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: Possibly the most unreliable drive out there
Summary: 1 Stars
My drive lasted for 2 years (which is better than some of the other reviewers) and just died on me a couple of days ago. The drive died completely on a whim; there were no signs of it failing. It just decided to go kaput on me one day.
Fortunately, I am not alone. People... Do NOT buy this drive, or any Seagate drive for that matter. Its a good thing I have everything backed up, but it was still a hellish experience.
With the others, I am sure this is firmware issues.
Digital camera Review: Priced Right- bare bones.
Summary: 5 Stars
Just the bare bones. No cables, adapters, screws. However, it works well, and runs quiet in my Popcorn Hour Media Server. Price was right, too!Digital camera Review: Reliability issues
Summary: 3 Stars
I bought 4 of these for a RAID5 setup in September. So far I've had two of them fail. One was a hard failure in which the controller stopped working completely, and the other is showing a lots of seek errors in the SMART data and tells me its going to fail soon. They both started clicking the heads (a symptom of a reset because of an error) just a few days after I got them.
Seagate replaced the total failure within a couple of days after I reported it, and now I have to ship them back the failed drive. I bought a new unit I'm expecting tomorrow as a spare replacement, and I will be reporting and shipping back the drive with all the seek errors soon.
The drives have otherwise been great, but 50% isn't such a good reliability statistic, and that's my primary measure for a drive.
On the other hand, I did buy two other drives from the same family, two ST3500320AS drives. They have been working away flawlessly in my workstation in a RAID1 setup since I got them.
Digital camera Review: Saddened to say Amazon failed to ship the drive properly
Summary: 1 Stars
A warning:
I received an OEM drive, i.e. the part was pulled from the mfr's shipping container and reshipped. Amazon failed to properly prepare the drive for shipping. Because I stupidly assumed a SATA cable came with the drive I will have to get one before I can tell if it is working at all. If I am unfortunate enough that it works I am afraid I can't expect a full life expectancy because it has been slammed around enough to pop all the internal airpacs.
Specifically the drive came in a 9X12 inch Amazon box with a few (unpopped)airpacs then an internal 9X6 inch Amazon Box with an ironic "Ready to Ship!" sticker containing the drive and 2 popped airpacs. I don't think there was enough packaging to prevent rattling of the 9X6 box and inside the 9X6 box obviously experienced enough acceleration to pop all the airpacs placed with the drive.
Digital camera Review: Seagate 1TB
Summary: 1 Stars
I bought two. Note the drives are OEM made in China. Received 12/2/2008. Put into service 12/4/2008. One died 12/9/2008. Sent back to Seagate on 12/16/2008. Enough said - you get what you pay for.