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17.02.2010
10/10
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I hate to give this 5 stars after using it for only a few days, but that is my job as a Vine reviewer. I will update this review if I have any trouble.As a computer technician, I know what I'm doing with this hard drive, but in case you are in the market for this massive-sized drive, here are some helpful tips, I hope:1. All hard drive manufacturers do not tell the truth on their size. After formatting to NTFS in Windows XP, it is 2,000,396,288,000 bytes. Since bytes are not a base of 10, the calculation is not like metric distance, so it is actually 1.81 terabytes. This is not a strike against Seagate, since everyone does it, but it you have 2TB of data, it won't fit here.2. If you want to replace your hard drive with this one, make sure that you have an SATA drive. By looking into your computer, make sure the hard drive does NOT have wide ribbon cable and white power connector. SATA are small black connectors both for power and data.3. If you want to add this as a second hard drive in your computer, make sure there is a place to mount it (and the hardware to do it), a spot on the motherboard for another SATA device and make sure to buy a cable to get power (if there isn't one available) and to attach it to the SATA connector.4. The drive comes unformatted, so you must format it so that it works for your operating system. In Windows XP, right-click on My Computer, click Manage; choose Disk Management. Find the 2TB (1863.01GB) drive, right-click on it and choose to Initialize disk (it may automatically bring up a wizard). After that, right-click on the unallocated space and choose New Partition. In my case I made it an active partition and formatted it as NTFS, which took hours. Next time I do this, I will double-check my clarity, or comment for corrections or with Vista/Win7 directions.
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27.04.2011
10/10
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I bought two of them to be installed in a D-Link DNS-321 not realizing that I would have to use Linux ext2 or ext3. After installing ext2, it was more difficult to accomplish my purpose, so I reformatted the drives (in external drive housings) to NTFS. They've been working and working well ever since.
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26.09.2010
10/10
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I bought this drive for my media NAS build using unRAID. So far, it has performed flawlessly. It is actually very quiet, which was a pleasant surprise given some of the negative reviews. I have it in my living room while I build and test my NAS, and I can barely hear it from a foot away. I do have it in a rubber mounted drive bay, so that probably helps.What I'm particularly happy with is the low temps. It runs about 5C lower than any of the other drives in the system, including some Western Digital Caviar Green drives, which I would consider to be its direct competition. The WD greens run louder and hotter than the Seagate, and according to specs probably draw more power at idle. The Seagate draws more under load, but I'm willing to make that trade for the slight improvement in transfer speeds. But since most drives sit idle for most of the time, it makes sense to me to have it as efficient as possible at idle.This drive is definitely meant for media use, and probably shouldn't be considered as a primary system drive.
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21.01.2011
2/10
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We purchase so many of these drives, our accounting department lost track.Many - and I mean Many! have gone bad. We installed 2 of them on one of ouroffice systems and both went dead after 4 months. Overall, about 120 wentto the click of death nightmare for many customers. Seagate was NOThelpful on returning these little monsters - so we dumped Seagate, Permanently.We only sell Hitachi and Samsung Hard drives (we do not sell WD due tothere special "i am designed to work exclusively on windows 7 Operating systems").We purchased our last Seagate order on July 2010. Never again.Daniel James Tyler (The WJ Group)
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22.12.2009
10/10
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Well after the disaster with my 1.5TB Seagate i.e. noisy, clicking sounds, unexplained stuttering, etc. this one seems to be working fine so far.Actually, I got this drive since my 2TB Western Digital failed and WD took way to long to replace it. So I saw the low price per megabyte for this drive and wondered to myself if it was too good to be true and if I should take a chance given the problems with my 1.5TB Seagate and quality problems Seagate seems to be having of late. Anyways, I took a chance and so far I don't regret it since I've had this drive for over a month now and it's working great. First thing I noticed is that it's noticeably faster than my 2TB WD so the increase from 5200 to 5900rpm must make a difference.HDTune shows 91.6 MB/sec average speed with the Seagate vs 83.2 MB/sec for the WD. With the WD I'd notice slowdowns every now and then especially when it got full but not with the Seagate. Secondly, what's even better is that is seems to do this while staying as quiet and cool as the Western Digital 2TB. No noise noticeable so I don't know if the noise mentioned by other is a manufacturing defect or what? Finally, no signs of corruption so far as with the WD so that is good. I'm currently using Bitlocker encryption on the drive and that's a sure and quick way to tell if you getting bad clusters on the drive.So to sum it up this drive so far stands up to the Seagate drives of old that were known to be fast, reliable and just worked. Well only thing now is to see if lasts longer than my WD 2TB drive did and you'll all be the first to know if I also gotta RMA this drive.I can't find any reason to knock off any stars so far since I got it for really cheap and it's doing everything it promised so far. Only thing I could even think of complaining is that it takes forever to format and that it only shows up as 1.81TB in Windows (shows up as a full 2TB in Snow Leopard macosx though) but that's a problem with Microsoft and not Seagate.
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23.01.2011
4/10
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Oh my, what can I say. Seagate dropped the ball AGAIN. The drive worked for approx 3 weeks, then my father said his media center was unusable -- would stutter during playback or almost lock up -- all the time. In Windows 7 Resource Monitor, it was showing Response Time of 1500 to 7500 ms for files on this drive. This number should be 15 ms or so. That is literally up to 7.5 seconds for the drive to respond to a request.We updated the drive firmware to CC35 (update available on Seagate website), and now the drive appears to be working normally. How does something like this make it to the field?
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28.05.2011
10/10
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Lots of cheap, reliable storage. After several Hitachi Deathstar drives died, I switched to seagate and my problems went away. No complaints. It's quiet and works great.
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20.02.2011
10/10
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I bought this hard drive about 3 weeks ago for storage purposes. If you are concerned about how much noise this drives makes then there is nothing to worry about. The cooling fans of my pc make more noise than this drive, and if you are also worried about the temperatures that this drive normally runs at, mine is always in a range of 34-38 degrees. It runs pretty cool, and most importantly of all pretty damn silent. I would buy seagate drives over other brands any day at any time.
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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.
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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
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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
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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!
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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!
Скроменый эксперт
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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
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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.
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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.
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