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Зета-Орион-1TRIG
31.05.2010
10/10
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This is a duel review for two products that I bought with the idea that they would be used together and they did this well. The products are the Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5 Terabyte (1.5TB) SATA/300 7200RPM 32MB Hard Drive and the SATA to PATA/IDE Hard Drive Interface Adapter. I hope this will help somebody who has the same problem that I had. I have a Dell Precision WorkStation 350 computer that had a 40GB IDE hard drive. I wanted to upgrade to a larger drive and settled on the 1.5 TB Seagate Barracuda 7200.11, which is SATA II. My old computer does not have a SATA connection so I bought the PATA to SATA adapter with the idea that I would plug the adapter into the hard drive and attach it to my external IDE hard drive case (cage) then plug it into the USB port. I had to leave the Seagate drive outside the case and only attach the electrical connections since the adapter is too large to fit into the cage with the hard drive, as expected. I then used the windows Computer Manager (right click My Computer to open then click disk mangement under storage) to initialize the drive and format it. After this, the computer recognized the drive when I opened My Computer. I used the Seagate Disk Wizard to clone my old IDE hard drive onto the new SATA II drive. This worked great. I then checked the Seagate drive and all my data, including the operating system (XP Service Pack 3), was on the Seagate. So far so good. I then turned off the computer and swapped hard drives. That is I removed the old IDE drive completely and replaced it with the Seagate SATA II and adapter. I then reassembled my computer, crossed my fingers and turned it on. To my suprise and delight, the computer came on and the operating system started up and ran flawlessly with the Seagate SATA II drive running Windows XP Sevice pack 3 and the computer recognized the drive as having 1.5 TB. After several hours, I shut down the computer and tried to restart it and this is where things went bad. The BIOS started then I got the error message "\windows\system32\config\system file missing or corrupt". I could get no further than this error message no mater what I tried. I finally decided to start over, put the drives back into the original positions and reclone the old drive back onto the new drive. I swapped the drives after the procedure and again the computer worked perfectly with the cloned data on the Seagate that was now running in my old computer. Then I shut the computer off and tried to restart it and got the same error message "\windows\system32\config\system file missing or corrupt" again.The fix. After many hours of research and trying to fix the problem it came down to one simple thing. The old computer of course had an old BIOS, which limited the hard drive capacity to 137GB so even though the old BIOS recognized the SATA II hard drive, it could not use it after a shut down. My old BIOS was version AO1 and after an up grade to version AO2, the computer recognized the new Seagate SATA II drive perfectly, even after many shut down/restart cycles.Even though I had some problems with the installation (not the fault of either product), I give both products top ratings since they both work well together. The only draw backs are that the PATA to SATA adapter is somewhat bulky and the connection to the drive is not very tight although it is an adequate fit. I have had no problems with the Seagate Drive. It is fast, quiet and easy to install.
НаноРейдер-0OUSM
02.11.2012
10/10
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This item has met my expectations as a replacement item for upgrading my system to keep current with current technology at homes today. I would acquire more of these items to finish up my other systems and neighbors as well. Seagate continues to be a name to compete with or against depending on your perspective. As long as there's power to operate, Seagate will continue to be my choice.
Вояджер-8SVHE
23.12.2012
10/10
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This is the exact replacement of the original harddrive in my PC. Fast install and recovery from backed up data. Drive format and data restore completed in less than 12 hours. Highly recommend.
Аргонавт-7VQFI
11.08.2012
4/10
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I bought 3 of these drives for a RAID 0 array on my main computer on Sep 10, 2009. One of those drives failed yesterday (Aug 10, 2012), approximately 3 years after purchase.I use my computer more than average as I work from home and my computer runs multiple virtual machines all the time. And the same computer is used for video gaming after work, on average about 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.I have expected these drives to last longer than 3 years (was expecting 5 at least), disappointed with the reliability.They are very fast and have large capacity though, but if you run these drives heavily, plan to replace them at around the 3 year mark.
ОмниКод-7ATUT
25.06.2012
2/10
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As soon as I saw the packaging I knew I made a horrible choice. The cardboard it was "secured" in was held together by a single scotch tape. Without really looking at the product after opening the package, I mounted the hard drive into my brand new build Mac Pro. The machine started up fine but the Hard Drive started making spinning noises ever 2 seconds or so, like it was trying to spin, but couldn't, then repeats the process til it just finally stop spinning altogether. Thinking it was the problem with not enough voltage from the power supply, I tried it again with only the motherboard and the hard drive plugged up to the power supply. Same. Damn. Issue.After taking it back out the casing, I took a closer look at the hard drive. The green board on the bottom is CRACKED. Seriously...Enough said.
Гравитон-9HXZX
05.01.2013
10/10
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Works. It's what I ordered.and it works and it was cheap and it was delivered timely and i'll make another purchase.
Пандорец-5CVOJ
03.12.2012
4/10
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Opened it up, plugged it in and it was clicking. I hate getting DOA items. Seagate is good about their RMA though, and I did not even have to pay for any shipping.
Аргонавт-2QRPV
15.12.2012
10/10
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I shoose the product in a determined time, all my product on time and Good status, Perfect Service, keep it in that way.
Пандорец-3KYBH
04.06.2012
2/10
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After installing a fresh copy of Windows 7 on this drive, I stared downloadingThe MS Windows updates in clumps of around 10 to 12 at a time and doing rebootsIn between each clump. I always install all versions of Windows this way becausethere is no way I'm trusting Microsoft to install 90 to 112 updates on my system at one time!Well; as it goes, my hard drive stopped booting after 5 or so hours of loading drivers and updates.I barely started the software installs and didn't even get a chance to load anti-virus software.NO BOOT DEVICE FOUND!Replaced the SATA cable and checked the Power Connector. No Boot! Connected the 3year old 750-GB Hitachi Drive back to my system, and it boots fine. What a piece of junk! A complete drive failure after less than one quarter of a day.
Плазмоид-6LWWE
12.11.2012
10/10
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This drive was a replacement in a RAID array and that is why I chose this particular model. It was an exact replacement for the one that failed after 4 years of hard use. Hopefully this one will last as long or longer.
Пандорец-6MBCP
14.11.2012
2/10
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Put this drive in a part of a mirror set. The master drive being a Hitachi out lived this drive. Out of warranty according to Seagate's website. Looking for a replacement... it's not going to be a Seagate.
Гравитон-8WOWC
08.12.2012
10/10
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Great for mass storage, inexpensive. I'm beginning to switch all my drives to SSD's. Until then, this drive serves me well.
Квантум-6PVLH
04.12.2012
10/10
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This is a great Seagate Barracuda hard drive. Easy installation and ready to use. I was able to move my data with ease.
Квазар-7SLWK
21.01.2009
2/10
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Update Review on September 22, 2009 **** 4 Stars===================================================At the beginning of this year, I wrote a scathing review of this product after numerous problems. To summarize, Seagate had a total mess on their hands with 3 different hardware revisions and over a dozen firmwares out in the span of a couple months. There were massive problems, and Seagate tech support was completely overwhelmed. I had problems of drives freezing, terrible noises on start up, reallocated sectors, and the "click of death".Fast forward. I have had the latest hardware revision -302 with firmware CC1H on 3 drives for about 8 months. These have had NO problems. I just purchased my 4th of these drives from Amazon a couple days ago, and I can confirm they are still -302 hardware and CC1H firmware. This latest one was very well packed by Amazon in a "manufacturer-type" drive box. No issues with the current packaging (although some in the past from Amazon were questionable). A full surface scan came up with no errors. I have added a customer image of my oldest drive. It is important to realize that the massive complaints of problems and failures could be with the earlier hardware revisions and firmware.I can't give this product 5 stars due to the past problems, and because there are no guarantees the ones I have won't fail before the warranty is up. (The new 2TB green drives are now having massive failures/problems.) Of the 3 I have, only 1 has "normal" hours on it, as the other 2 were backup only. I have had other drives fail in the past couple years including a WDC Raptor, a WDC laptop drive, and a Deskstar, so I believe this last version is no worse than others out there.One thing to recognize with modern drives is that they are no way as reliable as their MTBF reliability specs indicate. Hard drives are dirt cheap these days and drive manufacturers are hurting. Solid state drives will only hurt them more. I now look at drives as disposable, and keep several backups. This drive finally looks stable and has a very low cost per GB along with enough capacity to last you several more years.Previous Review====================================================================There is a fair amount of misinformation in various reviews. First, these are 4-platter drives. Next, they are part of the Seagate 7200.11 series. Both this drive and the 1TB have serious issues. Seagate support is completely overwhelmed. If you do not know about these, just surf forums dot seagate dot com for literally hundreds of pages of problems.I had purchased two of these after reading that firmware bugs had been finally worked out with SD1A. To give you an idea, Seagate has gone though something like SD13, SD14, SD15, SD17, SD19, SD35, SD37, and SD1A. The only problem is that while the model number of this product is ST31500341AS, the part number is 9JU138-XXX, and SD1A only works on 9JU138-300 drives. I received one 9JU138-301 and one 9JU138-302 which are apparently, incompatible, different hardware revisions. These latter drives use firmware revisions including CC1F, CC1G, CC1H, and CC1J where people are experiencing similar and different problems. There is such a mess of problems with these drives that Seagate support can't even keep up.To make a long story short, one of my drives makes a terrible buzzing sound on power-up which has been reported by others. Otherwise, it worked seemingly OK for a week or so. Now, I get random read/write stalls, and I get the now-famous "click of death" where the drive makes loud clicking sounds and crashes the system. Drive SMART reports no errors, but that's B.S. I bought these for backup drives, yet I cannot trust them, so what's the point? I am waiting for Seagate to respond to my inquiries (email and support form) before I return them.Based on the stories I had read in late December, I thought these drives were out-of-the-woods, so to speak, but they are not.Update: Still no response from Seagate on my 2 inquiries. Now the drive is reporting (bad) reallocated sectors. Time for a different brand. Scary amount of problems with less than 100 hours on the drive.Update: Another week and no response from Seagate. There were some rumors on their forums that their email server crashed, and that's why they weren't responding. Hello? They're a drive company. Don't they have a backup? Maybe the server used these new Seagate drives ;) FWIW, Seagate SD1A is not "out of the woods". There is now SD1B. Seagate claims that there is no need to update CC or LC firmware, but I and the forums say otherwise. There is no upgraded firmware *available* if you have a -301 or -302 drive. They are still fixing the -300 drives.Update: Finally got a response from Seagate after 3 weeks! Seems what they do is not really assist you but add your email to a mailing list which directs you to their support website for updates. My CC1H is behaving OK, but not my CC1G. According
Гравитон-8KTJQ
28.12.2010
2/10
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I picked up one of these drives to replace a 500 Gig Seagate drive that came with my computer. I have a computer couple years so I just wanted to do a little refresh; I also upgraded the graphics card. I figured I'd make the computer little nicer until I can afford a replacement in another year or two but I'm beginning to think it was a mistake.The drive worked flawlessly for about a month, sadly exactly the return policy time, but since then there've been a few oddities. For one thing, the drive makes some particularly worrying clicking sounds that may be nothing but have me very worried. I say they may be nothing, because Seatools (Seagate's drive test software) says the drive is in perfect health...Of course it also says the hard drive in my other computer is running at 275°C so I don't know how much I can trust its results. For some reason the Windows version of Seatools can never see any of my drives so I have to use the DOS version. I do have experience with another one terabyte drive. The caviar Green drive that I got for my external hard drive enclosure is much quieter and cooler.On the plus side, performance on this drive is quite good. It seems to be a lot faster than my old 500 Gig drive. I haven't noticed any slowdown or access issues other than the aforementioned odd slow motion crash issue. I'm running Windows Vista and the performance analyzer is a 5.9 rating. According to the specs I found it can take up to 60°C as an operating temperature which is quite good. If it didn't have these other problems it'd be a sweet drive. If I can stress anything from this experience it is to ONLY pay attention to people who say they've had the drive more than a month or so. If it's an out of the box evaluation they may end up changing their tune.It clicks loudly all the time now. It's enough louder from when I first got it that I have lost confidence and it sure sounds like the universal "I'm dying" sounds to me. Really I'd suggest going with Western Digital. I was much happier with the 1 TB drive I got from them. When this one goes out I'll probably just buy one of theirs. I've loved Seagate for a lot of years, but I can't see buying another after all this stress. Of course, a lot of people have had bad experiences with any brand so it could just be a bad one.Update-----3 months now and the drive crashes constantly. I routinely have to re-image because the MBR keeps failing and rendering the system unbootable. It still happily passes SMART tests so Seagate will do nothing. What a piece of garbage.
Астероид-8XLIG
24.02.2011
2/10
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after much research looking for reliability (via reviews), speed and size i purchased this harddrive.firstly i have to say that in general i love shopping on Amazon however,i am disgusted w/the repackaging of these and many harddrives as a way to be "MORE GREEN" for our environment.i received 2 orders the same day and one was a pair of wool socks.the single pair of socks were in a box that could hold 6 of these harddrives and it had those plastic bladders to cushion them.the harddrive was in a box just big enough to hold the drive and 2 hard plastic corners so there was no shock absorption at all,unlike the socks in the other box.the harddrive was in a WD (Western Digital) box that looked like it was an inner box to another box w/ pictures of a WD product.i had to laugh at how absurd this all was.like i care if my socks had a cushioned ride to mewhen a harddrive can really have a shortened life span by being shipped this way and jarred around.anyways i put the hard drive in a new enclosure and it fired up. i formatted it and started using it.it failed in 10 or so hours prompting me to, "back up the data on it and reformat" it.funny considering you can't back up what you can't access!so i reformatted it and it worked for close to 2 hrs till it wouldn't even spin up as it just shut down.so i installed it into another enclosure and it ran for about an hour then failed again.so i bought another enclosure from a different manufacturer and installed it and reformatted it after wiping the drive it worked for a few hours.i then called Seagate and the tech support guy i spoke w/ was gloating at the fact that he didn't have to help me because i was,"Using the drive in a manner inconsistent to it's design."he said that because i was using it as an "external drive" and it was an "internal drive" i was therefore voiding my warranty and he would not help me.the guy was MORE than happy to be able to tell me this as if he was a venting disgruntled employee.so i returned the drive.i miss Maxtor before they were absorbed by Seagate!my old standby backup drive is a 500gig Maxtor one touch in a ugly plastic box that i bought at Staples on sale for like $90 6 years ago. It clicks and has for 5 or so years now like it's on it's way out.when it actually does die i will miss it.i have only powered it down like 7 times in 6 years.
Сатурниан-3AXJY
12.05.2012
2/10
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If all you want is one free-standing drive, this is great. But it does NOT play well with any RAID formations. After 2 months of trying, including sending one drive back to Seagate and getting a replacement, it still would not work in a basic RAID 1 (on Win 7 machine with Intel Rapid Storage Technology). Worked for a while, but after the machine went to sleep 2-3 times, it went into a death-spire, spinning down every 30 seconds, making me wait while it spun back up for every single disk access. I finally gave up in disgust--Seagate was NO HELP. They claim it's a problem with the RAID formation; I have a second RAID formation on same machine and it works flawlessly. The Baracudas have been worthless. I had to spring for a second pair of 1 TB drives from another manufacturer, and stick this pair in a drawer.
Пульсар-8CKZJ
08.07.2009
2/10
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If you do NOT value your time, money or data - then I highly recommend this drive. For everyone else - STAY AWAY!As I said in the title, I truly wish I could give this drive 0 stars, and 0 stars for Seagate's support procedures, too (emphasis on procedures - I have nothing against their support reps). I've used dozens of hard drives from many different vendors over the years (including WD, Seagate, Toshiba, Fujitsu), some were better and some were worse - but I never came close to experience anything quite like what I experienced here.Bottom line - both the original drive I purchased, as well as the replacement drive I received - crashed within a couple of months of fairly low usage. Read on if you'd like the full details.When I first bought the drive, it was towards the end of 2008, when Seagate was already acknowledging an issue, and began providing new firmwares. I figured that a big company like Seagate won't be able to afford not-to-fix that issue, and decided the buy the drive despite the negative reports. A clear mistake.Within several days after purchase I started experiencing the same symptoms people were reporting - the drive slows to a halt, disappears from Windows, and also began to 'develop' a handful of bad sectors. Upgrading the firmwares (multiple times, as they were released) seemed to improve the situation - but didn't really. After less than 4 months, the drive died completely failing to spin up and manifesting the dreaded click of death.It was the first time ever a drive failed on me while in warranty (discounting a drive that crashed when I dropped my laptop a few years ago - which was completely my fault), so it was an unpleasant surprise to receive a refurbished drive in return. It was the very first time in my life (around 20 years of relevance) that I had a refurbished drive in any of my systems. I checked the firmware to make sure it's not supposed to be affected - and it wasn't. Long story short - exactly the same thing happened with this refurbished drive, only this time it only took 6 weeks. During these 6 weeks - as the same old symptoms that happened with the 1st drive began to repeat themselves, I contacted Seagate's support and asked them what I can do to avoid losing >1.1TB of data again. Their response was simply that these are good drives, that just a few bad sectors and a couple of spinup problems don't mean much, but that I can RMA it if I'd like.Soon thereafter, what I predicted would happen actually happened and the drive died (exact same symptoms; failing to spin up, click of death). Thankfully I was backing it up most of it to another drive on a daily basis due to lack of trust, so I hardly lost any data. I contacted Seagate's support and asked what I need to do in order to get a brand new drive, recently manufactured - so that it might actually live to celebrate it's first birthday instead of dying so prematurely. Their answer was simple and consistent - sorry, no can do, we can only give you another refurbished drive, and don't worry about it - they're fine.Telling them I have next to no faith in the model, but *absolutely no faith* in another refurbished drive from the same model was of no help. "We'll be happy to send you another refurbished drive". Why Seagate expects users to be willing to trust their data with these faulty drives is beyond me - after two failures in such a short timeframe, the burden of proof should be on THEM.I have my principles, and I refuse to spend more time on these faulty drives, especially if I have no reason to believe they'd be any better than the 100% failure rate I've seen so far (for me - a drive from a new batch *might* be better and worth a shot - but I'm only considering it because I'm already 'invested' in this drive; If you haven't bought one yet - simply STAY AWAY!). Like I told Seagate, this drive will be going to the trash can, I'll swallow the $'s lost, and do my best to prevent others from falling to the same pitfall.By the way - my system is properly cooled, and the drives never went above 43C. I have 2 other WD drives in the very same system that, touch wood, have been working without a single hiccup for over two years.If I helped prevent even one person from throwing money, but more importantly - time and data - at this drive, then it was worth writing this review.
Фотон-8IWIX
29.10.2012
10/10
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Seagate is my favorite HD maker and this vendor is one of my favorite vendors. They do what they say and the product is what I expected.
Вектрон-4DKBS
03.09.2012
2/10
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I bought 2 of these drives and put them in a raid 0 to store some semi-important media for light use. It has been less that 2 years and 1 of them has already failed. Seagate offers a 1 year warranty for a reason. I have always been a fan of Seagate, but now I don't know who is reliable.
Лунатик-9ADBE
13.09.2012
6/10
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Nothing wrong with it, it just didn't fit my older CPU and had to be returned. Seagate makes good drives so if it is compatible with your hardware no reason to pass it up. I gave it a 3 since the description didn't cover the compatibility.
Гравитон-2CHGP
03.09.2012
2/10
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Out of three identical drives I purchased, one failed after 3 weeks, and another one failed after 2 years. Luckily I am running a RAID 1 so I had no data loss, but I definitely think these are junk. Poor customer support too. Shame on you Seagate!
Квантум-5SPCJ
13.09.2011
4/10
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I don't normally submit reviews on products simply to rip the delivery or customer service etc, but am making an exception here just to warn potential buyers of the Seagate Barracuda 1.5 TB 7200 rpm bare drives sold/packaged by Electronica Direct.I already own one of these drives and it has been spinning away happily for the last year and a half or so. I purchased it from another (ahem - OWC) company so wanted to buy an exact duplicate and decided to buy it here on amazon b/c of my amazon prime membership.The drive arrived today, in a box roughly the size of a double decker shoe box. The only "protection" was a layer of the tube style bubble wrap. So this drive clattered around the country in the bottom of a gi-normous box with marginal protection. I haven't even opened the anti-static wrapper--it is going straight back to amazon and/or the reseller "Electronica Direct".FWIW, my other Seagate drive has never blinked and is very quiet, especially considering it sits in one of those "toaster" type HD docks made by voyager Q. So if you can get ahold of one of the Seagate Barracuda drives that hasn't been drop-kicked across the country, your data is as safe as can be expected from a mechanical drive.Based on the performance of the other drive I would rate this Seagate product as a 5 star. But to get potential buyers attention, overall I'm flagging it as 2 star and noting the packaging as a 1 star. Sorry to skew the overall product rating.
НаноПилигрим-6PKQK
25.09.2012
10/10
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Works great in a NAS box that is running 24x7. Got it to replace a dead drive. I would buy this again.
Кронос-7MGKW
07.09.2012
10/10
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Bought this as a backup HD, works great. Seagate has been around for many years, they know what they're doing.
Эксопилот-0VLVI
03.07.2012
4/10
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I ordered several of these drives and they lasted for about a year and a half, then both failed within 2 months of each other. I have had 5 Seagate drives fail in the last year and a half, and the oldest one was a little over 500 days old. Good-bye Seagate...Hello WD.
Сириус-6NVHR
15.06.2012
2/10
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It's very simple, do not buy these HDDs.I bought mine 2/9/11.. Started hearing the "click of death" roughly 6 months ago.Yesterday, the drive died..Also,These drives do not have the normal Seagate warranty, of 5 years.These only have a 2 year warranty.DO not waste your time or your money with these drives.
Сатурниан-9IUGF
04.06.2012
8/10
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Хорошо
I had ordered the unit but I forget why now and decided I did not need it, but the probable cost of sending it back would have been so great since I got such a good deal on the price I gave it to someone else, so far knock on wood I am not aware of any issues, which I am pretty sure I would have heard since I live in the same house.
Плазмоид-7UGEP
17.11.2009
6/10
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Okay I used to be a Seagate fanatic since I've used their drives for years and never once had to RMA one. I even got an old 15GB cheetah scsi drive that still works from like 2001! But this drive I don't know where Seagate quality control was when they made this one? I've had this drive a year and I still don't trust it and expect it to fail any day now that's how bad Seagate has fallen in my eyes. I mean it's not just the firmware fiasco it's my firsthand experience with this drive. After a couple of months it started running really slow and I would get these weird pauses playing back video or anything intensive on the drive. Never experienced anything like it before. Well the firmware update seemed to have fixed that. But soon after that I started getting strange noises from the drive so of course I ran seagate diagnostic tools to make sure it wasn't dying but it insisted the drive was good so that left me with no alternative but to complete format the drive and start over. That seems to have gotten rid of the noisy seeking of the drive for a while at least because now it's back! I was going to run seagate tools again but what do you know their software isn't compatible with Windows 7! so it looks like I'll have to find my bootable seagate diagnostic tools disc and see if I have to RMA the drive this time before the warranty runs out on it and before I lose my data! I'm just waiting now to find a reliable 2TB drive now since I also bought a Western Digital 2TB thinking they would be more reliable but no that one actually died already and I had to RMA it so if anyone knows of anyone that makes a reliable drive these days please let the rest of us know!Update: Okay I don't know if it's just a problem with the way this larger Seagate drives seek information on their larger drives but once again I got rid of the loud and random clicking noises by moving some of the data off this drive. It seems once you get near full capacity on this drive it starts to have problems finding data. Unfortunately, Seagate diagnostic tools says there is nothing wrong with drive and Windows can't find any bad sectors on it so it looks like I will have to put up with this noise longer until I get a replacement drive. After searching other websites this drive being noiser than a first-gen raptor drive seems to be common so maybe it's not that strange. What I do know though is that I also have the 1.5TB Seagate external usb/esata version and that one is pretty quiet and has't given me any problems. Also, the 2TB WD drive I have is pretty quiet and doesn't get noisy either. Still like I said I don't trust this drive since in my experience the only time I've ever had a drive get that noisy especially with clicking sounds is right before it died!My recommendation at this time would be to avoid larger capacity drive no matter what company makes them at this time unless you really need one since all the kinks don't seem to be worked out like the drives that have been around for a while.Update2: Okay I guess my instincts were right on and this drive finally died without warning. Did not even last a year. The way it died was most unusual too since I've never seen this happen with any of my harddrives before. It started doing it's noisy clicking and one day I turned on my computer and it was recognized as a ST-Ml3fqbl and not a ST31500341AS anymore. From what I could google this means the heads on the drive went bad :( Anyways, only good thing is that I can now RMA this and hopefully get a better replacement drive.
НаноПилигрим-6KPNL
14.07.2012
2/10
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I bought this replacement hard drive and am having to replace already- less than two years after purchase. Would not recommend anyone to buy this as it is not worth any price.
Плазмоид-1EUFU
20.07.2012
2/10
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I had this drive OEM Installed in my Dell XPS (1TB Seagate Barracuda 7200.12) and it failed in less than a month. So much for reliability.
Интеллектор-4GPBR
18.05.2012
2/10
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A terrible drive if you plan to use it for more than a year. I have had at least 10 clients in the past month lose these drives. Even the replacement drives have had numerous failures. Fortunately, most clients were have their drives image daily. Most of the failures were sudden and dire enough that no data was retrievable.
Лунатик-9EVJT
11.12.2010
4/10
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First of all: It is funny to me when people say that a good hard drive lasts 3-5 years. No, a good hard drive lasts 7-10 years. The fact that so many of these have problems is worrisome, but the the ones that do work are great.I bought one of these from a different etailer and decided to buy another for a low price here on Amazon (price has been jacked up since). I returned it because it failed. It is important to mention how Amazon packages this product. Amazon does a TERRIBLE job packaging these things. It is literally just sitting in a cardboard box. Other places like new egg do a much better job. Amazon also has terrible customer service. I wanted a replacement rather than a refund. My hard ST3500418AS bare drive had a different ASIN number so the customer service lady had a hissy fit about replacing it when I am sure the only difference is the firmware revision. That is a big FAIL on Amazon's part for having employees that know nothing about what they are selling. I opted it buy it from new egg for $5 more. They know their stuff and never gave me any problems. I'm definitely not coming back to Amazon for this type of product for a long time.The product itself worked for a few hours when all of a sudden I heard the hard "accessing" data non-stop. It didn't stop. I left my computer on over night and it still was going in the morning. The hard drive was busy doing something so intense that it took me literally an hour to boot into Windows 7. After running some hard drive diagnostic utilities on the drive, it turns out its built-in test was reallocating bad sectors. By the time I removed the drive from my computer there were 75 bad sectors!!!!! This number was still rising, as the hard drive continues to constantly be reallocating data. Most people RMA with a couple of bad sectors on a new hard drive. My other hard drive in the case that is 3 years old (a SAMSUNG T166) hard drive has 0 bad sectors.In short: Amazon - terrible packaging, worse customer service, sending this back for a refund. Oh yeah, they jacked up the price.Bought this same hard drive again from new egg where I got my first one.
Сириус-4QIOI
08.07.2012
2/10
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Bought 4 drives from this seller. Two drives failed within the first weeks of use. I'll be replacing all of these drives as soon as I can.
Пульсар-5GQSK
14.05.2012
10/10
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This was purchased as an exact replacement for a drive that had begun to show errors after 3 years of almost constant use. Reasonable cost, fast delivery, upon delivery it checked out as free of problems, accepted the huge backup image with no problems, and has performed with no problems since the swap almost a month ago.
Пульсар-2ZHLB
30.04.2011
10/10
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As usual another good purchase from Amazon. Got this Seagate Barracuda 500gb disk drive two weeks ago. Some years ago I was introdueced to Seagate drives and that worked perfectly until I recycled that PC. My gaming rig has a Maxtor II as its main drive and one day I ran a test on it had 1 bad sector, still works fine. So checked Amazon and found this Seagate. Purchased it, went to their web sight and downloaded Seagate discwizard and cloned my Maxtor and the seagate became my primary drive. Turned PC off, switched sata cable plugs so Seagate is in #1 plug and Maxtor is in #2 plug and erased Maxtor and now its the storage drive running fine and its 2 years old been running everyday, off late at night. Now the Seagate which is twice as fast, will be the work horse. Its so quiet some times I have to look at the HD light to know its working. Great price from Amazon, quick shipping, great product from Seagate. Very happy with purchase, all of my latest PC upgrades{Samsung Monitor, ASUS mobo, Seagate HD} have come from Amazon, sorry I didnt purchase my quad core AMD CPU and power spupply from here. Im in the market for new EVGA video card, which is all Ive ever owned because they make the best and have great customer support and it will come from here and this is my gaming machine. The other PC in the house will be getting some upgrades from Amazon also. Seagate makes great hard drives, and Amazon is a great place to purchase them from. BTW I read some of the bad reveiws but with electronics that happens. Ive never had a Seagate die on me. Purhcase one if you need it and good luck with your new hardware.
Зета-Орион-0JZOP
18.04.2010
4/10
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I will never buy another Seagate internal hard drive memory ever again. In the past, I have purchased about five of these internal drives and in the end I've had to RMA two back to the manufacturer and now I have another one that I need to send back because it has failed, to be more specific I have differing numbers of the barracuda series 7200.10, 7200.11, either the 750 GB or 1 TB sizes and I haven't seen any trend in which ones fail and which ones don't, but I'm not very impressed with any of them. I must admit that Seagate customer service is usually very good and they are very quick to replace my old drive, but they replace it with a certified repaired HDD. Regardless of the fact that Seagate replaces the drive, there is no way that they can recover the information on the drive and unless I have backed it up, I have lost the information forever. There is nothing more frustrating than having to think about whether or not you have backed up your music files or your important family pictures.I guess I never really thought that there was a difference amongst the different hard drive manufacturers, and I hate to pick on just one manufacturer, but all of the problems and failed drives that I have had in the past have been Seagate. Don't get me wrong, when you first get to drive, they run great, they are fast and quiet and they do exactly what they are supposed to do, but after several months of use and as the drive becomes more filled with your important information, it becomes extremely frustrating when you start hearing the ticking sound since that is probably the first indication and that is when you know that the drive is starting to fail and that you have only a short amount of time before you have to back up all of your data before you lose it.In the past, I've usually purchased storage drives based on whichever one was on sale or was the bargain at the time I needed to add to my storage, but from now on I will take into consideration the name brand as I have now vowed to never purchase another Seagate hard drive. I must admit that Seagate usually had the best price, therefore I usually ended up with more of them in the past, but I have also have purchased Western Digital, Hitachi and now Samsung. I've never had such problems with any of my other big, 1 TB, storage drives which brings me to the conclusion that it must be the manufacturing of the drive and the poor quality inspection as well as the inferior work mention of the drive and that is the reason why it fails.I've noticed that filling my storage drives close to 750 GB increases the likelihood that it will begin to act strangely, and if the drive is going to fail then that is usually when I begin hearing that infuriating ticking sound which only gives me a little time to "backup" my information. This experience has now made me paranoid so I backup and backup my backups so don't lose any information.
Кварковец-3EGVZ
30.01.2012
2/10
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I bought six of these drives in July of 2009, and by December of 2011, three of them have failed. I tried updating the firmware following the instructions from Seagate's website, and they all either updated successfully, or didn't need updating (meaning all three failed drives have up-to-date firmware), and then tried running diagnostic on them again, and all three still failed.I will never buy Seagate again if I could help it. 50% failure rate is just unacceptable. Maybe I had a bad batch, but I have never encountered anything like this in 13 years of building my own computers, and it was very disappointing.
Небулоид-9RBOX
26.01.2012
2/10
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I worked fine for a week, but after that the drive would constantly make noises even if nothing's happening. If you tried to do anything, the drive would freak out and freeze. For example: When I play starcraft, it would all of the sudden start making a lot of noise, and the game would freeze for 10-20 seconds. It pretty much made my computer unusable. So every program you tried to run, it would lag and freeze. Please avoid this product even if it was recommended by tonymacx86 for a hackintosh. I built it perfectly right, but the only problem is the hard drive. It's a real buzz kill.
Интеллектор-5BNFA
26.04.2012
4/10
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This drive was my system drive in an Windows 7 system for just over 3 years. Then it started making random clicking noises, and its read/write speed dropped to almost nothing. Lots of bad sectors appeared. Sad that it failed not long after the warranty period expired.
КиберНаблюдатель-5MUGV
30.05.2012
2/10
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I purchased 3 of these drives in November 2011 and placed them into a Drobo FS. Experienced first failure today after 6 months of use.
НоваГость-7QBEX
09.04.2012
8/10
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Large amount of storage, plug it in and put stuff on it. Simple as that.I wouldn't buy another do to the rapid rise in solid state drives which are far superior, but other than the technology itself becoming less valuable, this product has been useful.
ТерраБот-6RVNF
22.04.2012
10/10
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I purchase this as a replacement for my husband's computer. I installed it myself, and rebooted the computer and it has worked amazingly well for my husband ever since. I would recommend this product again.
Туманник-0GGUI
29.11.2010
8/10
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The product is excellent. Virtually noiseless, speedy and big capacity. Firmware was not the latest and I read some reviews about Seagate issuing firmware updates on this model and others of the same series. The disk is SAS (Serially Attached SCSI), not native SATA. The new firmware available from Seagate (CC46) was flashed flawlessly on the disk, but due to the differences between SATA and SAS interfaces SeaTools and the Model Identification tool from Seagate were not able to read the serial number from the disk after flashing from the CC38 version that came from Amazon to the latest issued version CC46 from Seagate. It did make the disk quieter and also stopped some blue screen problems in Windows 7 that I had with the disk as delivered when I bought it. However these problems were driver related, not due to the firmware contained in the drive at the time of purchase. Highly recommended for anyone seeking fast and light storage for the current PCs. 500GB should be enough for everyone, and these black drives (ST 350041 8AS) are just perfect for the performance hungry power user as well as the multimedia oriented HTPC builder nowadays. If using under Linux don't forget to enable High DMA and MSI on your disk controller driver if using Linux 64-bit as well as always turning software NCQ off (with kernel command line parameters in grub's menu.lst or in the lilo.cfg file) so that the disk's hardware and your disk controller perform all the heavy lifting during data transfer therefore leaving the valuable CPU cycles available to the rest of the system. CPU usage should not be more than 7%~12% on single core machines or negligible (<3%) on current multicore processors.RAID reliability and compatibility may vary depending on your BIOS/controller but firmware CC38 (the one I got purchasing in November 2010) and later have no problems at all on a rather old Phoenix 6.x BIOS on my BIOSTAR AMD Athlon 64 3000+ 2GHz motherboard.
Аэронавт-9GWDB
07.02.2012
10/10
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What else is there to say, it's a 7200 rpm drive that's still going strong 2 years, 7 months later without skipping a beat. It's now the data drive in combination with my new SSD Mushkin 120GB Chronos Deluxe which I couldn't be happier with. But I needed to give this Seagate its due respect for serving me well.I have no clue what I paid for it all these years later, but I don't recall it being all that expensive at the time.
Небулоид-8FWHP
20.04.2012
10/10
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I've had this drive for about a while now and it's still humming. It has speedy IO and has been reliable for me. I've had no issues, and I'm very happy with the drive.
Спектр-8JEWH
17.04.2012
10/10
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I've been using this hard drive for about 3 hours a day, for about a month now, and I'm very pleased with the performance so far. It's quiet and fairly fast@3Gb/s.
Нейрон-6QROV
21.09.2010
4/10
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I bought two of these drives for using in a RAID 1 array in a Synology DS210j Network Attached Storage (NAS) device. After 6 weeks of operation, one of the drives failed.When the drive went bad, I contacted Synology and told them the errors the NAS was sending me. It indicated the Reallocated Sector Count showed a failing drive and their take on the drive was that it was failing. At any rate, the NAS won't mount the volume.The drive has a 3 year warranty, and the failed drive was well within that time period. Seagate insists that you download their diagnostic software to test the drive prior to returning, as they claim a high return rate of good drives. I am sure that is true, but the diagnostic software can only be run on a DOS/Windows system. Since the NAS runs Linux, the diagnostic software obviously won't run on it. Otherwise, all I have is a laptop, so how do I connect an internal 3.5" drive to it?They do allow you to return a drive without running the diagnostic utility, but if they determine the drive is good, you have to pay for the return shipping. Also, you have to package the drive to their specifications, so don't throw the shipping box away when you buy the drive. Unfortunately I threw my box out, so I had to find an anti-static bag and some foam shipping material to send the drive in.I returned the drive to Seagate, and in a week or two, I got a replacement drive. I was a bit peeved that the drive was refurbished rather than a new drive. It was only 6 weeks old! I should have been given a new replacement. If the drive was a year old, then OK, send me a refurbished drive. But at 6 weeks, the drive was clearly a factory defect, and I should have been given a new one.Since they do not reimburse you for shipping the drive to the repair facility, I see it as I ended up paying more money than I should have, and I ended up with a used drive. It cost $12 to ship the drive via UPS to Texas, which was about 20% of the cost of the drive.I gave this product 2 stars because of the drive failure, and the exchange for a refurbished drive rather than a new one (at 6 weeks after purchase).
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