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05.08.2010
4/10
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- + Не сильно греется
Пониженное энергопотребление
Высокая скорость для LP / Green серии - - Покупал 4 шт. для установки в NAS Synology. После 1 месяца эксплуатации...
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15.08.2010
4/10
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- + Тихий
- - Греется
Стуки
Могу сказать что модель у Seagate не удалась.
Купил два таких, один уже SMART Error Reallocated_Sector_Ct = ~4000...
Купил два таких, один уже SMART Error Reallocated_Sector_Ct = ~4000...
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04.01.2011
8/10
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This is a review of the Seagate Barracuda LP 2 TB 5900RPM SATA 3 GB/s 32 MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Hard Drive ST32000542AS-Bare Drive.I purchased a handful of these for various purposes: to increase storage capacity in a few computers, to put in a D-Link DNS-343 NAS box, and to replace the existing drives on a Buffalo LinkStation Duo (2TB) NAS box. First thing I did was update the firmware to CC35 for these drives, and thankfully so because each of the drives were still running CC34. I used the bootable disk (available at Seagate.com), and unfortunately the updater rejected all of the drives. (Geek alert: "The existing CC34 components did not match what was called out in the update matrix in the configuration file.") So I just forced the update on the drives by using the bootable CD and going into the FreeDOS prompt. (There are a few extra steps that I had to perform, so just send me a note if you need assistance with this). After power cycling the drives after the update, the disks were ready to go.So, after updating, I ran a benchmark test on these drives.My computer has the following specs:Dell Precision 490, Quad-core Intel Xeon 5300, 4GB DDR2 fully buffered DIMM 667MHz ECC memory, Dual ATI FireGL V7200, WD Raptor 160 GB boot, WinXP Pro SP3I performed at least three tests to get an average value posted below:Using HD Tune,Average Read - 91.9 MB/sBurst Read - 166 MB/sAverage Write - 84.5 MB/sBurst Write - 159 MB/sTemp: 36-39 degrees C in operationUsing HD Tach...Average Read - 90.2 MB/sAverage Write - 72.8 MB/sI tested the read/write speed using actual data and while the drive was online (connected to internal SATA ports). I used folders with 20GB of 4GB video files from a Barracuda 7200.12 (also an internal SATA) to this drive, and I got an average read speed of 80 MB/s and write speed of 72.2 MB/s. I copied the same folder from the Seagate Barracuda LP to itself (simultaneous read/write operation), and the transfer rate was about 30 MB/s. Using smaller files (5GB of 3MB picture files), this Barracuda LP read at 72 MB/s and wrote at 46 MB/s. The simultaneous read/write operation here was again about 30 MB/s. Two things I was highly impressed with during these tests were that the drives ran cool and quiet. The operating temp was about 36oC (peaking at but not exceeding 39oC), and at 5900rpm was very quiet (compared to the Barracuda 7200), so I did not find any of these drives to be noisy. On my PC, the boot drive is noisier because it is a 10K rpm drive. On my Mac, it is not louder than the boot drive (WD Black 7200 rpm).Then, I tested offline speeds and mounted these drives into a D-Link DNS-343 NAS box set up for RAID 1. I hooked up the DNS-343 over a gigabit network and transferred data over SMB (I did not try FTP). In WinXP Pro, I clocked an average of 14 MB/s write and 24 MB/s read. In Mac OS X (Snow Leopard), I clocked 20 MB/s write and 30 MB/s read. So it seems capable of handling HD movies, and I verified this by watching an HD movie in full 1080p from the NAS box to my computer... worked without a hiccup.My only gripe is that Seagate knows the firmware updater does not work for all of these drives (especially those with serial numbers starting with 5XW). I drop half a star for this oversight by Seagate, so I round down to 4-stars.Overall, these drives are very nice drives for backups. For the price, (sub-70 each) these are excellent drives. Only time will tell how reliable they are. Highly Recommended. Will post updates.UPDATE 1 (Jan 12, 2011):I have these drives set up as RAID 1 in a DNS-343 NAS box. Two weeks later and over 1 TB of videos transferred onto them, these drives are holding up and working very well. I will try it set it up as RAID 5 in the near future.*UPDATE 2 (Jan 17, 2011)I am playing with 4 of these drives in a D-Link DNS-343 in RAID1 and RAID5 array. RAID1 works very well, and has been quite stable, and the read/write speeds of large files are consistent with first tests. With a PC, I get about 14 MB/s write and 24 MB/s read. With a Mac, I get 20 MB/s write and over 30 MB/s read. RAID5 was very problematic at first. The volume kept degrading every day, but only when I try to access it while it has been hibernating. With a few tweaks of the settings, the kinks were smoothed out and I have been able to run it for almost a week with no problems. I have been transferring various files onto it, from personal documents, picture files (over 300 GB of pictures), and video files (over 1TB of various video files). RAID5 transfer rate has been pretty consistent with large files: about 10 MB/s write and 30 MB/s read speeds. I will run a few more tests on these drives while it is in RAID5. Having said that, I will be switching back to RAID1 because something is out of sync between the NAS and these drives and I am just not comfortable with these drives with RAID5. Stay tuned.UPDATE 3 (Jan 24, 2011)These drives mostly worked in a RAID5 array for the
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30.12.2010
8/10
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December 30,2010:So I couldn't resist buying these at the $59 dollar price, lets hope that I don't lose all my data now.I bought 4 of them, and all of them had labels saying China, all of them firmware CC34. I was worried about the firmware part because everything seemed to say that those were the "bad" batch.So I put each one in one at a time, forced an firmware upgrade (because it wouldn't upgrade otherwise) to firmware CC35 (had to set my bios to "IDE mode" so the firmware program could see them in DOS mode after booting from the Seagate disc I made from their ISO image on their web site), then set my bios back to AHCI mode, and plugged them all in.Booted into my 32-bit Windows XP Pro setup, went to "Disk Management" and activated each one, set them as dynamic disks, and created a large RAID-5 software array with default sector size and quick-formatted it NTFS (my XP Pro has 3 files relating to disk management hacked so that the Server 2003 elements inside them are active, therefore letting me create and use software RAID-5 arrays in XP Pro).After about 3 hours the quick-format finished, then the 5.5 TB RAID-5 drive started "Regenerating", this took about 50 hours. I used quick-format because I didn't want to wait 50-hours for the full-format and then 50 more hours for the regeneration, and I figured the regeneration would be doing basically the same sort of full disk scan I wanted from a full-format anyway.So now I had one huge 5.5 TB NTFS drive, so I started coping my data back onto it. It appears to be transferring at about 40mb a second, but I think it is more like 20mb or 30mb. I knew that they were not going to be speed demons because of the 5900 rpms, and the fact I set them to 1.5 instead of 3.0 for the SATA speed (I did this because it seemed to be a factor in some of the failure rates. No real evidence for this, I just care more about reliability and less about speed.) and software RAID-5 arrays are sloooow, but can be moved easily to different hardware. My old 4x1TB WD drives copied off at about 80mb a second (I can't remember what they wrote at.)I have so far transferred about 2 TB of data back onto the array, and I hear no clicks, and they have been writing to their platters continuously for about 7 days straight at this point. I have about 2 TB to go (my wife is prolific at taking pictures and videos with her SLR) until I'm done (I am guesstimating about 3 more days).Things I did to try to ensure no failures:Forced the upgrade to CC35 one at a time.Put the drives in 1.5 SATA mode instead of 3.0Told the bios to not ever let the drives spin down or sleep. (my 4 WD 1TBs had been spinning continuously for 3 years straight with no issues)Told Windows not ever let the drives spin down or sleep. (see WD comment above)Didn't format or write ANY data to the drives until AFTER the firmware updates.Kept the drives in the same orientation (horizontal) from beginning to end (ie. didn't format them in the vertical position then start copying data to them while laying horizontal or vise-versa).I tried to modify the TLER/ERC/CCTL but was unable to find anyway to make the changes permanent or survive a reboot, so I left them alone. Same with the APM and sound management settings.I will report back after a few months or so and post how they are doing. I hope I will still be happy then.UPDATE: 2nd week in.Up and running for 2 weeks straight, spinning 24/7 and being written to at least 12 hours a day and read from for at least 8 hours from 2 different computers at the same time every day, I have transferred over 3TB to them, no issues or strange noises, no disk errors in the log, and no spontaneous array "Regenerating".I think the reason I have no issues with running them in a RAID 5 array when others do is that my array is software based and not bios or card based. It's slower, but as long as I can read at 12MB a second, I'll be happy. Currently I get about 80MB a second read rates.UPDATE: 1 month in.All 4 running in a software RAID-5, running continuously with no spin-down and no sleeping, writing about 3 gigs a day, reading about 15 gigs, all of them still running fine, no errors, no strange noises.UPDATE: May 1 2011 about 6 months in.Well 1 finally died, and they all have been running for 132 days continuously and only been powered on/off 15 times (per SMART data on the drive). The remaining 3 seem to be ok for now. I replaced it with the newer model ST2000DL003, also a Seagate, we'll see how it goes. I also gave up on using Windows Software based Raid5, and switched to Ubuntu Linux, I did this because of the lack of tools/commands/control Windows has over Raid5 arrays. Regeneration takes a lot less time now, and I can "expand/grow" the array easily now without having to erase it and transfer it all back. Plus Linux has a lot more tools for manipulating the array.UPDATE: March 28 2012 almost a year and a half in.Well another one died (only two of the four originals still working now).So today I cam
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17.02.2013
6/10
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Плохо
I had Seagate send me a replacement drive for my ST31000520AS because the S.M.A.R.T was reporting failure after just under 3 years. There were no signs of failure aside from S.M.A.R.T reporting. Data still read and wrote fine, but I was tired of the S.M.A.R.T report, so I sent it back. The replacement drive Seagate sent me died in a week, it had no symptoms nor warnings, it simply crashed dead. The drive still spins up, but will not be recognized by Bios, it also does not allow the PC to boot. I must disconnect the drive in order for it to boot (from another drive of course)All my data is lost, I could chance it at this point and replace the PCB myself in attempt to recover the data for about $50USD, or I could RMA it again, but honestly I'm tired of it. I'm going to buy a different brand, like Western Digital, and hope that they put more effort into the quality of their products.Manufacturers seem to cut too many corners and make things junk these days, older products, whether computer or otherwise, last much longer. It might also be because Seagate sent me a refurbished drive instead of a new drive, which is kind of sloppy to be honest but I think all hard drive manufacturers do this. They may save a buck cutting corners, but they lose a customer.
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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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05.02.2010
6/10
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Плохо
This is an extensive review that compares this Seagate 2 TB Hard Drive with many other hard drives that I have owned. I do own this Seagate Hard Drive. I also present insight into the performance of this Hard Drive compared to what else is available.For the last 5 years, I've purchased only Western Digital brand hard drives. I've owned 2 WD Passport external hard drives (750 GB 3.5" & 320 GB 2.5"), 3 1TB Caviar Green drives, 1 1TB Caviar Black drive, 2 1.5TB Caviar Green drives (64 MB cache & 32 MB cache versions), and 1 320 GB WD drive. All of these have worked or still are working flawlessly. I have not experienced a single drive failure or overheating problem. I have run these drives in an LG NAS Blu-ray unit, a desktop, and as external storage for 2 laptops, and even a DVD player with USB. I am overjoyed with Western Digital hard drives and do not plan on using other brands.5 years ago, I owned a Seagate Hard Drive that failed the week after the limited 90 day warranty ended. I lost all of my data and was offered no compassion from Seagate. I had to junk the drive. Luckily I had a stack of DVDs backing up about 90% of my files. So my past experience with Seagate is not very positive, but I will give this drive a non-bias review.I always recommend using additional methods of data back-up for irreplaceable files, storing the back-ups in different physical locations (office, home, parents' house, etc). I have recently invested in a Blu-ray Recorder as prices for BD-R discs have dropped to about $0.10 per GB - comparable to Hard Drive storage prices at the time of writing this review. At 25GB per Blu-ray disc, this is an ideal media for storing back-up files off site - very easy to transport or ship.I was given this Seagate 2 TB Hard Drive and thought that a review would be helpful because of my extensive experience with other hard drives.1) 2 TB data. Great storage size. Not much to say here. Price per GB is comparable to other brands.2) 32 MB cache size. This is the standard cache size at the time of writing this review. However recently a 64 MB cache size has been released. For about the same price per GB of this Seagate drive, I purchased a WD 1.5TB with 64 MB cache size (bought on sale). I recommend a higher cache size because it allows for faster data transfer speed.3) 5900 RPM disc spin. Non-"eco" hard drives spin at 7200 RPM for significantly faster data transfer rates. 5900 RPM does reduce heat and energy consumption and is acceptable for hard drives that are used to store files, and not to run software. Seagate gets a positive review for a relatively fast "eco" spin rate - faster than the traditional 5400 RPM. However Western Digital has been using a variable spin rate of 5400-7200 RPM in their Caviar Green drives for over 2 years. "Better late than never" is a good slogan for this Seagate drive.4) Reported high failure rate of this drive. My own Seagate 2 TB drive is running without problems as an eSATA connected external HDD. However this HDD has been plagued with reviewers experiencing disc failure - with approximately 30% of reviewers reporting drive failure. Compare this to Western Digital drives that show about 1-2% drive failures from Amazon.com reviewers. 30% is far too high. Maybe Seagate needs to modify their hardware or perhaps Amazon's "frustration free packaging" is at fault. Either way, a failure rate this high must be taken seriously by Seagate and buyers.5) Loud noise for an "eco" hard drive. Eco drives are designed to run on low power with a lower noise compared to faster spinning hard drives. Compared to my Wester Digital drives, which I cannot even hear spin in my NAS unit, this Seagate is louder. Not louder than a standard 7200 RPM drive, but louder than comparable eco-drives that spin around 5400 RPM.My personal conclusion is that this hard drive is just a run-of-the-mill hard drive that has started out on the wrong foot. High failure rates, average performance scores, and nothing to set it apart from the competition. Personally, I have been overjoyed with the performance of my Wester Digital hard drives. This Seagate has given me nothing to get excited about. So I will continue to be faithful to Western Digital and recommend WD until my own experience convinces me otherwise.
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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.
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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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Великолепно
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.
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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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05.01.2011
4/10
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Just adding my voice to others who noted that:a) It would be a cool idea to create a RAID5 array of cheap, low power, high-capacity drives like these. After all, the "I" does stand for "Inexpensive".andb) The Seagate Barracuda ST32000542AS is definitely NOT the way to go about it.I tried using four of these to put together a cheap, quiet, and reliable home network storage device. Granted, there were signs in these reviews that it was a bad idea, and even Seagate says its a bad idea, but I thought that with a brand new micro-ATX motherboard, processor, memory, and the current Ubuntu 10.10 OS, I'd have a reasonable shot at it. What an incredible waste of time!It is possible to build the array and start it. However, it will tend to fall apart quickly when data is written to it. Usually I'd lose two drives at a time, destroying all the data in the process.That lent some credence to Seagate's assertions that the drives should work for RAID 0 or RAID 1. I decided to try RAID 10, and got a little further with that, but it did still fall apart after the first day. Given that result I would be a bit dubious about trying these drives in any RAID configuration.I'm really pleased with Amazon and am really glad that they'll take the drives back. Unfortunately my next best bet, the Samsung HD204UI, isn't available directly from Amazon as I write this. I got four elsewhere, upgraded their firmware, too, and am having no trouble at all with them on the same machine. They do appear to be just a smidge slower, as their lower RPM would imply, but in a RAID5 array they provide plenty of throughput and they operate with a little less noise.Why did Seagate build such large capacity drives in a way that they can't be used in the most-safe RAID configurations? It seems a little irresponsible.
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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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