID drives. I sent it back to Amazon and received a new drive. I installed the new drive, the RAID rebuilt itself. Less than 24 hours later my system started to slow and the clicking started again. This time it was the Boot Drive. Same process, returned the drive, got a new drive and installed the drive. Less than 24 hours later the new boot drive started clicking and freezing my system. 3 of 3 is a 100% failure rate. In fact Amazon has chosen to not replace my drive, they will only provide a refund. How can a company like Seagate have such poor quality control. I love the performance of the drives but........
НаноРейдер-8XFYQ
06.12.2009
10/10
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I installed this as a second drive in my desktop computer and have been satisfied with the performance. I would rate it as very quiet. If I listen closely I can tell that it is running, but that is about all. The only sound that is really noticeable is when it auto-parks after it has been idle for a while, and when it restarts when I access it. I actually enjoy hearing the "snap-snap" sound that occurs when the two drives auto-park in sequence when the computer goes to sleep -- I guess I am just easily entertained!One caution: this is an OEM package, so don't forget to order a SATA cable and the appropriate (very short) 6-32 screws to go with it, as there is nothing in the package except the drive itself. I was able to find "retail package" drives locally, which include the SATA cable in the box (don't know if it includes screws), but they were all the 7000.11 version, not the 12th generation drive like this one. The 7000.12 is supposed to be quite a bit lower in power consumption, and based on the wattage readout on my UPS I can confirm that this drive adds very little load to the power supply.
Пандорец-0RARS
25.03.2010
2/10
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I purchase 4 of these drives over the period of a month. They all have under 100 hrs of use and only one is still operational with substantial errors and warnings from the S.M.A.R.T diagnostics on the drive. Working with the vendor is a challenge, they would like you to run their diagnostics but on dead drives nothing happens and getting to support without that is a challenge, still trying. Apart from that, the drive sounded like a great solution for storage but given the failure rate, I'm not happy or would NOT recommend them. At least if support was accessible, then you could work with that. Some of folks complained here about packaging, in my case the boxes arrived in very good conditions and the drives were well protected.
ТехноНаблюдатель-1IOFZ
14.01.2010
4/10
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I ordered this on a gold box deal for $92. What a steal! You do always pay for what you get, because I have returned not one but TWO, and still do not have a functioning drive. After requesting a replacement for the second drive, Amazon sent me an emailing stating that they will just refund my money rather than replace another drive.I read the reviews, and checked for a firmware update before attempting anything else. Both came with updated firmware. I tried nearly everything to try to get both drives to work, using all of Seagate's available tools after Windows could not format. However, I quickly discovered multiple bad sectors on both drives. The first drive couldn't even pass the Seagate DOS short test!If you can get a drive that works, then maybe you're just lucky. I should have listened to the reviews, but I thought that it was impossible that so many drives were truly DOA. Having experienced first-hand, I know now that this may just be a faulty design.
ТехноНаблюдатель-5DDSM
22.07.2010
8/10
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Although the first disk drive I received didn't work, Amazon quickly replaced it (UPS picked it up at my house), and the second drive is working great. It's nice to have a company that responds quickly to issues. I actually received my replacement drive around the same time UPS picked up my first drive that had issues.
Пульсар-6VTQS
26.04.2010
2/10
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I ordered four Seagate 500 GB hard drives for my computer now, and out of those four, three have failed. The first failed instantly, the second failed a couple months later, and now my third hard drive is failing about half a year after use.I'm surprised that my fourth hard drive is doing as well as it has after seeing the others fail so quickly. This is totally unacceptable. Three fourths of my hard drives failing within less than a year? I have computers that are 25 years old that still work great. These are bad hard drives.And if you are wondering, my hard drives are all placed properly and are not over-heating.
Кронос-5QOQC
09.05.2010
10/10
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I won't go into the finer points of how speeds and write/read rates acted on this machine.I will simply state that it worked right out of the box in my external dock i picked up off of amazon. No fuss. No issues. I plugged it in, formated it and have not looked back since.I initially had it written in FAT32 but reformated into NTFS -- so i have 1 format (quick) and about 200GB of written data to it with no issues.Speed is good over USB 2.0 being streamed to my media center extender across the network.Overall, for an inexpensive mass storage solution this works.
Интеллектор-1YVRZ
16.08.2010
8/10
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I bought this disk to replace a hitachi I had. I don't have any complaints over the speed, but the disk is much noisier than the disk I had before. I am not saying it is annoyingly noisy, just noisier than the hitachi.
Интеллектор-0BNKE
20.05.2010
6/10
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The video streaming with the Seagate Barracuda 7200 1.5 TB 7200RPM is quite good... quite what I expected it to do. It streamed in a 1080p HD video without a pause. I can also stream videos from my Windows 7 desktop into the TV with the media extender. Plus there is the 32 MB cache. I have configured my ST31500341AS to RAID-1.When I start up this internal hard drive up it is noisy. It also moves away from the RAID configuration and this can be frustrating at times! On the whole I felt it was a fair buy.
Синтрон-1GURR
20.07.2010
2/10
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This was a Seagate hard drive put in an defectively designed cardboard box without a plastic clam shell. The result was ZERO padding for the hard drive during shipment. I repeat ZERO padding. If Amazon is shipping hard drives like this, it's like purchasing a time bomb for your data.
Пандорец-0NQNF
30.01.2009
6/10
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Well, I went into this purchase with my eyes wide open, having read several reviews here and elsewhere with purchasers recounting problems with this particular drive stalling, almost always associated with RAID arrays.Those reviews also included several more technically minded people who had tracked down a firmware update (mine took version SD1A) for the drive that apparently resolves most or all of the problems others have had.I downloaded the firmware before the drive arrived.Then, when the drive was delivered, I read the firmware version printed on the label on the drive, noticing that it was indeed one of the revisions that had the bug mentioned above.I installed the drive, turned on the computer, then - before the bootup started - changed my BIOS settings to set the SATA controller to IDE mode, disabling all other hard drives, then set it to boot to floppy.I then inserted a bootable floppy with the firmware updater on it, rebooted, then waited for my system to boot to the floppy.Then, I executed the required command from the command line to start the firmware update, then waited for approximately one minute for it to complete, which it did, indicating no problems.I ejected the floppy, rebooted, reset the BIOS settings to recognize all drives again, exited the BIOS, then allowed the system to boot normally.I partitioned the new drive under Linux at its full size, made the files ystem (it should come as no surprise that a 1.5TB drive would take some time making the file system that big!), then migrated my data over from my existing 500GB Maxtor drive.Well, there has not been even a hint of trouble after what has now been nearly a month of intensive usage, having moved well above the drive's full capacity worth of data.This huge drive appears to be speedy and reliable after all.If I really thought I needed more than the 2+TB worth of space I now have, I would not hesitate to buy another.Who knows, my small drive (200GB) is about five years old, and it may give up the ghost, in which case I will grab another Seagate 1.5TB, although there will probably be a drive of 2TB or larger by that time.
Сириус-4IWTI
23.07.2010
10/10
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This hard drive has been great from the day I got it. I'm using it is an HP Mediasmart Server and I've had no issues at all. The drive is plenty quiet and noticeably faster than my 5200 RPM drive. Great hard drive and I'll buy another when they are on sale again.
Сатурниан-8RRHU
12.11.2009
6/10
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I've recently become concerned about Seagate hard disk reliability and build qualityA 1TB model failed in less than 1 yearthe drive started having booting issues and then made horriblemetal on metal sounds, and would start.. (head crash)A Win7 upgrade went poorly using this 1.5T drive, \file system was corrupted some how, and check disk wouldn't complete.also reviews at newegg and other online sites confirmed similar reliability issues by other seagate custmersa recent purchase of HP business desktops,revealed a warning about SeaGate firmwareneeding an update.or drives would unexpectedly fail to boot.i was forced to reformat the drive for safety and do a fresh Win7 installand reinstall all my apps; 2 days of unnecessary work.i purchased WD 2.0 Terrabyte as my primary drive, and forced the SeaGate to service as atemporary backup drive. i have USB/Firewire MyBook drives as primary backup systems.overall, I was quite fond of SeaGate until i experienced these problemsI'm going to move to WD as my primary hard drive, and wouldn't recommend using thisdrive as a primary boot device until some evidence of improvement occurs...
НеоВояжер-8YYXK
24.07.2010
10/10
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The drive is nice at 1.5 TB The things screams. I also was able to adapt the SATA drive to meet my PATA needs. I have two MAC OWC external housing units and they are PATA/IDE. The problem is i can only use 1 SATA drive since I cannot have Master and Slave.
Супернова-4PART
10.08.2010
8/10
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The drive has been working fine for three weeks straight. I haven't installed it and am using it as an external USB drive. It's much slower as a USB drive so I can't comment on the SATA speeds yet.
ХроноГость-2KEPF
02.09.2010
10/10
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What everyone wants in a hard drive. A big 1 TB drive, a fast 7200 RPM's, and less than $69. You can't beat this.
Странник-5WTTO
07.03.2010
2/10
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I bought two of these to install in a RAID configuration. When I loaded Windows XP, the OS didn't recognize the array and the software packaged with the drives wouldn't run because it said there wasn't a seagate or maxtor drive installed in my system. I bought the extra software from Acronis, but it still didn't recognize the new array. One of the drives in the old array (the maxtor) failed while I was using the Acronis software to copy an image to my external backup array. Finally, I was able to get the new array to work by using the utilities from a Western Digital drive (the one that survived the backup operation) that I installed two years ago. I'm going to buy western digital drives exclusively from now on.
Аэронавт-9RYRG
04.08.2010
10/10
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When I purchased the 500GB hardrive it already had the latest firmware. Absolutely no problems whatsoever. The drive is as fast as you would expect and doesnt make any clicking noises. Great buy!
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