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My last 750G Seagate lasted 0.9 years. This 1T Seagate lasted 3 weeks.
I'm in the IT industry and have had installed, swaped, formated hundreds of hard drives in my life. Hard drive failure is normal, and it's expected. What I've found out is that MTBF that manufacturers publish has very little correlation with reality, since reality is affected by factors such as temperature, handling, etc. What they publish is in a perfect laboratory environment-- not what people normally have at home. In my past, I have used Seagate, Maxtor, Western Digital, and Hitachi. Seagate...
[Seagate ST3500320AS Barracuda Hard Drive 500GB, 7200rpm review can be read at Amazon.com]
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01/17/2009
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I believe problems are resolved !
NEVER SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED:
I've watched the issue with these drives carefully for about 2 months. It looks like Seagate solved the problem and that a vocal few were ever really affected. By few I mean relative to the thousands sold. And I am not defending Seagate. This whole fiasco was unacceptable.
MY SYSTEM:
I picked up 8 of these drives. I'm running them in 4 separate DLink DNS-321 RAID boxes. I've copied about 4TB of data back and forth across them for days. My onl...
[Seagate ST3500320AS Barracuda Hard Drive 500GB, 7200rpm review can be read at Amazon.com]
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12/06/2008
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Seagate junk, horrible tech support!
Just read all the other 1 star reviews here and on other sites (rhymes with "egg"). As everybody has written, there is a serious problem with these drives. Besides the DOE and early failures the most reported problem is the freezing. I bought 3 of these for my HTPC and whenever I play anything (VIDEO_TS, mkv, avi, divx...) I consistently get after 3-5 minutes freezing for about 1-2 minutes. It is very annoying in a HTPC but in a RAID this spells disaster. The worst part of this is that Seagate i...
[Seagate ST3500320AS Barracuda Hard Drive 500GB, 7200rpm review can be read at Amazon.com]
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92%
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Amazon is shipping CC1H drives, and they're awesome.
Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?) This review is from: Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5 TB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s 32MB Cache 3.5 Inch Internal Hard Drive ST31500341AS-Bare Drive (Amazon Frustration-Free Packaging) (Electronics) 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...
[Seagate ST3500320AS Barracuda Hard Drive 500GB, 7200rpm review can be read at Amazon.com]
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01/23/2009
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I wish I could give it zero stars - these drives are STILL faulty as of Jun '09!
This review is from: Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5 TB SATA 32 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Hard Drive ST31500341AS (Electronics) If you do NOT value your time, money or data - then I highly recommend this drive. For everyone else - STAY AWAY!
As I said in the title, I truly wish I could give this drive 0 stars, and 0 stars for Seagate's support procedures, too (emphasis on procedures - I have nothing against their support reps). I've used dozens of hard drives from many dif...
[Seagate ST3500320AS Barracuda Hard Drive 500GB, 7200rpm review can be read at Amazon.com]
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07/08/2009
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Frightening mess these drives are
Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?) This review is from: Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5 TB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s 32MB Cache 3.5 Inch Internal Hard Drive ST31500341AS-Bare Drive (Amazon Frustration-Free Packaging) (Electronics) Update Review on September 22, 2009 **** 4 Stars
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At the beginning of this year, I wrote a scathing review of t...
[Seagate ST3500320AS Barracuda Hard Drive 500GB, 7200rpm review can be read at Amazon.com]
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01/21/2009
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Horrible freezeup problems, no solution for Mac OS X owners
This review is from: Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5 TB SATA 32 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Hard Drive ST31500341AS (Electronics) This hard drive has a well-documented problem with freezing up, sometimes locking up your entire system. There's a firmware fix available--ONLY IF YOU BOOT INTO DOS. If you run Linux or Mac OS X, you're out of luck.
[Seagate ST3500320AS Barracuda Hard Drive 500GB, 7200rpm review can be read at Amazon.com]
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01/03/2009
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A good 1TB drive choice
This review is from: Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1 TB SATA 32 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Hard Drive ST31000333AS (Electronics) UPDATE: A newer generation of this drive, the 7200.12, Bulk/OEM version, has been available for a while now and has better performance in terms of speed and power consumption. So that's likely a better option.
ORIGINAL REVIEW:
As of now, this is the state of the art Seagate 1TB drive. It uses just three drive platters (the thing that l...
[Seagate ST3500320AS Barracuda Hard Drive 500GB, 7200rpm review can be read at Amazon.com]
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Works fine after applying firmware update
Update: I wrote this review before a firmware update was made available and my comments reflect the situation at the time. When the updates were made available, I flashed my 5 drives and they've been working fine ever since. I'd change the rating to a 4 star if the editor allowed.
I and many others have been experiencing serious problems with these drives including:
* dropping out of RAID configurations for no apparent reason
* being ejected from a RAID configuration...
[Seagate ST3500320AS Barracuda Hard Drive 500GB, 7200rpm review can be read at Amazon.com]
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91%
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Updated firmware now available!
Here's the "consumable" snippet from an email that was sent to tech support/sales/AE's, etc.:
Seagate 1.5TB Customers,
Some Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB hard drives may show uncharacteristic
operation when used with Mac and Linux operating systems in multi-drive
configurations. Users may experiences pauses in video streaming applications
or a dropped drive from RAID arrays. Customers seeing these symptoms should
contact Seagate Technical Support for a...
[Seagate ST3500320AS Barracuda Hard Drive 500GB, 7200rpm review can be read at Amazon.com]
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11/20/2008
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