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: Cheap Drives
Summary: 1 Stars
These are the worst drives I have ever owned. I purchased 2 of them and both have started to fail. Please not that these are newer drives and the firmware mentiond does not apply.
The drive cause my machine (does not matter which machine) to freeze up for 30 seconds or so at random intervals. Also one of the drives started to create a clicking sound.
Both are under waranty but on is only a week old so its going back to the store the other is going to Seagate for repair.
Warning! Warning! Warning!
Do not buy these drives they have a very high failure rate. Im sorry Seagate but you have gone down hill. Of the 20 or so drives I have for various computers (some are quite Old) The Seagate Baracuda drives are the ones I have the most problems with.
I will never purchase anothe Seagate drive again.
Digital camera Review: Cheap and Deep
Summary: 4 Stars
1.5TB for under $100?
If you are building your own PC these are a fine choice for your "cheap and deep" storage area. Buy them in pairs, mirror them (RAID 1), and forget about them.
Spend your cash on your Solid State Drive for boot and swap. Put your high-IO areas on a set of more expensive, faster drives.
But for archives? It's hard to beat a 1.5TB RAID 1 set for $190.
Digital camera Review: Click, click, crash
Summary: 1 Stars
After I used it for a week, it crashed. It's code was not one of the firmware codes that needed updating. I lost the receipt so my own fault for not returning or RMAing. It may have overheated cause I got it to work for a while by separating it from the drives in the cage more and putting an external fan on it. That and I'm seeing problems with that SATA port. Not to be too ambiguous, but I don't trust SATA as much as I used to.
So possible causes:
1) controller bad on the motherboard for that SATA port (seems unlikely, but one of the PS/2 ports went out)
2) SATA header for that port is bad. I tried the drive on a different port, but it may have been too late.
3) SATA 1/5 with SATA II drive? Not really compatible?
4) Seagate sucks (possible)
5) Drives too close in the cage, improper airflow, open case. (Heat damage)
So now I'm building a new PC with proper design, proper airflow, proper static precautions (no more popping drives out of the bag and handling without a wrist strap), hiqh quality motherboards, best cables I can find. That and buying only 1.2M MTBF drives from WD. No more data loss! Eventually RAID 1 and hot-swapping. I got a UPS too to clean the power in case that is a problem, and my new PC has well-spaced drives, 2 120mm high CFM fans, 5 hd 80mm fans in the middle bulkhead.
I don't trust SATA.
Digital camera Review: Concerns about Seagate
Summary: 3 Stars
I've recently become concerned about Seagate hard disk reliability and build quality
A 1TB model failed in less than 1 year
the drive started having booting issues and then made horrible
metal on metal sounds, and would start.. (head crash)
A Win7 upgrade went poorly using this 1.5T drive, \
file system was corrupted some how, and check disk wouldn't complete.
also reviews at newegg and other online sites confirmed similar reliability issues by other seagate custmers
a recent purchase of HP business desktops,revealed a warning about SeaGate firmware
needing an update.or drives would unexpectedly fail to boot.
i was forced to reformat the drive for safety and do a fresh Win7 install
and reinstall all my apps; 2 days of unnecessary work.
i purchased WD 2.0 Terrabyte as my primary drive, and forced the SeaGate to service as a
temporary backup drive. i have USB/Firewire MyBook drives as primary backup systems.
overall, I was quite fond of SeaGate until i experienced these problems
I'm going to move to WD as my primary hard drive, and wouldn't recommend using this
drive as a primary boot device until some evidence of improvement occurs...
Digital camera Review: Cost-effective and works well
Summary: 5 Stars
My 1.5TB Seagate Barracuda 7200 installed effortlessly and works well on my Windows XP system. I am buying a second one for backup purposes. This is a cost-effective solution for backups and 1.5TB is enough for all of my digital photographs, MP4 files, and the like.
I did not experience any of the firmware issues referenced elsewhere. Highly recommended.