Seagate Barracuda 7200 1.5 TB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s 32MB Cache 3.5 Inch Internal Hard Drive ST31500341AS-Bare Drive by Seagate
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Digital camera reviews of Seagate Barracuda 7200 1.5 TB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s 32MB Cache 3.5 Inch Internal Hard Drive ST31500341AS-Bare Drive
Digital camera Review: A great buy
Summary: 5 Stars
I was looking to expand some of my 1TB drives and this one was a perfect replacement. Speed is about the same or a little faster (transfer Mb/sec) and seek times are about the same.
I read other reviews saying those drives tend to go bad but so far this one has been working fine. No unexpected temperature issues, etc.
I run a bunch of drives in a RAID5 array so I'm not overly worried if one crashes.
Given the price - I'd say it's a great buy!
Digital camera Review: AVOID AT ALL COSTS!
Summary: 1 Stars
Drive failures on the Seagate 7200.11 family have been around 20-30%. Totally unacceptable for this kind of product. Read the reviews on Amazon dot com site or NewEgg dot com. For every excellent review there are 1/3 of very bad reviews with DOA (dead on arrival) or failures after a month. If you care about your data do not buy this drive even if you are gong to use it in RAID configuration as it is known to cause RAID volumes to break as more than one drive would fail at the same time. Search on Google for the Seagate model or look at the Seagate Community Forums, they are on fire! Seagate response? None, non-existing support!!!Digital camera Review: Amazon is shipping CC1H drives, and they're awesome.
Summary: 5 Stars
Generally speaking, you just can't go wrong buying a Seagate drive, and this one is no exception.
Rather than jump in the fray of "OMG I GOT ONE WITH BAD FIRMWARE AND I HATE THE WORLD", I'll just let the world know how things worked out for me, because there are more than enough reviews to tell you that this is the speediest, hugest SATA drive you can buy... and that it's the worst drive ever. More likely than not, you've already decided if you're going to roll the dice, and just want to know what to expect if you order from Amazon instead of another vendor. So... here goes...
I bought two of these drives from Amazon (not the third party links), and the packaging was incredible, especially for an OEM drive. A box with layers of foam protecting the drive... in another box with packing material. They totally blew NewEgg out of the water here.
As far as the drive itself, they came with CC1H out of the box, so no firmware flashing was necessary. The conventional wisdom is that CC1H is the magic firmware that fixes the problems people were having with older iterations of this drive.
I've been using the two drives I bought in a RAID 0 configuration on one of my Macs for nearly two weeks now, without so much as a hiccup.
Digital camera Review: Another one bites the dust
Summary: 1 Stars
YET ANOTHER UPDATE:
EXCELLENT CUSTOMER SERVICE. Seagate called me today. They're swapping out my 1.5 TB drives for new 2GB Constellations on an advanced replacement basis. All I have to pay is shipping! The Constellations are Enterprise class (ES) drives that run about $300 a pop (here on Amazon - retail's higher).
Seagate's my new favorite company, they've got a customer for life.
UPDATE - PROBLEM IDENTITIED:
Since I wrote the review below, I've had 2 more 1.5 TB drives fail. I called Seagate to try to resolve the issue, and was told (by 3 different people in 2 different departments) that these drives are NOT RELIABLE in RAID configurations.
According to Seagate, they market them as 'desktop' drives which means they are designed to be used for a few hours a day rather than continuously. Apparently they're fine for non-RAID use (one person told me they work OK for RAID-0 and RAID-1, although I'm not sure how that would be different from RAID-5).
This may explain the number of problems that some people (like me) have with these drives while they work perfectly fine for others. I wish I had known this before I bought the drives to begin with.
Over the last 2+ decades I've owned hundreds of hard drives. I can say with certainty that the Seagate 1.5 TB drive is the worst of the lot, and not by a little.
At the moment, I've got 22 drives in service. 12 of them are Seagate 1 TB enterprise (ES) drives. 6 of them are WD 160 MB drives. 4 of them are Seagate 1.5 TB drives. Over the last six months I've had 7 drive failures. 5 of them have been Seagate 1.5 TB drives (the other two were ancient WD-160's). You read that right - 5 failures in a pool of 4 drives.
These are not heat or power related failures. The servers run behind a high-end power conditioning UPS and are well ventilated; the drives are barely warm to the touch when I swap them out.
I wouldn't recommend these drives to my worst enemy.
Just to be clear, my problem is specifically with the Seagate 1.5 TB drives. Their 1 TB drives seem to be very reliable.
Digital camera Review: Appalling product
Summary: 1 Stars
After 8 months this harddrive crashed without warning. It won't post in bios, and Seagate wants a minimum of $ 770 to retrive data. They ask you to ship it back at your own cost, and take weeks to replace it under warranty (with the same bad product of course). A lot of people are experiencing hardware problems with this drive. It is an appalling product, from an appalling company with awful customer service. Avoid if you can.