Seagate 1TB Barracuda 7200.11 Bulk/OEM Hard Drive ST31000340AS by Seagate
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Digital camera reviews of Seagate 1TB Barracuda 7200.11 Bulk/OEM Hard Drive ST31000340AS
Digital camera Review: 1 out of 3 failed.
Summary: 2 Stars
Hmm...shoulda looked at more of the reviews before I made my purchase. Silly me for not paying a little more for the "enterprise" version of this drive. In short, these units shipped 11/26/2008 and the drive I affectionately named Bastion died 12/26/2008. And this merely after formatting the drive with nary a byte written. Thank God I didn't place anything valuable on there. I'll admit that I tend to run my drives for long stretches of time, but they're always in a temperature-controlled environment with plenty of airflow in the external eSATA chassis. In any case, I'll be backing up the other two drives post haste. With the "infant mortality" rate this line is seeing, I'm surprised there hasn't been more blowback from the public directed at Seagate. So I guess I'll be RMA'ing this one, but like the others, I don't expect I'll see much better quality in return. Seriously, Seagate, are you silently slipping Maxtor parts into your consumer drives? What are you smoking?!Digital camera Review: 100% failure rate - Bad Batch?
Summary: 1 Stars
Purchased 2 from Amazon, both failed within a few days of using. This may be a bad batch from China because it looks like failures on other posts were manufactured around the same time.
One drive gave I/O errors the other just disappeared from the machine. Unfortunately they were both ROOT drives for my machines so I wasted a lot of time trying to recover.
Digital camera Review: 1TB Seagate Will FAIL!!!
Summary: 1 Stars
Don't buy this hard drive. Seagate is not recognizing a problem with these drives and others that they are manufacturing. Many users, including myself, have had these hard drives fail within 4 months. Specifically, it's the hard drives with firmware version sd15 and from thailand. If you get brave and buy it anyways, then back up your data everytime you move something to it. It's not a matter of if... but when it fails!!! Don't say you weren't warned.Digital camera Review: 1TB going strong
Summary: 5 Stars
I've had this item for about a year now and it hasn't failed me. I run a diagnostic test about once a month and it has yet to find any disk errors. The speed is very good and the drive is quiet.Digital camera Review: 21 Days Until It Stopped Working
Summary: 1 Stars
I bought this drive for a new home built HTPC and file server. I loaded WinXP on the computer and the Seagate drive worked really well until today. Now, the computer will not boot beyond the BIOS's drive detect. So, it seems the controller is bad. The drive never was detected when the BIOS was set to AHCI whereas my two Seagate 750 GB drives are detected in AHCI mode. I am going to send it back to Seagate. I am not happy they want $20 to send me a new drive ASAP after only 20 days of use. It's a big job reloading many GBs of backup. They should pay me $20+. Looking at the distribution of reviews it doesn't look like this drive will come close to Seagate's claimed MTBF. Too many early failures!