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: Best of the Best
Summary: 5 Stars
Out of the many makes of drives, Seagate is the only one who still offers 5 year warranties and they do not pro-rate their warranty like the others recently changed policy to. This drive has all the room you need, it's quiet and it's fast, in SATA II mode (AHCI). I highly recommend most any Seagate product as they function with little issues and they are supported by Seagate with little hassel. 8 cents a gigabyte is rather cheap.Digital camera Review: Better than expected, even after shipping "issues"
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm bought three of these for use on my dns-321 (two for raid 1 and a spare to rebuild if one fails). After updating the firmware on all three drives (from sd17 to sd1a) and on the dns-321 (to support the 1.5T drives), I've had no issues. I was a bit worried about buying these, but they are running fine.
I got these from Tiger and they shipped them without packing material so the drives were banged up. What am I gonna do except try them out and hope for the best? Those packers at Tigers are idiots.
I also have a dns-323 that I will use once they get the firmware out for the 1.5T drives. If my seagates hold up for another month, I'll buy two more of these drives.
Gary
Digital camera Review: Beware
Summary: 1 Stars
I thought I owe this to the buying public and not last to Seagate.
I have ordered two of these drives so far from Newegg because they do not charge tax. (or shippig).
Both drives failed in exactly the same way. Made 4 partitions 500 300 300 320, and after installing a clean Windows XP 64 I went on to format the partitions.
The third partition comes back 250 empty 50 used (???) and the fourth partition comes back operation failed could not format.
On the replacement the exact same thing happened, I believe one cylinder is from a bad batch.
The second time I ran some diagnostic utilities, that clearly stated the 50 GB as "bad" and the fourth partition outright I/O error.
I asked Newegg, and the answer was that they are getting back quite a lot of these.
I am sure that eventually once it works it works, but you may expect to budget some extra time and aggravation energy to install OS repeatedly and then send the damn thing back.
Now I am ordering one from Amazon, and will see...
Good luck, apparently it is needed for this drive.
Digital camera Review: Buy something else
Summary: 1 Stars
Seagate claims they fixed the problem. Based on serial number they say there is no problem with my drive. However, sometimes the drive will not get detected on boot. I'm going to return it since it is obviously still defective.Digital camera Review: Can you trust this drive to work? I don't think so.
Summary: 1 Stars
I bought for of these drives for my Drobo and then added a fifth several days later when I started having problems. I wanted to believe it was just one of the drives in my array failing and not an issue with every drive. After all, Seagate wasn't communicating anything in response to the thousands of inquiries I discovered in retrospect. Once it became obvious there was something seriously wrong with this drive and those failure lights would continue on my Drobo, I attempted to quickly move off the mass of data I had moved over - but I didn't beat the clock. I woke up the following morning with a catastrophic array failure on my Drobo.
Needless to say I sent these drives back. At that point Seagate still hadn't claimed any issues (though Drobo had posted an alert by then, essentially saying "we know there's something wrong with these drives and if Seagate won't admit it, we will advise our customers directly to not use them").
I used to exclusively buy Seagate hard drives. After having lost half a terabyte of highly valuable data I cannot ever imagine buying another from them. It's one thing to have an issue; it's entirely different to spend months pretending it doesn't exist. I've since moved to Western Digital Green 1TB drives that run much quieter and cooler. They also seem to work extremely well, with no failures so far.
My recommendation is to really think hard before you buy any drive model that has any history of failure, even the company finally owns up and provides a potential firmware patch. This isn't like a video or ethernet card or any other device - it's the place you store your most valuable information. Don't trust it to just any hard drive and don't just buy on hard drive size and price alone, or you'll regret it. I still do.