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Сатурниан-0QLTZ
17.04.2011
10/10
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I purchased a Seagate Barracuda LP 2TB drive (ST32000542AS) as a bare drive to replace a failed (2-year old) OEM Seagate drive in my HP EX 487 MediaSmart Server . The drive arrived very well packaged from Amazon, and it was a very simple operation to swap it into the HP server drive sled and plug it in. The "restore" operation was a bit slow (especially over a wireless connection), but I was delighted to find that we had lost NO data (due to drive mirroring). I would heartily recommend this very-large-capacity drive to other MediaSmart Server users as a simple plug-and-play upgrade. Think about it: 2TB of storage for under $100... and if you're not replacing a failed disk, this can go straight into an open bay for full mirroring of your digital data and memories. Great deal for some peace of mind.
ХроноГость-8JVRV
02.11.2010
10/10
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We wanted to replace our old four servers with a new and very fast machine, so we bought different parts in order to build a system custom built by ourselves.This disks are way silent than the previous generation, a little more reliable and quite less power consuming than 7200rpm disks. We bought 18, two arrays of 8 disks plus 2 spare disks. That system contains all our services: general accounting, general payments, payroll, etc., all the financial stuff; plus file server, and the most important, several centralized databases that are heavily requested from our customers and our own engineers.All is smooth, we only have performed scheduled maintenance, and no problems after several months of uninterrupted operation, at a fraction of the price that local dealer charged us. We were a little concerned that 5900rpm disks would perform much slowly than 7200, but we could take it, since there were no 2GB 7200 disks at the time we bought these. Well, performance stays well over our own expectations, is more than enough for all our needs (we are 130 users, about 100 of them engineers, and more than 30 outside users, our customers).Is not a server grade disks, but it's cheap and more than enough reliable for us.Ah!, Seagate does not say this, but I can confirm that these disks are absolutely hot-swap capable when used with the proper caddy.Totally recommended.
Зета-Орион-5GTLU
21.09.2011
10/10
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I had an old dell, purchased some RAM from crucial and this hard drive to make it 1 more year and soo far soo good. I really enjoy using it to hold music, movies, documents, etc etc. So far I have no complaints.
Квазар-2ZPHZ
23.05.2011
2/10
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I thought all seagate drives came with a five year warranty, but it turns out you can buy cheap ones or more expensive ones and effectively prepay for the warranty. I use a lot of drives and generally have drives last in the 5 year range, and so I often return drives within the 5 year warranty period, so these drives (that came with a 3 year warranty, 6 months already expired) were not acceptable to me, and I returned them and paid $30 more to get drives with a 5 year warranty.I'm still a Seagate fan (the 2TB problem they had for a while seems to be gone), but I just check the warranties more carefully now.
Гравитон-5KRCU
03.12.2010
2/10
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I'm a frequent buyer at Amazon. Though I bought more than 100 items from Amazon, this is just my 2nd review. My first review was for my MacBook Pro sleeve. And, here is my 2nd review.I wrote my first review because I just loved it that I thought I should support the product. Now, in this case, the disappointment-to-the-core caused me to write this really-bad review for Seagate. I mentioned this so that you can understand how utterly disappointed I was with these Seagate hard drives.I bought 2 of these hard drives for my Synology DS410. And, with in one month of usage, the first drive broke. It was completely unusable and I lost all of my precious data [some of my fine collection gathered over more than a decade] stored in it. I'm still cursing Seagate for this.I was planning to set up a remote backup for my NAS knowing that any hard drive will not survive for long. But, I didnt expect that it would happen in less than a month and that too from someone called "Seagate".I returned both my drives back to Amazon and planning to go with Hitachi this time. I hope Hitachi doesn't disappoint me.I DO NOT RECOMMENT THESE HARD DRIVES AT ANY COST. TO THAT POINT, ANY PRODUCT FROM SEAGATE.
Супернова-9LEJT
17.01.2011
8/10
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I bought 4 of these during the black Friday sale 70usd a piece. A little research before buying suggested a firmware upgrade would fix the Click of death problem that many people complained about. Its been a month but the Click still happens even though I updated the firmware but only on spin up. Read and write speeds are no where near what I expected it to be in a 0+1 RAID setup. Spin-up takes forever. I made the mistake of installing Warcraft 3 on that RAID setup and I could not host an online game (everyone would say I lagged out). I did try a RAID 5 before going doing 0+1 and it would constantly drop one of the 4 drives. What these drives do, they do well and that is provide cheap and plentiful storage. If you are buying them for something else, they will fail miserably. I don't think anyone has gotten RAID 5 working with these drives other than a pure software mode such as inside Windows server or Linux. 2TB of storage is plenty to loose so at least run a RAID 1 since these are so cheap.
Альфа-Юнит-5HKOC
18.02.2010
6/10
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I've been using Seagate hard drives for the past 15 years, and have generally had very good luck with them. I am currently using a Seagate 80GB drive that is over five years old, and it still functions flawlessly.I was in need of more storage, and a 2TB drive certainly fits the bill. Despite some of the horror stories I've read about this particular drive, I was eager to try it for myself. Here is what I can tell you from my experiences thus far:PROS:- Relatively quiet; it's not silent, but it isn't any louder than my other hard drives;- Runs three to four degrees cooler than my other hard drives;- Enormous amount of storage space at a very good price;- Performance isn't dramatically different than my 7200 RPM drives.CONS:- I've already begun to occasionally hear the ominous sound known as the "click of death." The drive diagnostic software (S.M.A.R.T.) doesn't reveal any problems, but I will be testing it frequently to see if anything crops up.- Amazon went way too far in their efforts to make the packaging "frustration-free." My drive arrived in a large box with only three small air pillows for protection, and all three air pillows were deflated! In other words, the drive had no protection whatsoever. If you are seriously interested in buying one of these drives, you may wish to search Amazon and see if there is a regular (non-frustration-free) version that you can buy. I'd rather deal with some packaging frustration than end up with a drive that was destroyed in transit.The vast majority of hard drives perform very well when they're brand new, but reliability/longevity is something that takes time to determine. I will update this review as time goes by, to let you know how the drive is doing.- - -Update, February 21, 2010: After a week of light usage, the infamous "click of death" sounds have become more frequent, and some of the files on the drive seem to have become corrupt. Not a good sign. I'll update the review again if things get worse.- - -Update, March 9, 2010: The "click of death" noises are continuing to increase in frequency. At this point, I don't dare to use the drive for anything important.
ИнфраГость-3VYVH
17.04.2011
8/10
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I bought 6 total of these drives. Within the first 30 days one drive failed with SMART errors. This was no problem for me since I was using it in a RAID 6 volume. Amazon was great at sending me out a new drive in 2 days. I have since re-optimized my RAID array and no more SMART errors for now. I had never had a drive fail so quickly, and I was fortunate to have a method to recover the failed drive. 2TB is a lot to lose if a total data failure occurs. Overall, I would still buy again. One bad drive out of six is not too bad, and who's to say maybe the drive sustained damage in shipping. I give the benefit of the doubt to Seagate and Amazon on this one.
Астероид-4DBSM
21.02.2011
8/10
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I purchased a couple of these drives to replace lower capacity SATA-2 drives in my system. I am using them in a softRAID 0+1 array, and I have had some challenges with my add-on SATA RAID controller failing to maintain connection with the drives. I have found the performance and thermal profile quite reasonable for 5900 RPM drives. The cache performs well for small to medium files, and the write configuration is outstanding in both the striped and mirrored configurations. The drives are a little noisier than I had hoped, but no worse than typical. Overall, I find these drives to provide good capacity and performance at an excellent price. I would not recommend if the primary intended usage is Swap disk, CAD usage or DVD playback, but for any other usage, I think they are more than adequate.
Спектр-7DAKJ
25.01.2010
4/10
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The Seagate Barracuda Model ST32000542AS LP SATA 3 GB/s 2TB Hard Drive bare drive reviewed here seemed to be an excellent choice as it had low initial cost per GB for 2TB HDD size... But it depends on the reliability of this drive...Here are my experiences...When I first installed the drive in my Dell XPS Desktop it worked like a champ for 24hrs and I wrote the review promptly and shared my opinions on Amazon and at that time I did not hear any clicking noises as everyone seems to be complaining about, I thought I must be the lucky one!, But, I was wrong!Now ever so often I hear a loud "CLICK" and the access to the drive pauses for a while and continues thereafter. Looks that it is just matter of time when the drive will fail eventually. IMHO, Dell XPS desktops have very good BTX cabinet with good cooling and good power supplies, I doubt power supply is an issue as I have not overloaded it. The Seagate HDD Application tool currently does not find any defect with the drive.The drive runs cool but clicks at random and during that time the access to the drive is hampered, the application freezes for fraction of second and resumes, I feel it could be some thermal re-calibration issue in the drive or Firmware bug in this model?I checked Seagate website but did not find any new firmware posted for this model of drive. I will keep a close eye on this drive and I will update my review if any situation changes.PROS:[+] Large 2TB capacity for the price[+] 32MB of Cache[+] Good Read/Write Speeds even at 5900RPM spindle speeds[+] Silent drive (When not clicking) with very low power consumption runs cooler than other drivesCONS:[-] No screws or SATA cables provided (Bare Drive)Till we understand clearly what is the issue for the premature failures of Seagate 2TB drives I would consider these following alternativesHitachi 2 TB Deskstar SATA 7200 RPM 32 MB Cache Internal Hard Drive HD32000 IDK/7K - Retail (Runs Slightly hotter than ST32000542AS)Here are some lower capacity drives but very good ones!Samsung 1.5 TB SATA 5400 RPM Hard DriveSamsung 1 TB Spinpoint 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.5 inch Bulk/OEM Desktop Hard Drive HD103SJ
Кронос-8MRTR
06.12.2010
2/10
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Hopefully you guys do more research than I did when I bought one of these with my NAS. I chose it because of its low power consumption...it's the lowest, 0 watts because it died after a couple of months.After reading online I found out that these Seagates are plagued by the "click of death" problem where some critical sectors can't load. If the heads that contain the firmware info can't be loaded, the HDD is bricked -- no recovery options, no reformat ability, ship it back to Seagate and hope you had your important data elsewhere (on a non-Seagate drive).My NAS performs SMART checks every week to determine HDD health and emails me the results. I was using this one night, and it was dead the next morning. No problem in the SMART checks; they conveniently can't catch the click of death before OR after it happened.This is garbage; you get a 3-year warranty and some people have worse experiences than I do. I'll swallow the higher power consumption and stick with a Hitachi. Google "Seagate LP click of death" and find out for yourself...
Интеллектор-3YMJC
07.07.2011
8/10
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i've owned two of these drives for about a year now. So far they have been very reliable although i do occasionally hear a loud click from the one i just bought a few months ago but i have nothing bad to say of the older one. If anything happens i know the warranty should cover it.
Кварковец-6NOOJ
05.11.2010
10/10
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I bought two of these for my 2nd gen Drobo after one of the 750GB drives in my system failed. I tried to install the first drive, but it was not recognized by the Drobo. This necessitated a reboot of the Drobo (and the server attached to it via Firewire, for good measure), at which time the new drive was recognized.After the rebuild with the first new drive was complete, I replaced a second, functional, 750GB drive with my second 2TB Barracuda; the Drobo recognized the drive immediately, without a reboot, this time.If you are using these drives in a Drobo that has never had drives of this capacity in them before, you too may have to reboot your Drobo in order to get the new drive recognized.Both of these new drives have been working in the system for over a month now, and have performed without issue. I have not noticed any abnormally loud sound levels from these drives, but it should be noted that the ambient sound level in my study is slightly higher than normal home office environments.These drives are also running 6-10° F cooler than the older 750GB Seagate Barracudas in the same Drobo.
Вектрон-9JMZZ
27.06.2011
10/10
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Purchased back in November of 2010 to add storage to a Synology NAS set up, 10 bays of total storage. Bought two of these when the price dipped to $70 each. Been working flawlessly since installation in sometime near the end of 2010. Use them for a home media server.
Пульсар-2KIIM
18.12.2010
2/10
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I'm using some of these drives in a ReadyNas Duo. For some reason they are still shipping drives with CC34 firmware. Recommendation is to upgrade to CC35 to deal with some reliability and noise (clicking) issues. So I try to update to CC35 using Seatools but that doesn't work because for some reason the serial numbers don't match the list of upgradeable drives. Turns out it's a well known problem and there are ways around it (just Google). So the drives seem to work fine but one of them is clicking all the of the time. Amazon is good enough to replace it for me but the new drive takes the NAS out of commission (and yes it shipped with CC34 firmware). An unreliable drive is a nightmare - you can't trust your data to it and in the event it needs to be returned you need to spend anywhere from 9 hours to 3 days (yes I'm not kidding) wiping a drive so that you can safely return it.Just say no to Seagate.
Спектроник-4DQIE
28.01.2010
8/10
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I've owned about two dozen Seagate drives in the past decade, a few from the Barracuda line, and have had zero problem with them. (The pair of workhorse drives in my Dell desktop are still working strong!)The Barracuda LP is a line of low-power 3.5-inch drives spinning at the odd speed of 5,900RPM, which is 8.5% more than a 5,400RPM drive but still 18% slower than a 7,200RPM desktop drive. This 2TB model makes for the lower speed vis-a-vis 7,200RPM drives by including a 32MB cache, which really helps with sequential reads and writes, as evidenced when I transfer large files. When transfering small files and deleting files in Vista, this really underperforms a 7,200RPM drive that has 16MB of cache (no surprise there) but is noticeably faster than a 5,400RPM drive with 32MB of cache.The low power feature means this drive is best either as a secondary drive inside your desktop chassis, or in an external enclosure. The drive's interface is SATA 3Gb/s, or 300MB/s (due to encoding, 10 bits, not 8, make up 1 byte in a hard drive). So you can use an enclosure that supports USB, eSata or Firewire ports and maximize the throughput. Previously I had an old 250GB Seagate in my cheapo enclosure from a now-defunct company and it always became really hot after just 5 minutes of use; with the LP drive, it always stays cool, attesting to the importance of low power, even at the slight sacrifice of speed.One thing I didn't like about the drive packaging is it didn't come with a cable, which would have cost Seagate a few cents to make in China but would have saved the customer some hassle. But then, I got the drive free from Amazon's Vine program, so maybe the regular retail version comes with a cable.I don't work for Seagate or its affiliates. I've always trusted my Seagate drives and they've never let me down. I find it interesting so many people trash an iconic American company like Seagate. Maybe it's a sign of the times, when just about everyone dislikes America.
Зета-Орион-1PWXR
17.02.2010
10/10
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I hate to give this 5 stars after using it for only a few days, but that is my job as a Vine reviewer. I will update this review if I have any trouble.As a computer technician, I know what I'm doing with this hard drive, but in case you are in the market for this massive-sized drive, here are some helpful tips, I hope:1. All hard drive manufacturers do not tell the truth on their size. After formatting to NTFS in Windows XP, it is 2,000,396,288,000 bytes. Since bytes are not a base of 10, the calculation is not like metric distance, so it is actually 1.81 terabytes. This is not a strike against Seagate, since everyone does it, but it you have 2TB of data, it won't fit here.2. If you want to replace your hard drive with this one, make sure that you have an SATA drive. By looking into your computer, make sure the hard drive does NOT have wide ribbon cable and white power connector. SATA are small black connectors both for power and data.3. If you want to add this as a second hard drive in your computer, make sure there is a place to mount it (and the hardware to do it), a spot on the motherboard for another SATA device and make sure to buy a cable to get power (if there isn't one available) and to attach it to the SATA connector.4. The drive comes unformatted, so you must format it so that it works for your operating system. In Windows XP, right-click on My Computer, click Manage; choose Disk Management. Find the 2TB (1863.01GB) drive, right-click on it and choose to Initialize disk (it may automatically bring up a wizard). After that, right-click on the unallocated space and choose New Partition. In my case I made it an active partition and formatted it as NTFS, which took hours. Next time I do this, I will double-check my clarity, or comment for corrections or with Vista/Win7 directions.
Спектр-2PDZB
27.04.2011
10/10
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I bought two of them to be installed in a D-Link DNS-321 not realizing that I would have to use Linux ext2 or ext3. After installing ext2, it was more difficult to accomplish my purpose, so I reformatted the drives (in external drive housings) to NTFS. They've been working and working well ever since.
Пульсар-7DWAC
26.09.2010
10/10
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I bought this drive for my media NAS build using unRAID. So far, it has performed flawlessly. It is actually very quiet, which was a pleasant surprise given some of the negative reviews. I have it in my living room while I build and test my NAS, and I can barely hear it from a foot away. I do have it in a rubber mounted drive bay, so that probably helps.What I'm particularly happy with is the low temps. It runs about 5C lower than any of the other drives in the system, including some Western Digital Caviar Green drives, which I would consider to be its direct competition. The WD greens run louder and hotter than the Seagate, and according to specs probably draw more power at idle. The Seagate draws more under load, but I'm willing to make that trade for the slight improvement in transfer speeds. But since most drives sit idle for most of the time, it makes sense to me to have it as efficient as possible at idle.This drive is definitely meant for media use, and probably shouldn't be considered as a primary system drive.
Небулоид-8CBKW
21.01.2011
2/10
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We purchase so many of these drives, our accounting department lost track.Many - and I mean Many! have gone bad. We installed 2 of them on one of ouroffice systems and both went dead after 4 months. Overall, about 120 wentto the click of death nightmare for many customers. Seagate was NOThelpful on returning these little monsters - so we dumped Seagate, Permanently.We only sell Hitachi and Samsung Hard drives (we do not sell WD due tothere special "i am designed to work exclusively on windows 7 Operating systems").We purchased our last Seagate order on July 2010. Never again.Daniel James Tyler (The WJ Group)
Туманник-3PIWI
22.12.2009
10/10
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Well after the disaster with my 1.5TB Seagate i.e. noisy, clicking sounds, unexplained stuttering, etc. this one seems to be working fine so far.Actually, I got this drive since my 2TB Western Digital failed and WD took way to long to replace it. So I saw the low price per megabyte for this drive and wondered to myself if it was too good to be true and if I should take a chance given the problems with my 1.5TB Seagate and quality problems Seagate seems to be having of late. Anyways, I took a chance and so far I don't regret it since I've had this drive for over a month now and it's working great. First thing I noticed is that it's noticeably faster than my 2TB WD so the increase from 5200 to 5900rpm must make a difference.HDTune shows 91.6 MB/sec average speed with the Seagate vs 83.2 MB/sec for the WD. With the WD I'd notice slowdowns every now and then especially when it got full but not with the Seagate. Secondly, what's even better is that is seems to do this while staying as quiet and cool as the Western Digital 2TB. No noise noticeable so I don't know if the noise mentioned by other is a manufacturing defect or what? Finally, no signs of corruption so far as with the WD so that is good. I'm currently using Bitlocker encryption on the drive and that's a sure and quick way to tell if you getting bad clusters on the drive.So to sum it up this drive so far stands up to the Seagate drives of old that were known to be fast, reliable and just worked. Well only thing now is to see if lasts longer than my WD 2TB drive did and you'll all be the first to know if I also gotta RMA this drive.I can't find any reason to knock off any stars so far since I got it for really cheap and it's doing everything it promised so far. Only thing I could even think of complaining is that it takes forever to format and that it only shows up as 1.81TB in Windows (shows up as a full 2TB in Snow Leopard macosx though) but that's a problem with Microsoft and not Seagate.
Лунатик-3ZMPL
23.01.2011
4/10
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Oh my, what can I say. Seagate dropped the ball AGAIN. The drive worked for approx 3 weeks, then my father said his media center was unusable -- would stutter during playback or almost lock up -- all the time. In Windows 7 Resource Monitor, it was showing Response Time of 1500 to 7500 ms for files on this drive. This number should be 15 ms or so. That is literally up to 7.5 seconds for the drive to respond to a request.We updated the drive firmware to CC35 (update available on Seagate website), and now the drive appears to be working normally. How does something like this make it to the field?
Спектроник-9LQQD
28.05.2011
10/10
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Lots of cheap, reliable storage. After several Hitachi Deathstar drives died, I switched to seagate and my problems went away. No complaints. It's quiet and works great.
Небулоид-0SWNR
20.02.2011
10/10
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I bought this hard drive about 3 weeks ago for storage purposes. If you are concerned about how much noise this drives makes then there is nothing to worry about. The cooling fans of my pc make more noise than this drive, and if you are also worried about the temperatures that this drive normally runs at, mine is always in a range of 34-38 degrees. It runs pretty cool, and most importantly of all pretty damn silent. I would buy seagate drives over other brands any day at any time.
ТерраБот-5ZGST
23.04.2010
10/10
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I have 6 2TB Seagate LP 5900 rpm drives in my readyNAS Pro, and so far so good.Four of them I bought about a year ago (Frys). Two of them I bought on a sale from Microcenter recently.Heat: I had a Hitachi 2TB 7200 rpm drive that was always 45 degrees when in operation. The Seagates were 39 degrees on the average.Noise: I could hear my Hitachi clicking and trashing all the way from my living room to my dining room. Not so with my Seagates. When the plates started to spin I could hear the Hitachi do all kinds of noises as well. This was true when the Hitachi was in the NAS and when it was in it's own usb enclosure. When I removed the Hitachi from the RAID (after it failed) and added more Seagates, the noise issue was gone.Reliability: My single Hitachi died, my 4 almost same age Seagates are cruising, now what are the chances of that happening...In my experience, the Seagates are cool and so my NAS doesn't have to spin the fans too much, making the whole system silent. They are also relatively inexpensive, and somewhat power efficient. I do not need the hard drive speed in my NAS. However, if you are a gamer and plan to install a hard drive in your custom gaming PC, I can understand if 5900 rpm 3Gbs 32M cache is not going to cut it, and may be better off looking for something else that properly exploits the features of your motherboard.I was worried about buying these drives back when I purchased them @ Frys given the problems that their previous 1.5TB line had. But so far these hard drives have not failed me.
КиберНаблюдатель-8GXMH
08.12.2010
4/10
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The Good... I bought these on special during the cyberweek deals @$59.99 each which is a good price.The Bad... The reviews you read about the noise are not exaggerating. These are just about the noisiest drives on the market. I used them primarily as file server drives and all i hear is a loud whir and constant clicking - that's a bad product.The Ugly... I've used these for less than 2 days (in non-continuous use) and one drive has already failed. Suffice it to say I am returning both due to them being defective (most likely) or being damaged during shipping (somewhat likely).Oh Seagate what has happened to your hard drives?!Do yourself a favor spend a few more bucks and go Western Digital.1.5 stars just for storage space and price
Лунатик-9KVDL
26.10.2010
2/10
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1 month after purchasing an 1.5TB External Seagate hard drive with this disk installed inside, I could hear some thicks and weird noises from the drive and finally the malfunction. The drive stopped and then continued working and finally stopped completely! I extracted the disk and connected it into a internal SATA port and the same problem occured. I had 1TB filled with info. So I decided to purchase the same drive but in this case, only INTERNAL. I opened the box and installed it into my system. With a Thermaltake external SATA-USB docking station I could transfer info from the old 1.5TB seagate hd to the new 1.5TB hd. I have 3 weeks with the new drive and it began to make noises too!!! What kind of disk are these?I WON'T RECOMMEND THIS DRIVES TO YOU.If you want a better performance and quality, goto Western Digital. My external WD 500GB is 1 year old and is flawless,Daniel
ТехноНаблюдатель-0RWIF
01.11.2010
4/10
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This is the worst failure rate I've ever seen - 2 out of 4 drives I've purchased have failed. The last time I had failures this bad was with the old Maxtor Diamondmax 9's. Stay away from the Barracuda LP drives.I bought these 2tb drives because of the price and in the past I've always had very good results from Seagate drives. I bought them in pairs - one for main data drive and one for a backup - in case of failure. I bought one pair in 11/24/2009 and until recently, they were working without issue. I bought a second pair on 8/15/10 because I filled the first pair. Then late October 2010 one drive from first pair and one drive from second pair have started clicking and failed at the same time. Since I have these drives in a PC used as a DVR, we've missed some shows due to the failure. Wife not happy!
Капеллан-8TTFG
01.12.2010
10/10
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2TB on one spindle for $70! My first drive was 10MB for $800!The setup issue is in how to set up the partitioning to be 4KB-sector friendly on Windows XP. The Seagate DiscWizard (download only, this is a bare drive) refused to set up two partitions - insisted on setting up one partition to fill the entire drive. After some Googling I ended up using diskpar.exe to create the first partition at 64 sector offset.Packaging was just the OEM cardboard box and plastic supports for the bare drive. A little worrying but the drive set up fine.It came with firmware CC34 (production around 10110), CC35 is on the Seagate site but would not install for me. I emailed Seagate to ask about that.Now I hope for long life!
Сириус-7ZYOW
26.02.2011
8/10
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I bought this drive as a replacement for one that kicked the bucket after a year of service. I use these drives in a DROBO and have had good luck so far, with the exception of the one that recently failed. If this one fails as well I will certainly have to find another vendor and re-think my rating. I want to claim they are great drives but that will depend on how long this one lasts.
ОмниКод-6JAFT
23.04.2011
10/10
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I purchased 2 drives to run in my QNAP 419+ NAS system. They have been tunning for a months and are quiet and run cool. So far so good. I'll be purchasing more soon to expand the storage capacity.
Астрономад-1PMHM
23.01.2011
10/10
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i have 8 of these drives in RAID 5 in my QNAP 859 pro+. so far they have been working flawlessly. QNAP has been running 24/7 for about a month. didnt perform any firmware updates on the drives. write times from an iMac to the QNAP over wired network averages about 70MB/sec according to istat pro running on the mac. haven't done any formal speed testing yet but when i do i will amend this review. will also amend this review if any of the drives fail.was happy with the frustration free packaging.
Астероид-6TLYZ
20.10.2009
4/10
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Basic specs: This is a 5900 RPM drive, rated at 95MB/s max transfer rate and <16ms access (per the product manual). The power consumption is 3.0W idle and an an amazing 19dBA/20dBA noise--per the specs.To be honest, I wasn't expecting much after having disappointing (atrocious?) performance from WDC's "green" drives. As far as performance, however, I was pleasantly surprised. This drive tops out at 120MB/s--way above spec. The AVERAGE is 95 MB/s. Also, I was expecting access times (including rotational latency) to be well above 20ms. However, here again, I was pleasantly surprised with 14.7ms--way above spec.OK, here's where I drop the bomb. I have no idea what kind of drugs Seagate was on when they came up with the acoustics. It is on their website, their datasheet, and the product manual. I have been impressed with past Seagate drives over their quietness, so I was really hoping this would be a very quiet drive at its rated 19dB which is even low for laptop drives. In fact, the low noise is the main reason I bought this. I didn't buy it for performance. I have SSDs and VelociRaptors for that. This is a media drive. And, the noise is obnoxious. This two-platter drive is louder than my 7200 RPM 4-platter Seagates. It is also louder than my VelociRaptors. The noise is also far worse than rated because it is a very high-pitched whine. About the closest I can think of is the old WDC Raptor 10K RPM drives.As a final note, my Watt-Meter measured about a 4W difference between plugged in and not. This is at the wall, so considering power supply efficiencies, 3W or so is believable which is very low power.In sum, this is a great drive for a file server that is far away in a closet somewhere. Its performance is good, and it is low power. Unfortunately, for a desktop or media center PC, the noise will give you a headache. There are better drives for those applications, like the older, quieter, 7200 RPM Seagates for starters. For any application where the drives sleep when not used, any power savings with this drive is just not worth the noise.
Странник-9VTRJ
20.01.2011
8/10
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I'm probably not the first one to do this, so I'll pass it on. Apparently a 'bare drive' is a drive with no parts, and not just a 'clean drive.' IE, it's an OEM drive, and there are no SATA cables, no screws, no SATA power converter cables, no manual, no factory provided hard drive tools for cloning, etc. I was a little surprised. I was able to get around what I assumed would have been provided, but I'm sure there are many customers who wouldn't have had the extra parts around.So, fair warning.
Вектрон-8MTRF
16.02.2011
8/10
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Seagate Barracuda LP 2 TB 5900RPM SATA 3 GB/s 32 MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Hard Drive ST32000542AS-Bare DrivePurchased 2 of these hoping they would be a good deal. I have installed both drives in my HP Home Server. Each drive formatted out to 1.89 GB.I am in the burnin process now so I can not comment on reliability but I have purchased other Seagate drives with good results both in chassis and external.
Гравитон-0EVCZ
07.02.2011
2/10
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Seagate sucks! I will not buy from them again. It is WD or Hitachi from now on.I used this for 3 months and filled it 70%. Now it is dead! Will not spin up at all.Seagate said it CAN cost me over a $1K to get my data off. I have to send it in for a free evaluation. Pretty sure the price will go higher. I am pissed! I could have purchased 12 more drives with $1K and I would have 24TB of space or RAID 0 and make tons of copies.
Дроид-5DERX
10.07.2010
8/10
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I Purchased 3 of these drives to be a part of a high availability raided NAS. Overall they are performing fine, but I could not give a higher mark due to some quality control issues.Pros:1) High Capacity2) Very quiet spin operation3) Slightly higher RPM then other green drives.4) Fast access time (Though my NAS is hardware limited to 50MB read, 30MB Write so the actual speed of the drive is unknown).Cons:1) Seems 1/4 drives arrive DOA. I got lucky2) One of my 3 is already 20% to the trouble threshold in high fly writes in S.M.A.R.T. It should pass this threshold in a month or so which will mean an RMA procedure.3) Drives park their heads automatically every 30 seconds - 1 minute. This operation is very loud. When contacting Seagate, it seems to be a "feature".4) Drive does not listen to standard hdparm options such as reduced accoustic modes.Overall, based on the performance so far and my uptime reliability, i would suggest this drive to friends, I just hope in the future seagate pays more attention to a drive's acoustics, especially during access or parking routines. It's horrible having a dead quiet rotation get interrupted every minute by a BANG!
ХроноГость-4HJWS
01.09.2010
2/10
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Amazon should not be selling an item like this. This drives conveniently fail right when the window to return them to Amazon closes, and you need to send them to Seagate who will just send you back the same 5900 rpm junk (even worst because Seagate turns around and sends you a refurbished one not a new one which is what you paid for) leaving you without a choice to change for a regular 7200rpm one. What is strange is that I have dealt with Seagate drives almost exclusively when I build PCs and this are the first drives that have let me down completely. Seagate drives usually carry a 5 year warranty, but this drives carry only a three year warranty so even Seagate does not have much confidence in this 5900 rpm drives. I can say for sure that I would not recommend this drive to anyone. Do not make the mistake I made of trusting the company reputation!Seagate Barracuda LP 2 TB 5900RPM SATA 3 GB/s 32 MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Hard Drive ST32000542AS-Bare Drive
Небулоид-2HEMU
05.04.2010
8/10
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I have had two of these drives operating continuously in a ReadyNAS storage device for the past three months and have just added a third. I have not experienced any of the failures or other problems that anybody here has described. All three disks, both the initial two and the third one that arrived more recently were well packaged in appropriate shock-insulating supports as well as in the manufacturer's anti-static foil bags. As expected, no instructions or other hardware were included which was not a problem given the intended use.These drives are not quite as quick as faster enterprise-level drives I've used, but quite adequate for my needs especially when used in an environment where network performance is probably the bottleneck rather than drive performance. Noise was a bit greater than I might have expected and temperatures were quite good. Compared to smaller Pipeline HD drives they replaced, these are faster, cooler but significantly noisier and I would not recommend them for a DVR or any other application where quiet operation is important. On a lark, I did try using one in a Netgear media player but got inconsistent results, apparently due to the fact that the startup time was too long.On the whole, I think the Barracuda LPs are an adequate lower-power alternative to enterprise drives in settings where maximum performance and minimum noise are not important criteria. Most likely will add a fourth to this array in the near future.
Астрон-9COTD
28.11.2010
10/10
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The seagate drives are awesome and they worked perfectly with my Synology 410j. They run very quiet and cool.What I don't like is Amazon's half assed pack job. I purchased 2 drives. Both were in an oversized box bumping around with nothing but a single pillow pack to keep them safe. Really Amazon? REALLY!? These are OEM units, not retail. That means absolutely no packaging. Just an anti-static bag.Amazon, if you're reading this, you guys need to get some schooling in proper hard drive packaging. Had you been sending this to Seagate the way it was shipped, it would have voided the warranty for sure. Do it right or don't do it at all.
Вектрон-8XDJU
09.01.2011
8/10
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When I read the reviews on this drive, I initially passed them up. After the price dropped just before Christmas, they were too inexpensive pass up. I bought a couple and set them up in a RAID 1 external cabinet and set them as the backup device for Time Machine. After nearly a month of spinning full time, I haven't any issues with the drives. Additionally, the drives are much quieter than reports led me to believe. They are not as quiet as my Hitachi 2TB drives, but certainly not loud.
Кварковец-2ZUST
17.03.2011
4/10
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Despite this drive being only 5900 rpm it worked great as an external drive. I say worked because after less than a year the drive failed on me. This is the second seagate drive I have had fail on me in two weeks. I will not buy another seagate drive.
Альфа-Юнит-7FFSU
12.04.2011
10/10
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Purchased this drive for my Windows Home Server (HP). I inserted the drive into the tray and added it to the drive pool, that was it.It's working great so far.
Плазмоид-3JXGT
28.12.2010
10/10
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i have it for a month now, and don't have any problems so far.i'm using it for storage to share data in a small home network(7 PCs), so far fast, quiet, and reliable.i bought the item for $70 so it is a good value. it runs at 5900 rpm but the drive is not slow compared with mine WD 7200 , i would say it performs a little better for now, it's not full though(30% of its capacity so far).the drive is good fro storage and general use, i would recommend this drive at the above price.
Кронос-7GNBI
05.07.2010
10/10
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I ordered 6 of these drives, 5 to put in Synology DS1010+ and one to keep on-hand for a spare. I ordered 3 drives from Amazon along with the Synology, and 3 drives from newegg. The 3 drives from Amazon are all "Made In China" and the 3 from newegg are "Made in Thailand". The Amazon drives were boxed individually and well protected, not able to bump around into each other during shipping.Over Gigabit Ethernet, the 5900RPM just won't be any issue. I still get over 110MB/sec transfers from the Synology. The drives have all been working fine and have passed multiple SMART tests.These drives DO take a few seconds to spin up if you allow them to spin down after idle. This will cause "freezes" if you use these in your PC, while the PC waits for the drive to spin up. If that's a problem for you, don't allow them to spin down in your power settings.The Synology DS1010+ and 5 drives together use about 55 Watts total. Very low power compared to leaving my main workstation on all the time (at least 250 Watts when idle). Now my HTPC and STB's can access shares when my main PC is off.
Гелиос-7USKR
17.03.2011
10/10
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Won't rehash what everyone's already said. These are great drives. I have about 15 of them on a ReadyaNAS network and multiple computers right now. They've been working great for months!
Пульсар-8VNDA
07.04.2011
2/10
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Amazon keeps delaying shipment of this drive, so although I ordered it over 20 days ago, I still can't review it.
Сириус-1TSYW
06.02.2011
2/10
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Four of these drives failed the SeaTools diagnostic out of the box. PeriodI have exclusively purchased Seagate drives for many years. Seagate needs to thoroughly review their entire QC department in China. Seagate is about to lose me as a long time customer since I can no longer trust their hard drives.
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