ΠΡΠ·ΡΠ²Ρ ΠΎ ΠΠ΅ΡΡΠΊΠΈΠΉ Π΄ΠΈΡΠΊ Seagate Barracuda 500 ΠΠ ST3500418AS
719 ΠΎΡΠ·ΡΠ²ΠΎΠ² ΠΏΠΎΠ»ΡΠ·ΠΎΠ²Π°ΡΠ΅Π»Π΅ΠΉ o Seagate Barracuda 500 ΠΠ ST3500418AS
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Seagate Barracuda 500 ΠΠ ST3500418AS?
ΠΠΎΠ΄Π΅Π»ΠΈΡΠ΅ΡΡ ΡΠ²ΠΎΠΈΠΌ ΠΎΠΏΡΡΠΎΠΌ ΠΈ ΠΏΠΎΠΌΠΎΠ³ΠΈΡΠ΅ Π΄ΡΡΠ³ΠΈΠΌ ΡΠ΄Π΅Π»Π°ΡΡ ΠΏΡΠ°Π²ΠΈΠ»ΡΠ½ΡΠΉ Π²ΡΠ±ΠΎΡ
Π‘ΠΊΡΠΎΠΌΠ΅Π½ΡΠΉ ΡΠΊΡΠΏΠ΅ΡΡ
25.06.2012
2/10
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Π£ΠΆΠ°ΡΠ½ΠΎ
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.
Π‘ΠΊΡΠΎΠΌΠ΅Π½ΡΠΉ ΡΠΊΡΠΏΠ΅ΡΡ
05.01.2013
10/10
ΠΡΠ΅Π½ΠΊΠ° ΠΏΠΎΠ»ΡΠ·ΠΎΠ²Π°ΡΠ΅Π»Ρ
ΠΠ΅Π»ΠΈΠΊΠΎΠ»Π΅ΠΏΠ½ΠΎ
Works. It's what I ordered.and it works and it was cheap and it was delivered timely and i'll make another purchase.
Π‘ΠΊΡΠΎΠΌΠ΅Π½ΡΠΉ ΡΠΊΡΠΏΠ΅ΡΡ
03.12.2012
4/10
ΠΡΠ΅Π½ΠΊΠ° ΠΏΠΎΠ»ΡΠ·ΠΎΠ²Π°ΡΠ΅Π»Ρ
Π£ΠΆΠ°ΡΠ½ΠΎ
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.
Π‘ΠΊΡΠΎΠΌΠ΅Π½ΡΠΉ ΡΠΊΡΠΏΠ΅ΡΡ
04.06.2012
2/10
ΠΡΠ΅Π½ΠΊΠ° ΠΏΠΎΠ»ΡΠ·ΠΎΠ²Π°ΡΠ΅Π»Ρ
Π£ΠΆΠ°ΡΠ½ΠΎ
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.
Π‘ΠΊΡΠΎΠΌΠ΅Π½ΡΠΉ ΡΠΊΡΠΏΠ΅ΡΡ
12.11.2012
10/10
ΠΡΠ΅Π½ΠΊΠ° ΠΏΠΎΠ»ΡΠ·ΠΎΠ²Π°ΡΠ΅Π»Ρ
ΠΠ΅Π»ΠΈΠΊΠΎΠ»Π΅ΠΏΠ½ΠΎ
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.
Π‘ΠΊΡΠΎΠΌΠ΅Π½ΡΠΉ ΡΠΊΡΠΏΠ΅ΡΡ
14.11.2012
2/10
ΠΡΠ΅Π½ΠΊΠ° ΠΏΠΎΠ»ΡΠ·ΠΎΠ²Π°ΡΠ΅Π»Ρ
Π£ΠΆΠ°ΡΠ½ΠΎ
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.
Π‘ΠΊΡΠΎΠΌΠ΅Π½ΡΠΉ ΡΠΊΡΠΏΠ΅ΡΡ
21.01.2009
2/10
ΠΡΠ΅Π½ΠΊΠ° ΠΏΠΎΠ»ΡΠ·ΠΎΠ²Π°ΡΠ΅Π»Ρ
Π£ΠΆΠ°ΡΠ½ΠΎ
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
Π‘ΠΊΡΠΎΠΌΠ΅Π½ΡΠΉ ΡΠΊΡΠΏΠ΅ΡΡ
28.12.2010
2/10
ΠΡΠ΅Π½ΠΊΠ° ΠΏΠΎΠ»ΡΠ·ΠΎΠ²Π°ΡΠ΅Π»Ρ
Π£ΠΆΠ°ΡΠ½ΠΎ
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 275Β°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 60Β°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.
Π‘ΠΊΡΠΎΠΌΠ΅Π½ΡΠΉ ΡΠΊΡΠΏΠ΅ΡΡ
24.02.2011
2/10
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Π£ΠΆΠ°ΡΠ½ΠΎ
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.
Π‘ΠΊΡΠΎΠΌΠ΅Π½ΡΠΉ ΡΠΊΡΠΏΠ΅ΡΡ
12.05.2012
2/10
ΠΡΠ΅Π½ΠΊΠ° ΠΏΠΎΠ»ΡΠ·ΠΎΠ²Π°ΡΠ΅Π»Ρ
Π£ΠΆΠ°ΡΠ½ΠΎ
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.
Π‘ΠΊΡΠΎΠΌΠ΅Π½ΡΠΉ ΡΠΊΡΠΏΠ΅ΡΡ
08.07.2009
2/10
ΠΡΠ΅Π½ΠΊΠ° ΠΏΠΎΠ»ΡΠ·ΠΎΠ²Π°ΡΠ΅Π»Ρ
Π£ΠΆΠ°ΡΠ½ΠΎ
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.
Π‘ΠΊΡΠΎΠΌΠ΅Π½ΡΠΉ ΡΠΊΡΠΏΠ΅ΡΡ
29.10.2012
10/10
ΠΡΠ΅Π½ΠΊΠ° ΠΏΠΎΠ»ΡΠ·ΠΎΠ²Π°ΡΠ΅Π»Ρ
ΠΠ΅Π»ΠΈΠΊΠΎΠ»Π΅ΠΏΠ½ΠΎ
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.
Π‘ΠΊΡΠΎΠΌΠ΅Π½ΡΠΉ ΡΠΊΡΠΏΠ΅ΡΡ
03.09.2012
2/10
ΠΡΠ΅Π½ΠΊΠ° ΠΏΠΎΠ»ΡΠ·ΠΎΠ²Π°ΡΠ΅Π»Ρ
Π£ΠΆΠ°ΡΠ½ΠΎ
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.
Π‘ΠΊΡΠΎΠΌΠ΅Π½ΡΠΉ ΡΠΊΡΠΏΠ΅ΡΡ
13.09.2012
6/10
ΠΡΠ΅Π½ΠΊΠ° ΠΏΠΎΠ»ΡΠ·ΠΎΠ²Π°ΡΠ΅Π»Ρ
ΠΠ»ΠΎΡ ΠΎ
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.
Π‘ΠΊΡΠΎΠΌΠ΅Π½ΡΠΉ ΡΠΊΡΠΏΠ΅ΡΡ
03.09.2012
2/10
ΠΡΠ΅Π½ΠΊΠ° ΠΏΠΎΠ»ΡΠ·ΠΎΠ²Π°ΡΠ΅Π»Ρ
Π£ΠΆΠ°ΡΠ½ΠΎ
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!
Π‘ΠΊΡΠΎΠΌΠ΅Π½ΡΠΉ ΡΠΊΡΠΏΠ΅ΡΡ
13.09.2011
4/10
ΠΡΠ΅Π½ΠΊΠ° ΠΏΠΎΠ»ΡΠ·ΠΎΠ²Π°ΡΠ΅Π»Ρ
Π£ΠΆΠ°ΡΠ½ΠΎ
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.
Π‘ΠΊΡΠΎΠΌΠ΅Π½ΡΠΉ ΡΠΊΡΠΏΠ΅ΡΡ
25.09.2012
10/10
ΠΡΠ΅Π½ΠΊΠ° ΠΏΠΎΠ»ΡΠ·ΠΎΠ²Π°ΡΠ΅Π»Ρ
ΠΠ΅Π»ΠΈΠΊΠΎΠ»Π΅ΠΏΠ½ΠΎ
Works great in a NAS box that is running 24x7. Got it to replace a dead drive. I would buy this again.
Π‘ΠΊΡΠΎΠΌΠ΅Π½ΡΠΉ ΡΠΊΡΠΏΠ΅ΡΡ
07.09.2012
10/10
ΠΡΠ΅Π½ΠΊΠ° ΠΏΠΎΠ»ΡΠ·ΠΎΠ²Π°ΡΠ΅Π»Ρ
ΠΠ΅Π»ΠΈΠΊΠΎΠ»Π΅ΠΏΠ½ΠΎ
Bought this as a backup HD, works great. Seagate has been around for many years, they know what they're doing.
Π‘ΠΊΡΠΎΠΌΠ΅Π½ΡΠΉ ΡΠΊΡΠΏΠ΅ΡΡ
03.07.2012
4/10
ΠΡΠ΅Π½ΠΊΠ° ΠΏΠΎΠ»ΡΠ·ΠΎΠ²Π°ΡΠ΅Π»Ρ
Π£ΠΆΠ°ΡΠ½ΠΎ
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.
Π‘ΠΊΡΠΎΠΌΠ΅Π½ΡΠΉ ΡΠΊΡΠΏΠ΅ΡΡ
15.06.2012
2/10
ΠΡΠ΅Π½ΠΊΠ° ΠΏΠΎΠ»ΡΠ·ΠΎΠ²Π°ΡΠ΅Π»Ρ
Π£ΠΆΠ°ΡΠ½ΠΎ
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.
Π‘ΠΊΡΠΎΠΌΠ΅Π½ΡΠΉ ΡΠΊΡΠΏΠ΅ΡΡ
04.06.2012
8/10
ΠΡΠ΅Π½ΠΊΠ° ΠΏΠΎΠ»ΡΠ·ΠΎΠ²Π°ΡΠ΅Π»Ρ
Π₯ΠΎΡΠΎΡΠΎ
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.
Π‘ΠΊΡΠΎΠΌΠ΅Π½ΡΠΉ ΡΠΊΡΠΏΠ΅ΡΡ
17.11.2009
6/10
ΠΡΠ΅Π½ΠΊΠ° ΠΏΠΎΠ»ΡΠ·ΠΎΠ²Π°ΡΠ΅Π»Ρ
ΠΠ»ΠΎΡ ΠΎ
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.
Π‘ΠΊΡΠΎΠΌΠ΅Π½ΡΠΉ ΡΠΊΡΠΏΠ΅ΡΡ
14.07.2012
2/10
ΠΡΠ΅Π½ΠΊΠ° ΠΏΠΎΠ»ΡΠ·ΠΎΠ²Π°ΡΠ΅Π»Ρ
Π£ΠΆΠ°ΡΠ½ΠΎ
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.
Π‘ΠΊΡΠΎΠΌΠ΅Π½ΡΠΉ ΡΠΊΡΠΏΠ΅ΡΡ
20.07.2012
2/10
ΠΡΠ΅Π½ΠΊΠ° ΠΏΠΎΠ»ΡΠ·ΠΎΠ²Π°ΡΠ΅Π»Ρ
Π£ΠΆΠ°ΡΠ½ΠΎ
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.
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9.7/10 Π±Π°Π»Π»ΠΎΠ²
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ΠΎΡ 5960.00 ΡΡΠ±.
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9.2/10 Π±Π°Π»Π»ΠΎΠ²
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ΠΎΡ 25440.00 ΡΡΠ±.
846 ΠΌΠ΅ΡΡΠΎ ΠΈΠ· 7298 Π²
9.2/10 Π±Π°Π»Π»ΠΎΠ²
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ΠΎΡ 5143.00 ΡΡΠ±.
132 ΠΌΠ΅ΡΡΠΎ ΠΈΠ· 6104 Π²
9.2/10 Π±Π°Π»Π»ΠΎΠ²
Western Digital 500 ΠΠ WD5000BEVT
ΠΎΡ 2199.00 ΡΡΠ±.
93 ΠΌΠ΅ΡΡΠΎ ΠΈΠ· 6104 Π²
9.1/10 Π±Π°Π»Π»ΠΎΠ²
Western Digital 400 ΠΠ WD Scorpio Blue 400 G
ΠΎΡ 4280.00 ΡΡΠ±.
36 ΠΌΠ΅ΡΡΠΎ ΠΈΠ· 4864 Π²
9/10 Π±Π°Π»Π»ΠΎΠ²
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ΠΎΡ 13940.00 ΡΡΠ±.
175 ΠΌΠ΅ΡΡΠΎ ΠΈΠ· 6104 Π²
9/10 Π±Π°Π»Π»ΠΎΠ²
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ΠΎΡ 2800.00 ΡΡΠ±.
136 ΠΌΠ΅ΡΡΠΎ ΠΈΠ· 6104 Π²
8.9/10 Π±Π°Π»Π»ΠΎΠ²
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ΠΎΡ 28535.00 ΡΡΠ±.
89 ΠΌΠ΅ΡΡΠΎ ΠΈΠ· 6104 Π²
8.9/10 Π±Π°Π»Π»ΠΎΠ²
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ΠΎΡ 11630.00 ΡΡΠ±.
96 ΠΌΠ΅ΡΡΠΎ ΠΈΠ· 6104 Π²
8.9/10 Π±Π°Π»Π»ΠΎΠ²
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ΠΎΡ 2915.00 ΡΡΠ±.
610 ΠΌΠ΅ΡΡΠΎ ΠΈΠ· 6104 Π²
8.7/10 Π±Π°Π»Π»ΠΎΠ²
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ΠΎΡ 14255.00 ΡΡΠ±.
839 ΠΌΠ΅ΡΡΠΎ ΠΈΠ· 7298 Π²
8.7/10 Π±Π°Π»Π»ΠΎΠ²
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ΠΎΡ 12995.00 ΡΡΠ±.
134 ΠΌΠ΅ΡΡΠΎ ΠΈΠ· 6104 Π²
8.7/10 Π±Π°Π»Π»ΠΎΠ²
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ΠΎΡ 12995.00 ΡΡΠ±.
117 ΠΌΠ΅ΡΡΠΎ ΠΈΠ· 4471 Π²
8.7/10 Π±Π°Π»Π»ΠΎΠ²
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ΠΎΡ 12436.00 ΡΡΠ±.
2786 ΠΌΠ΅ΡΡΠΎ ΠΈΠ· 11882 Π²
8.7/10 Π±Π°Π»Π»ΠΎΠ²
Western Digital 1 Π’Π WD1001FALS
ΠΎΡ 9950.00 ΡΡΠ±.
154 ΠΌΠ΅ΡΡΠΎ ΠΈΠ· 6104 Π²
8.7/10 Π±Π°Π»Π»ΠΎΠ²
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ΠΎΡ 8795.00 ΡΡΠ±.
121 ΠΌΠ΅ΡΡΠΎ ΠΈΠ· 6104 Π²
8.6/10 Π±Π°Π»Π»ΠΎΠ²
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ΠΎΡ 7325.00 ΡΡΠ±.
197 ΠΌΠ΅ΡΡΠΎ ΠΈΠ· 6104 Π²
