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: Died after 1.5 months of use.
Summary: 1 Stars
Started clicking right after Amazon's return period ended. Won't ever buy a Seagate HD if I can help it. 1.5 months to failure - after VERY limited use.Digital camera Review: Disappointed In Seagate
Summary: 1 Stars
Seemed like a deal as far as Gigabytes per dollar and thought Seagate was the most trustworthy. This is the first drive I've ever bought that arrived DOA. On power up, there was a telltale click (the click of death?) every five seconds or so. Whole system went dim on first power up. After reboot, it was resistant to formatting etc.. Refused a full format but finally accepted a quick format but then it just disappeared off the radar entirely. Long Diagnostic with Seagate's latest version of SeaTools revealed that the drive was indeed a dud. Very disappointed in Seagate. When these companies get to the top, they always seem to turn to cutting costs to maximize profit and I wouldn't doubt that this is what happened here (especially with this economy.) In this case, I believe it was at the price of their previously fine reputation. If Seagate cleans house and goes back to an emphasis on quality, perhaps, someday, I'll trust Seagate again. For now, though, I'm replacing it with a 2TB Western Digital as the other one of those that I have seems to be just fine so far (6-8 months.) First Toyota, now Seagate. Stop the unreasonable cutting of costs already. There are some things you just can't skimp on.
Digital camera Review: Disappointing
Summary: 1 Stars
I purchase 4 of these drives over the period of a month. They all have under 100 hrs of use and only one is still operational with substantial errors and warnings from the S.M.A.R.T diagnostics on the drive. Working with the vendor is a challenge, they would like you to run their diagnostics but on dead drives nothing happens and getting to support without that is a challenge, still trying. Apart from that, the drive sounded like a great solution for storage but given the failure rate, I'm not happy or would NOT recommend them. At least if support was accessible, then you could work with that. Some of folks complained here about packaging, in my case the boxes arrived in very good conditions and the drives were well protected.Digital camera Review: Disappointing
Summary: 1 Stars
So far I have purchased 3 of these drives. 2 of them have gone bad within a week of ownership. The first was and is still running fine. It came with firmware SD37. The second came with SD17 and developed bad sectors immediately. The third came with SD18. Following Seagate's instructions, I updated to SD1A. Now it won't even finish Seagate's DOS testing functionality.
I guess I have to wait before I can use more of their drives. I hope they work out the bugs soon.
Digital camera Review: Doesn't work, don't waste your time get a WD
Summary: 1 Stars
I should have paid more attention to the reviews. I have a Windows Vista machine and installed and formatted the hard drive. I received an error and then spent time researching how to fix it. I finally gave up, returned the drive and got a Western Digital. It installed and formatted perfectly on the first try WD1001FALS.