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: Solid SATA Value
Summary: 5 Stars
I have used these HDs in an external eSATA host appliance connected into my MAC Pro via an eSATA / PCI Express card. Used this way, the HD becomes essentially a removable, high capacity disk. The Seagate has given good speed performance and represents the most cost effective way of obtaining this facility.Digital camera Review: Solid and reliable seagate drives
Summary: 4 Stars
It's the classic price vs performance debate. How much do you value your data and at what cost should you protect it? Personally I think Seagate has an edge on the competition, it's prices are decent, whilst most importantly, the performance and build of the drives are stellar. It runs quiet, I was forced to strain to listen to hear it running. It actually ran all night backing up an entire archive and was only moderately warm. The 5 year warranty put's your mind at rest too should the unspeakable happen.Digital camera Review: Terrific Drives
Summary: 5 Stars
These are great drives (performance and capacity) backed with a greater manufacturer and warranty. Have many of these, some workj 7/24, and perfectly happy with them. I keep coming back.Digital camera Review: The drive died after about 3 weeks!
Summary: 1 Stars
My drive installed fine on my computer but died afterwards. About 3 weeks after I bought I noticed my computer did not recognize it. I changed the jumper setting but still no luck.
Too bad this happend since it looked like a nice product. Will never go back to buying a Seagate drive again.
Be carefull when buying these drives.
Digital camera Review: This Product is a Disaster!
Summary: 1 Stars
You can expect it to work great long enough for you to copy a lot of data onto it, then one fine day you boot up and BIOS cannot detect it. Not just a problem with drives manufactured in Thailand, mine was made in China. So it's a design problem, not a production problem, and apparently in the firmware.
To date Seagate has basically stonewalled on the dead drives while making muddled attempts to provide firmware upgrades for drives still working. Meanwhile they continue to market these defective products. (What are you supposed to do when you're in a hole? Stop digging.)
Update as of 15 Aug 2010 (foregoing was originally posted in Jan 2009):
I'm surprised to see so many reports of the firmware issue a year and a half after it started appearing. Must be a lot of old drives still in stock and selling slowly due to the bad reputation.
I was able to repair the drive using techniques described on the web (not for the technically timid, but desperate times call for desperate measures), and in fairness I'll state I've had no problem with the drive in the year and a half since (but you better believe I have it well and truly backed up).