Here is my review of the OEM, Seagate 12th series ST31000528AS 1 TB Barracuda dual platter perpendicular recording very spaciousg SATA desktop hard drive. This particular drive comes with platters with density level of 500 GB each. For this model line, there are various sizes ranging from 160 GB to 1 TB in size. I've noticed particularly, larger capacity drives comes in SATA only. It's getting harder and harder to buy a hard drive in the EIDE form, because EIDE interface is on its way out. It's being phased out by most hard drive manufacturer as well as computer motherboard manufacturer. For those of you with older computers that has only EIDE interface, you may be able to connect your computer to a SATA hard drive or optical drive by using a converter card. This card is inserted in the back of the hard drive converting a SATA drive to EIDE.I've purchased this drive to use as storage only, and petition it as one large petition of 931 GB. After installation of this drive on my computer, I use Seagate's excellent free DiscWizard software to petition the hard drive. The process is relatively quick unlike using Windows to do this. I've downloaded this hard drive utility program from the Seagate website. This is a 128 MB download and may take a while on a slower Internet connection. This program will only run if you have at least a Seagate or Maxtor hard drive on board. This hard drive utility program is really a stripped-down version of Acronis True Image Home. Partly because of this excellent utility program that I decided to stick with Seagate instead of defecting to Western Digital instead for this purchase. With this program, you can clone your old hard drive to the new under Windows or using the bootable CD R which you can make with this program. You can use this program to backup your entire hard drive as well and save it on your storage drive. If anything should happen to your Windows installation, all you would have to do is to restore it using this program in its entirety. Doing it this way, you would not have to install Windows plus updates and all of the programs that you use all over again. You can do this by just simply inserting the bootable CD, restart the computer and then follow the prompts to restore your computer. Unlike previous programs of this nature, this program does an excellent job of it. After the cloning or restore, everything appears to work fine. In my example for instance using maximum compression, I was able to save my 37 GB which was the total of my "C" Windows petition as a 19 GB file on my storage drive. This unreliable problem with the 11th series because its firmware problems which hurt Seagate's reputation tremendously. It's also because of that, that Seagate reduced the warranty from five years to three for consumer grade hard drives. Although, the server class NS series hard drives still remains at five years warranty. According to some of the professional reviews, they reported that this hard drive is extremely fast in fact almost as fast as one running at 10,000 RPM. I tried benchmarking this hard drive using Sandra. The test result shows a starting point at 129 MB a second read speed with a drive index of 102. The test results shows that this hard drive is slightly faster than my previous 11th series Seagate hard drive. This hard drive runs extremely quiet and relatively cool with temperature not exceeding 32Β°C on my computer so far. This is about 5Β°C less when compare with my previous hard drive installed in the same position under the same conditions. This according to Hard Disk Sentinel, the hard drive monitoring program. Because of the fast read and write speed of this hard drive as well as my previous one which was the Seagate 11th series, I was able to copy my files over from my old to this one in relatively short time. The old drive will be installed on my old computer to be used as storage or as Windows drive.Update July 17, 2009: So far, This drive has been performing extremely well and I am quite happy with the performance. Since purchased, according to S.M.A.R.T. I have 164 hours on the clock. It hasn't produced any unusual noises or other glitches.Update August 16, 2009: According to S.M.A.R.T. the hard drive had a minor problem, one reallocated section moved to the spare section. Other than this, the drive still works extremely well. As long as I'm not getting more new bad sections constantly it should be all right. Regardless of what, I think Seagate is slipping in quality control. Even the best of hard drives comes manufactured with bad section, that get mapped out during the first initialization process at the factory so it doesn't show up under S.M.A.R.T.. This is usually the case, why when you receive the drive it appears perfect.
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Π‘ΠΊΡΠΎΠΌΠ΅Π½ΡΠΉ ΡΠΊΡΠΏΠ΅ΡΡ
01.03.2013
10/10
ΠΡΠ΅Π½ΠΊΠ° ΠΏΠΎΠ»ΡΠ·ΠΎΠ²Π°ΡΠ΅Π»Ρ
ΠΠ΅Π»ΠΈΠΊΠΎΠ»Π΅ΠΏΠ½ΠΎ
I have been using this HDD for a few years as my primary drive. I have formatted many times without error. I may upgrade to a 6Gb/s in the future but I have had no performance issues with this drive. I have used Seagate in the past and the quality is no different with the Barracuda.
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Π‘ΠΊΡΠΎΠΌΠ΅Π½ΡΠΉ ΡΠΊΡΠΏΠ΅ΡΡ
28.03.2013
8/10
ΠΡΠ΅Π½ΠΊΠ° ΠΏΠΎΠ»ΡΠ·ΠΎΠ²Π°ΡΠ΅Π»Ρ
Π₯ΠΎΡΠΎΡΠΎ
Seems to work just fine in a ZyXEL file server. No bad sectors found so far. Works well with an older version 7200 in a RAID 1 configuration
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Π‘ΠΊΡΠΎΠΌΠ΅Π½ΡΠΉ ΡΠΊΡΠΏΠ΅ΡΡ
19.03.2013
10/10
ΠΡΠ΅Π½ΠΊΠ° ΠΏΠΎΠ»ΡΠ·ΠΎΠ²Π°ΡΠ΅Π»Ρ
ΠΠ΅Π»ΠΈΠΊΠΎΠ»Π΅ΠΏΠ½ΠΎ
Shipped quickly. I Opened, installed and it was recognized, took my data and is now running as my primary drive. No noise, no issues. Excellent purchase.
ΠΡΠ·ΡΠ² ΠΏΡΠ΅Π΄ΠΎΡΡΠ°Π²Π»Π΅Π½
Π‘ΠΊΡΠΎΠΌΠ΅Π½ΡΠΉ ΡΠΊΡΠΏΠ΅ΡΡ
02.02.2013
10/10
ΠΡΠ΅Π½ΠΊΠ° ΠΏΠΎΠ»ΡΠ·ΠΎΠ²Π°ΡΠ΅Π»Ρ
ΠΠ΅Π»ΠΈΠΊΠΎΠ»Π΅ΠΏΠ½ΠΎ
This hard drive was the featured hard drive in my old Dell computer back in 2003. I removed it and put it in an external enclosure when I bought a new computer in 2006...and have used it ever since. For what it's worth, it has provided me with reliable storage for the past 10 years. No problems at all.
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Π‘ΠΊΡΠΎΠΌΠ΅Π½ΡΠΉ ΡΠΊΡΠΏΠ΅ΡΡ
08.03.2013
10/10
ΠΡΠ΅Π½ΠΊΠ° ΠΏΠΎΠ»ΡΠ·ΠΎΠ²Π°ΡΠ΅Π»Ρ
ΠΠ΅Π»ΠΈΠΊΠΎΠ»Π΅ΠΏΠ½ΠΎ
exelent product and exelent shippeng good very good buys exelent product and exelent shippeng good very good buys exelent product and exelent shippeng good very good buys
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Π‘ΠΊΡΠΎΠΌΠ΅Π½ΡΠΉ ΡΠΊΡΠΏΠ΅ΡΡ
23.03.2013
10/10
ΠΡΠ΅Π½ΠΊΠ° ΠΏΠΎΠ»ΡΠ·ΠΎΠ²Π°ΡΠ΅Π»Ρ
ΠΠ΅Π»ΠΈΠΊΠΎΠ»Π΅ΠΏΠ½ΠΎ
Upgrade install for my Mac Book Pro went smooth from the start. Video tutorial, a torque driver and you're good to go.
ΠΡΠ·ΡΠ² ΠΏΡΠ΅Π΄ΠΎΡΡΠ°Π²Π»Π΅Π½
Π‘ΠΊΡΠΎΠΌΠ΅Π½ΡΠΉ ΡΠΊΡΠΏΠ΅ΡΡ
31.12.2012
2/10
ΠΡΠ΅Π½ΠΊΠ° ΠΏΠΎΠ»ΡΠ·ΠΎΠ²Π°ΡΠ΅Π»Ρ
Π£ΠΆΠ°ΡΠ½ΠΎ
Seagate st31500341AS CC1H fw. Run and Run fast from installing any OS on this drive. You will get the click of death and if you do not clone it to a NON Seagate drive right away you are toast. Seagate buggered up the fw if used in boot and it will auto brick itself. Cloning to another seagate drive will have the source drive TURN OFF at 33%!!! WTF??? Regardless of backup software. RUN!
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Π‘ΠΊΡΠΎΠΌΠ΅Π½ΡΠΉ ΡΠΊΡΠΏΠ΅ΡΡ
05.03.2013
10/10
ΠΡΠ΅Π½ΠΊΠ° ΠΏΠΎΠ»ΡΠ·ΠΎΠ²Π°ΡΠ΅Π»Ρ
ΠΠ΅Π»ΠΈΠΊΠΎΠ»Π΅ΠΏΠ½ΠΎ
Excelente, buen servicio y buena calidad, lo recomiendo ampliamente, puntuales al entregar los pedidos y muy profesionales, quede encantado de todo lo que me dieron.
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Π‘ΠΊΡΠΎΠΌΠ΅Π½ΡΠΉ ΡΠΊΡΠΏΠ΅ΡΡ
11.01.2013
10/10
ΠΡΠ΅Π½ΠΊΠ° ΠΏΠΎΠ»ΡΠ·ΠΎΠ²Π°ΡΠ΅Π»Ρ
ΠΠ΅Π»ΠΈΠΊΠΎΠ»Π΅ΠΏΠ½ΠΎ
I purchased this in November 2010, and I use it in an external enclosure as a replacement drive for a DirecTV DVR. Because of how DVR's are continously saving the show you are watching to allow for rewinds, pausing, or toggling back and forth between two programs the drive runs pretty much non-stop. I've never had a problem with it.
ΠΡΠ·ΡΠ² ΠΏΡΠ΅Π΄ΠΎΡΡΠ°Π²Π»Π΅Π½
Π‘ΠΊΡΠΎΠΌΠ΅Π½ΡΠΉ ΡΠΊΡΠΏΠ΅ΡΡ
19.01.2013
8/10
ΠΡΠ΅Π½ΠΊΠ° ΠΏΠΎΠ»ΡΠ·ΠΎΠ²Π°ΡΠ΅Π»Ρ
Π₯ΠΎΡΠΎΡΠΎ
I have no complaints and it is installed and working. As with any hard drive, it is running. I am at week 5 with it installed. I took off one star as it was not price competitive with other brands or even the 500G version. However, I wanted the same size as I already had installed for backup reasons.
ΠΡΠ·ΡΠ² ΠΏΡΠ΅Π΄ΠΎΡΡΠ°Π²Π»Π΅Π½
Π‘ΠΊΡΠΎΠΌΠ΅Π½ΡΠΉ ΡΠΊΡΠΏΠ΅ΡΡ
20.02.2013
6/10
ΠΡΠ΅Π½ΠΊΠ° ΠΏΠΎΠ»ΡΠ·ΠΎΠ²Π°ΡΠ΅Π»Ρ
ΠΠ»ΠΎΡ ΠΎ
The drive was great and was sent in good time. The annoying thing about this purchase was that it did not include the mounting screws for the drive. Why not include all of the hardware?
ΠΡΠ·ΡΠ² ΠΏΡΠ΅Π΄ΠΎΡΡΠ°Π²Π»Π΅Π½
Π‘ΠΊΡΠΎΠΌΠ΅Π½ΡΠΉ ΡΠΊΡΠΏΠ΅ΡΡ
12.03.2013
10/10
ΠΡΠ΅Π½ΠΊΠ° ΠΏΠΎΠ»ΡΠ·ΠΎΠ²Π°ΡΠ΅Π»Ρ
ΠΠ΅Π»ΠΈΠΊΠΎΠ»Π΅ΠΏΠ½ΠΎ
I've had this for a couple years now, and it's given no trouble. What more is there to say about one of these?
ΠΡΠ·ΡΠ² ΠΏΡΠ΅Π΄ΠΎΡΡΠ°Π²Π»Π΅Π½
Π‘ΠΊΡΠΎΠΌΠ΅Π½ΡΠΉ ΡΠΊΡΠΏΠ΅ΡΡ
13.03.2013
10/10
ΠΡΠ΅Π½ΠΊΠ° ΠΏΠΎΠ»ΡΠ·ΠΎΠ²Π°ΡΠ΅Π»Ρ
ΠΠ΅Π»ΠΈΠΊΠΎΠ»Π΅ΠΏΠ½ΠΎ
great product for the money works awesome had this for 3 yrs and never had a problem will deff buy again
ΠΡΠ·ΡΠ² ΠΏΡΠ΅Π΄ΠΎΡΡΠ°Π²Π»Π΅Π½
Π‘ΠΊΡΠΎΠΌΠ΅Π½ΡΠΉ ΡΠΊΡΠΏΠ΅ΡΡ
18.12.2012
6/10
ΠΡΠ΅Π½ΠΊΠ° ΠΏΠΎΠ»ΡΠ·ΠΎΠ²Π°ΡΠ΅Π»Ρ
ΠΠ»ΠΎΡ ΠΎ
I bought 2 of these for a Disk Station back up, this one has died already. Just over 1 year.... and I have junk! I am NOT happy. What a disappointment.Update 12-20-12, I got on the Seagate site and punched in the numbers, it has a 3 yr warranty on it, when they get this drive, they will send a replacement. So... happy about that, but will see how long the drive lasts.... to be continued..
ΠΡΠ·ΡΠ² ΠΏΡΠ΅Π΄ΠΎΡΡΠ°Π²Π»Π΅Π½
Π‘ΠΊΡΠΎΠΌΠ΅Π½ΡΠΉ ΡΠΊΡΠΏΠ΅ΡΡ
11.03.2013
10/10
ΠΡΠ΅Π½ΠΊΠ° ΠΏΠΎΠ»ΡΠ·ΠΎΠ²Π°ΡΠ΅Π»Ρ
ΠΠ΅Π»ΠΈΠΊΠΎΠ»Π΅ΠΏΠ½ΠΎ
We ordered this drive for a NAS box, it is still working and is very quiet. Would buy another any day....
ΠΡΠ·ΡΠ² ΠΏΡΠ΅Π΄ΠΎΡΡΠ°Π²Π»Π΅Π½
Π‘ΠΊΡΠΎΠΌΠ΅Π½ΡΠΉ ΡΠΊΡΠΏΠ΅ΡΡ
21.11.2012
8/10
ΠΡΠ΅Π½ΠΊΠ° ΠΏΠΎΠ»ΡΠ·ΠΎΠ²Π°ΡΠ΅Π»Ρ
Π₯ΠΎΡΠΎΡΠΎ
I bought a pair of these from Amazon along with a pair of 2TB drives and put them in a FreeNAS server. They all worked out so great that someone offered me too much for the server and I sold it. For my next server I'll be using an ASUS Zacate based on the AMD E-350 chip. Just ordered it from Amazon. The drives are great for this type of application. In fact, I spent an hour looking through Amazons listings yesterday hoping to find another pair of these and the 2TB version.
ΠΡΠ·ΡΠ² ΠΏΡΠ΅Π΄ΠΎΡΡΠ°Π²Π»Π΅Π½
Π‘ΠΊΡΠΎΠΌΠ΅Π½ΡΠΉ ΡΠΊΡΠΏΠ΅ΡΡ
20.02.2013
10/10
ΠΡΠ΅Π½ΠΊΠ° ΠΏΠΎΠ»ΡΠ·ΠΎΠ²Π°ΡΠ΅Π»Ρ
ΠΠ΅Π»ΠΈΠΊΠΎΠ»Π΅ΠΏΠ½ΠΎ
The seller shipped this super quick and it has been a great quality hard drive. I have been using the hard drive for about 2 years and it has worked perfectly.
ΠΡΠ·ΡΠ² ΠΏΡΠ΅Π΄ΠΎΡΡΠ°Π²Π»Π΅Π½
Π‘ΠΊΡΠΎΠΌΠ΅Π½ΡΠΉ ΡΠΊΡΠΏΠ΅ΡΡ
02.02.2013
10/10
ΠΡΠ΅Π½ΠΊΠ° ΠΏΠΎΠ»ΡΠ·ΠΎΠ²Π°ΡΠ΅Π»Ρ
ΠΠ΅Π»ΠΈΠΊΠΎΠ»Π΅ΠΏΠ½ΠΎ
I build a (big for three years ago) RAID array out of these, and the first of 12 popped a SMART error today, so I'm here for another one. Just anecdotal, I know, but better reliability than I would have expected.
ΠΡΠ·ΡΠ² ΠΏΡΠ΅Π΄ΠΎΡΡΠ°Π²Π»Π΅Π½
Π‘ΠΊΡΠΎΠΌΠ΅Π½ΡΠΉ ΡΠΊΡΠΏΠ΅ΡΡ
03.02.2013
10/10
ΠΡΠ΅Π½ΠΊΠ° ΠΏΠΎΠ»ΡΠ·ΠΎΠ²Π°ΡΠ΅Π»Ρ
ΠΠ΅Π»ΠΈΠΊΠΎΠ»Π΅ΠΏΠ½ΠΎ
This is the forth one of these I have bought, and have never had a malfunction. They all work great and are exactly as described. I use them to clone my hard drives, using the Seagate free cloning program.
ΠΡΠ·ΡΠ² ΠΏΡΠ΅Π΄ΠΎΡΡΠ°Π²Π»Π΅Π½
Π‘ΠΊΡΠΎΠΌΠ΅Π½ΡΠΉ ΡΠΊΡΠΏΠ΅ΡΡ
24.01.2013
10/10
ΠΡΠ΅Π½ΠΊΠ° ΠΏΠΎΠ»ΡΠ·ΠΎΠ²Π°ΡΠ΅Π»Ρ
ΠΠ΅Π»ΠΈΠΊΠΎΠ»Π΅ΠΏΠ½ΠΎ
Thank God for Amazon! This was a hard drive replacement for my Dell computer; a hard drive that was not available through Dell and they had no idea when they would get one in. Easy to install; no problems. And a great price too!
ΠΡΠ·ΡΠ² ΠΏΡΠ΅Π΄ΠΎΡΡΠ°Π²Π»Π΅Π½
Π‘ΠΊΡΠΎΠΌΠ΅Π½ΡΠΉ ΡΠΊΡΠΏΠ΅ΡΡ
05.02.2013
10/10
ΠΡΠ΅Π½ΠΊΠ° ΠΏΠΎΠ»ΡΠ·ΠΎΠ²Π°ΡΠ΅Π»Ρ
ΠΠ΅Π»ΠΈΠΊΠΎΠ»Π΅ΠΏΠ½ΠΎ
So much memory that I don't know what to do with it. I sometimes regret getting so much memory. Hard drive is fast too. Well worth it but technology has evolved to SSDs now.
ΠΡΠ·ΡΠ² ΠΏΡΠ΅Π΄ΠΎΡΡΠ°Π²Π»Π΅Π½
Π‘ΠΊΡΠΎΠΌΠ΅Π½ΡΠΉ ΡΠΊΡΠΏΠ΅ΡΡ
27.12.2012
6/10
ΠΡΠ΅Π½ΠΊΠ° ΠΏΠΎΠ»ΡΠ·ΠΎΠ²Π°ΡΠ΅Π»Ρ
ΠΠ»ΠΎΡ ΠΎ
This drive died about 2 years into service. While most hard drives last anywhere from 3 to 6 years. Luckily the drive was still under warranty and I contacted Seagate, and they made good on the exchange for a new one. I would have thought this drive would have last longer than 2 years.
ΠΡΠ·ΡΠ² ΠΏΡΠ΅Π΄ΠΎΡΡΠ°Π²Π»Π΅Π½
Π‘ΠΊΡΠΎΠΌΠ΅Π½ΡΠΉ ΡΠΊΡΠΏΠ΅ΡΡ
30.01.2013
10/10
ΠΡΠ΅Π½ΠΊΠ° ΠΏΠΎΠ»ΡΠ·ΠΎΠ²Π°ΡΠ΅Π»Ρ
ΠΠ΅Π»ΠΈΠΊΠΎΠ»Π΅ΠΏΠ½ΠΎ
good producto,,, buen precio,, rapido envio,,, excellente servicio, empaque adecuado no muy grande y si peque?o,buena comunicacion e informacion del articulo