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Скроменый эксперт
21.09.2010
4/10
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I bought two of these drives for using in a RAID 1 array in a Synology DS210j Network Attached Storage (NAS) device. After 6 weeks of operation, one of the drives failed.When the drive went bad, I contacted Synology and told them the errors the NAS was sending me. It indicated the Reallocated Sector Count showed a failing drive and their take on the drive was that it was failing. At any rate, the NAS won't mount the volume.The drive has a 3 year warranty, and the failed drive was well within that time period. Seagate insists that you download their diagnostic software to test the drive prior to returning, as they claim a high return rate of good drives. I am sure that is true, but the diagnostic software can only be run on a DOS/Windows system. Since the NAS runs Linux, the diagnostic software obviously won't run on it. Otherwise, all I have is a laptop, so how do I connect an internal 3.5" drive to it?They do allow you to return a drive without running the diagnostic utility, but if they determine the drive is good, you have to pay for the return shipping. Also, you have to package the drive to their specifications, so don't throw the shipping box away when you buy the drive. Unfortunately I threw my box out, so I had to find an anti-static bag and some foam shipping material to send the drive in.I returned the drive to Seagate, and in a week or two, I got a replacement drive. I was a bit peeved that the drive was refurbished rather than a new drive. It was only 6 weeks old! I should have been given a new replacement. If the drive was a year old, then OK, send me a refurbished drive. But at 6 weeks, the drive was clearly a factory defect, and I should have been given a new one.Since they do not reimburse you for shipping the drive to the repair facility, I see it as I ended up paying more money than I should have, and I ended up with a used drive. It cost $12 to ship the drive via UPS to Texas, which was about 20% of the cost of the drive.I gave this product 2 stars because of the drive failure, and the exchange for a refurbished drive rather than a new one (at 6 weeks after purchase).
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11.10.2011
10/10
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I have twenty (20) of these drives and yet any one of them to fail over the years.Use it for video capture and eding, backup of the same, run it sometimes all day and night as removable drive(s).I fill these drives up fast with video footage and never had a single problem with this model (...528)but not sure about the ...524 model.I bought the earliest drives when it became available and still functionning.Can not tolerate any failure in my business of video recording to drives.Not sure why so many people seems to have problem with the drives. I use a Windows XP machine with 32 bit and 3Ghz processor, with 2GB memory, Dual core CPU.Maybe Windows-7 or vista has some issues, I don't know. Sometime you can't take these complaints seriously, some people don't know what they're doing :)
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29.09.2010
2/10
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I bought this drive based on great reviews from Maximum PC Magazine. It raved on and on about this drive. I have always been a Western Digital Fan from way back but I wanted a 1 TB drive and since my favorite magazine gave this drive top billing I thought I tried it out.BIG MISTAKE!!!!!!First the drive arrived in a simple box and Dead On Arrival (DOA).Since it took me over 30 to install this drive (I was busy) I had to deal with Seagate. Now are you ready for this?Seagate demands that when you return their drives back to them you must pack them in a specific box with the right type of foam made specifically for the transport of hard drives. My beef is this. If Seagate is so demanding about how we return their drives to them why don't they sell their drives with the same care they demand from us? Oh and by the way, try finding this type of box or foam. Good luck! You can find them online but it'll cost you the same as the drive.Luckily I had a box and foam from another drive that I was able to use.There's another method you can use. For $21+ they will send you a brand new drive in a prepaid box that you can return to them. You then have 25 days in which to send them back the drive or they will charge you credit card with the price of the drive. So much for the money you saved on the drive.Ok so I received my new drive and it worked great. That was back in November 2009. It ran well for 10 months. Today I just filled the request to once again return it because it failed the smart test upon boot up. I ran the Seagate Tools test and it failed all kinds of tests. Lucky for me that I have backed up this drive into another drive (Western Digital).My advice is to stay away from Seagate. I've only had one problem with Western Digital and their return policy is way better than Seagate's.I already bought a Western Digital 2 TB from Amazon to replace this Seagate Drive. When I receive the new Seagate Drive I will sell it on ebay. So if you're looking for a new 1Tb Seagate Drive on the cheap look to ebay or Amazon I don't know which yet.
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02.03.2012
10/10
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I am a very avid gamer and media nut. I've used this hard drive every day (being turned on and off multiple times per day) without any problems whatsoever. I waited to review the product because I read of so many failures shortly after purchase. I am happy to give this 5stars.
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15.06.2011
2/10
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Purchased on Amazon from Source Media Group and I am extremely dissappointed with this vendor (no place to leave feedback, so I am doing it here). I have used these drives in the past so my complaint isn't specific to the product as i am happy with it and sorry that these drives are now hard to find. I purchased (2) drives from Source Media Group . They arrived timely and were packaged well. Unfortunately after completing the install into my NAS (which took a long time for reasons to become apparent in a second) I check out the stats on the specific drives sold to me and noticed that they were "used" drives and contained many errors. I'll spare you all of the stats, but one drive had been Powered On 282 Times and Used for 69.42 DAYS and the second drive had been Powered On only 29 Times but USED FOR 765.375 DAYS. I find this completely unacceptable and feel sorry for those happy customers heading for a big surprise when their drives crash early only to assume that their specific drive is defective or just made poorly. So again, NON TECHIE BEWARE of SOURCE MEDIA GROUP sales on Amazon...
Скроменый эксперт
18.02.2012
8/10
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With the floods and the shortages in the thailand hard drives are not cheap right now.I still needed one so I bought this at full price....... Whatever.Pros: 1tb of memory.... quiet nice to have as a back upCons: Paid full price.
Скроменый эксперт
29.11.2011
2/10
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My Seagate Lemon came in a HPE-250f from HP with a Core i7 package. It lasted about a month....just long enough to get all my data & programs loaded into the "Seagate Trap". After the usual 2 hour long back and forth with the HP Rep. from some other world, he agreed to send another drive....which was a Hitachi brand. Now a year later, I'm faced with the same dilema, but this time I was smart enough to have an external HD backup drive.
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27.02.2012
10/10
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Delivered as promised! Seems to be working fine - replaced old hard drive on Server for our company - no problems so far!
Скроменый эксперт
16.03.2011
6/10
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Плохо
I was looking for two 1.5TB drives to put in a NAS and setup in a RAID1 array. I decided to go with Seagate (again) because of their 5-year warranty; I mean, if you can warranty your product for 5 years, then supposedly it should be good, right? Wrong! The first issue I had with these drives is that they would just appear to die when trying to write or read large files to/from them. Turned out this was a firmware issue. Really?! I can understand upgrading the firmware in a Wireless Router, or a NAS, but a hard drive?! I know it's not unheard of, but it's verrrry rare and a pain the you-know-what! Anyways, they both worked perfectly after upgrading the firmware... They actually got SOMETHING right! heheIt has now been just over two years that I've been using these drives and one of them has already started to fail... This seems to be typical of Seagate drives. I've had it happen before, and now it's happening again! I would RMA it, but I'm not in the US so the cost of shipping it back to Seagate is almost the same as buying a new drive. I think the reason for this is that Seagate drives in general tend to run quite hot. These drives are 7200 RPM so you can expect them to get warm, but they get HOT!I think this time I'll go with Samsung's 2TB drives. I've read some good reviews on them.
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01.01.2012
8/10
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Ordered this over a year ago during Amazon's Black Friday deals for $30 and she's still humming along just fine.I'm not super into speed or anything. I just needed extra space, I needed it cheap and I needed it quickly.This item delivered.
Скроменый эксперт
04.12.2011
6/10
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Плохо
These drives have a very high failure rate. I built a server for work using 45 of these in a single 4U server with plenty of cooling and i have already had 6 of them fail in the last year. If i didnt already have 45 of these, i would go with a different model drive!
Скроменый эксперт
22.02.2010
2/10
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I had 3 of these disks on a Windows 7 System setup in a Dynamic Spanned configuration before I started to have problems. I wasn't running anything to watch the disk because I didn't realize they would start failing so quickly. 2 of the 3 disks run very hot, 40-48C moving them around doesn't change this. My WD 1.5 tb disks run around 30C in the same locations. One SG disk had 422 relocated blocks at this point. My disk monitor is predicting this disk will die in 60 hours but Windows 7 just lists it as healthy. The volume has gone offline on me twice and it took me a while to figure out which disk was failing since I couldn't get much information from Windows 7. In fact it looked like one of the other ones was failing from what I could see so get some sort of disk monitor, even if it's just a freebee anything will save you a lot of time and trouble. It took me over 14 hours to run a chkdsk on the volume under Windows 7 and the first time it died and took the volume offline. With Spinrite(level 2) I could run the disks one at a time in about 4 hours and it told me everything about the drives. All 3 SG disks produce millions of ECC errors when I check them with Spinrite 6. None of my WD 1.5 tb disks produce more then a few hundred ECC errors under the same tests. All 3 of these SG disks produce a lot of seek errors and reformatting them doesn't seem to lower anything. Until I put up some disk monitor software I wasn't aware of the large differences between the SG an WD disks. I'm using all of mine for media storage and I don't care that much about speed, but the SG disks are faster then the WD(Green) disks I am using. I had picked the SG's because I got a deal, but it looks like maybe I didn't. The SG's have had a lot of problems and the ones I have are -202's which are suppose to have all the problems solved. I thought I had tested all of these disks well enough before I put them into service as they were not showing any problems until about a week ago, of course by then they had been in my media server for 3 weeks. There doesn't seem to be anyway to remove a disk from a dynamic volume set so I suggest you use at least Raid5 if your going to use these disks. I don't mind loosing my data as I have it all backed up but it's a pain to have to restore 3.5 tb's no matter how you look at it. I had planned on getting 8 of these but I think I will stop at 3 and move to as none of my WD's have given me any problems and the disks seem to work fine even mixed with the working SG.
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16.06.2010
2/10
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YET ANOTHER UPDATE:EXCELLENT CUSTOMER SERVICE. Seagate called me today. They're swapping out my 1.5 TB drives for new 2GB Constellations on an advanced replacement basis. All I have to pay is shipping! The Constellations are Enterprise class (ES) drives that run about $300 a pop (here on Amazon - retail's higher).Seagate's my new favorite company, they've got a customer for life.UPDATE - PROBLEM IDENTITIED:Since I wrote the review below, I've had 2 more 1.5 TB drives fail. I called Seagate to try to resolve the issue, and was told (by 3 different people in 2 different departments) that these drives are NOT RELIABLE in RAID configurations.According to Seagate, they market them as 'desktop' drives which means they are designed to be used for a few hours a day rather than continuously. Apparently they're fine for non-RAID use (one person told me they work OK for RAID-0 and RAID-1, although I'm not sure how that would be different from RAID-5).This may explain the number of problems that some people (like me) have with these drives while they work perfectly fine for others. I wish I had known this before I bought the drives to begin with.==================================Over the last 2+ decades I've owned hundreds of hard drives. I can say with certainty that the Seagate 1.5 TB drive is the worst of the lot, and not by a little.At the moment, I've got 22 drives in service. 12 of them are Seagate 1 TB enterprise (ES) drives. 6 of them are WD 160 MB drives. 4 of them are Seagate 1.5 TB drives. Over the last six months I've had 7 drive failures. 5 of them have been Seagate 1.5 TB drives (the other two were ancient WD-160's). You read that right - 5 failures in a pool of 4 drives.These are not heat or power related failures. The servers run behind a high-end power conditioning UPS and are well ventilated; the drives are barely warm to the touch when I swap them out.I wouldn't recommend these drives to my worst enemy.Just to be clear, my problem is specifically with the Seagate 1.5 TB drives. Their 1 TB drives seem to be very reliable.
Скроменый эксперт
20.12.2010
8/10
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When I first got this and installed it in my PC case, it made sounds like someone inside was on a typewriter. This started after I got Windows installed -- probably about 20 minutes into the life of the HDD. I interpreted this as the dreaded "click of death" I've read about but thankfully have never experienced. I got an RMA, took it out the of the PC case and to the post office to figure out the cheapest way to return ship it. When I got it back home I realized I hadn't erased it so I quickly hooked it up to another PC to wipe it, just leaving it to lie outside the case. Surprisingly, it was silent. I ran SeaTools and HD Tune Pro on the drive and didn't get any errors. The drive came back perfect.So, I am now thinking what I thought was a bad HDD was probably just the mounting in the case somehow? Anyway, it seems to be fine now. I don't trust it to be an OS drive so I'll probably put it in an enclosure to be used as a media backup drive.I can't say I've ever had this experience with a HDD. I don't really know what to make of it.-- UPDATE 5/26/2011 --This drive is still going strong in another case as a back-up drive. I have had no errors or problems with it. I've since tried other hard drives in the enclosure this drive was in and those drives do not make the same noises. It's still a mystery why this particular drive rattled/vibrated in that case while others do not.
Скроменый эксперт
24.04.2011
2/10
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My drive went out within warranty and i had to talk to a manager just to get them to agree to replace it cus i got it on here and not directly through them, then they wanna send me a refurbished drive and i say no, i bough t a new one and it broke i want another new one, cus thats what i paid for.. they say yes then no then yes then no it was so rediculous very long story short took them about 4 months for me to receive the replacement they promised me.. totally ridiculous and they tried to get out of it a few times too.. It would take a few pages for me to tell you how bad my experience was and exactly why.. I will never buy Seagate again because if something does go wrong they don't want to help even after they say they will they just tried to jerk me around until I give up, and i didnt but it did cost me four months of not having a backup hard drive when i needed one and hours on the phone with them... Absolutely Terrible Service!!!
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25.11.2011
8/10
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Bought as replacement for dead imac drive. Works fine. But you will need to get a software fix for out of control fan speeds if replacing the original drive. (firmware issue)
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28.11.2011
10/10
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Good product and had no trouble with it what-so-ever. I've had this hard drive for about a year now, and it is still running as good as the day I ordered it.
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18.03.2011
8/10
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This drive is quite fast (SATA II). I have had good luck with Seagate drives though this one is being used to replace another Seagate drive (only 18 moths old). The old drive did not actually fail... it just got warnings on two different hard drive tests. I think that the old drive may have been the victim of excessive heat. The problem might have been related to the old hard drive not getting a full format by the PC manufacturer (the drive came with a custom built PC). I always do a full format on new drives, thus the fact that this new drive had never been formatted (part of "bare") was not a problem.Have only had the new Seagate 1.5 TB drive for a few weeks but have had no problems with speed or data loss. It has required no maintenance, including defragmenting, and I use the drive for video work (tough on fragmentation); full size/length videos, not just internet publications.I would recommend this drive at this point... will update after I have been using this hard drive for awhile.
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19.03.2011
10/10
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When the hard drive stopped working in my parents' Dell XPS 420, I wanted to find a relatively low-cost replacement to get them back up and running. This Seagate Barracuda was an upgrade in pretty much every way (320gb to 500gb, 5400rpm to 7200rpm). Thanks to the way Dell has set up their cases (a great improvement over previous-generation Dells, which were almost inaccessible), it was a breeze to get this baby in and up and running. I had the hard drive in the case and ready to install Windows in just a few minutes.The hard drive is relatively quiet (though not completely silent), and it has plenty of space for anything my parents need to use it for. It's only been in use for a few weeks, so I can't comment on the longevity of this product, but from all appearances it should hold up fine. I've purchased Seagate products in the past with no problems.If you're in the market for a replacement hard drive, for the price you'd be foolish not to consider the Seagate Barracuda line.
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19.02.2011
10/10
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I own several Seagate drives, from 7200.9 through the latest 7200.12, in 40GB to 1TB sizes (the 7200.12 is 1TB). I recently swapped out one of my HTPC 160GB drives for the 1TB Barracuda (just for capacity, not because it failed). The drive is dedicated to my HTPC's DVR/PVR app (SnapStream's BeyondTV) which I use on a daily basis.Why am I telling you all this? Because my HTPC records and plays multiple (and often simultaneous) high-definition feeds (yep, all the way up to 1080i) onto or from this 1TB Barracuda, and it has never failed (nor, for that matter, have any of my previous Seagate drives used for the same purpose).So it's fast enough to keep up with 3 simultaneous HD streams (2 recording, 1 playback), and super quiet. Well I do hear it spin up from dormant mode, but after that I can't hear it (the motherboard fan in my chassis is louder! I temporarily shut down the fan and couldn't hear the 1TB drive!).The drive has been running day in day out for about 3 months now, and based on this and my experience with the other drives, it seems it's got a long ways to go!
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01.01.2011
8/10
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Received the all four disks within 5 days using the no cost shipping, very nice. Plugged 4 drives into my TR8M Sans Digtal storage, intialized as as GPT (GUID) type via windows disk manager. Created parity raid 5 partition via San Digital and got a single 4 terabyte partion using windows disk manager to format. No problem with about 4 minutes taken between install and quick format to complete. Windows Vista 32 bits running AHCI, Intel q9450, 2 gigs memory, Gigabye x48-DQ6 with San Digital TR8M eSata external storage.I did read about others having problems with same drive with previous BIOS level. My disks were all the latest version of disk firmware (CC1H) and have no problems using my San Digital RAID 5 setup. I have already loaded up about 2 terabytes of the 4 terabytes available (1 drive for parity) using raid 5 with no problems. Drives just as fast as my older and smaller 7200 RPM drives from seagate in RAID mode. To date the drives are problem free, noiseless and very engery efficient during operation and boot. I monitor the San Digial storage via KillaWatt. No spikes at boot and very low watts (about 20-30 watts) per hour for the 8 drive San Digital box with 4 of 8 drives being the newer 1.5 terabyes type.
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31.12.2010
10/10
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I bought this HDD when it was on sale for $45 so it was definitely worth the money. However, even at $66 (what it's going for at the time I'm writing this) I would still recommend buying this drive.I read these reviews before purchasing, so the very first thing I did after I installed the drive was update the firmware. It was a relatively painless process that took only a few minutes and worked great. Just make sure you follow the directions that are posted on the Seagate website. I have another Seagate hard drive installed on the same computer before buying this one, and thought that maybe it would cause problems with the firmware upgrade because it automatically detects your Seagate hard drive and does it all automatically. I didn't want the wrong hard drive to get the upgrade if it wasn't compatible, or ignore the new hard drive, etc.. but there were no problems. It detects which hard drive(s) is/are compatible and upgrades the firmware accordingly.I have had absolutely no problems with this drive since I've had it and considering how easy upgrading the firmware was, I've given this product a five star review. It's pretty fast, very quiet, and has plenty of space. Now only if the SSD's were this affordable...
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17.03.2011
10/10
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This device freed up my computer to run faster. I moved all my windows folders to this data drive and in the process emptied about 1/2 the space on the C: drive. This has resulted in much faster performance on my primary drive. This drive holds a lot of data and can be a good backup to your primary drive. Simply backup windows to this drive and if your primary crashes then you can restore the backup. It installed quickly but took almost 4 hours to do a full format on the drive. It is not a fast access drive but is great for saving pictures, documents, and videos. I have also put most of my games on this drive also. When asked where to install the game you simply change the C: in the path to whatever letter is being used for this drive. In my case "C:/program files/GameX/" becomes "E:/program files/GameX/". If your system has the proper amount of RAM then this process will start the games a little slower, but improve overall PC performance.
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09.02.2011
10/10
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Received drive and allowed to warm up indoors for 7 hours before installing...realized I have no SATA power connectors on my ancient powersupply...however I have another burnt out supply lying around. Soldering gun and electrical tape fixed that problem.Drive booted normally. No problems after installing windows and 40GB of games. Have no clue about firmware updates, planning on checking that out soon. I will update this review then.Update: My drive came with CC46 firmware installed which is the newest version.About the packaging: Yes, it was awful. Same padding on top, just 2 layers of cardboard between bottom of drive and the ground. The antistatic bag didn't look creased in any of the contact locations so I am going for the glass half full "UPS didn't bang my package around", even if it comes back to bite me.Replaced an ATA133 80 GB 5400RPM. Faster, quieter, cooler. A+++ if reliability holds out.Update 2/27/11 - Still working great after almost 3 weeks of being left on continuously. If it was going to die....it probably would have. I got a good one :D
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