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Seagate has long been both an innovator and a crowd-pleaser in terms of data storage technology. The new ST31500341AS is the latest in a long line of Barracuda drives, with a storage and speed seldom seen. Designed with noise- suppression engineering and state-of-the-art speed and power this 1.5 TB powerhouse offers a brilliant combination of technology and low cost of ownership. Idling at only eight watts, this drive delivers up to 43% power savings over earlier generations without sacrificing performance.
When supported by the latest firmware updates, downloadable from Seagate once you've purchased your drive, this spectacular unit offers the best of both worlds -- top performance and a very small eco-footprint, so you know you have an industry leader AND are doing something good for the environment.
Download instructions are available under the "Product Tour" tab!
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Firmware issue causes Freezing in RAIDs
- Pros: The obivous pros are the high capacity, speed and cost of these drives. Unfortunately they're plagued by firmware issues that Seagate has yet to resolve. If you're using them in a high performance environment, I'd recommend you wait until these problems have been solved.
- Cons: These drives have a high tendency to freeze and time out for minutes at a time, which seems to make the RAID controller think they've failed. The controller then begins to re-optimize the data which slows down the RAID performance and puts your data at additional risk if another disk should decide to freeze up at an inopportune moment. Not a good feeling for someone who has a lot of essential data sitting on that RAID and needs it to be available. I'm a long time Seagate customer, and my other RAIDs are all populated with high-capacity seagate drives, and I've never had an issue to date. I'm hoping they'll sort this out with a firmware update soon.
- Other Thoughts: Seagate has somewhat reluctantly admitted that this issue exists, although consensus online that it's happening is clearer. Do a google search for "1.5 TB Seagate Freeze" and you'll find that several reputable sources, including Tom's Hardware, have articles on this issue.
- Pros: Huge Drive!
3 bought, no failures
- Cons: None at this time.
- Other Thoughts: Be mindful of the 2TB Logical drive limit. Unless you are using a 64-bit OS or one that is capable of GPT you will end up creating multiple arrays and spanning them inside windows if you have plans for a striped raid.
Stick with 1TB drives for your raid 0 needs.
| Model | ST31500341AS |
| Interface | SATA 3.0Gb/s |
| Capacity | 1.5TB |
| RPM | 7200 RPM |
| Cache | 32MB |
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- Pros: Good price.
- Cons: I bought 4 on sale. ALL were bad. One would never format. The others would seem to work but then started CLICKING loudly and would hang the systems they were installed in.
- Other Thoughts: I've had good luck with other Seagate drives. I almost never return things, but Newegg was GREAT in this case. Thanks!
Another hit with Seagate for me.
- Pros: Large drive for media. No issues with Windows 7 seeing them.*
- Cons: Wasn't free...
- Other Thoughts: Upgraded from two 320 7200.10 or .09 to these bad boys. I run my Gaming PC, HTPC, and Kids PC 24/7 with Barracudas and they've had no issues at all, ever. Transfered about 600GB of data to both of the drives with in 3 hours from the 320s. No errors, failures or corrupted data.
Great Drive
- Pros: Excellent price/performance. Longer warranty. Responsive.
- Cons: The newer 2TB drives are coming down in price, so it may soon make more monetery sense to get those instead. Warranty could be 5 years...? :-)
- Other Thoughts: Using these for almost 8 months in a SANS Digital external PM array. I have yet to have a single issue or hiccup.
| Model |
| Brand |
Seagate |
| Series |
Barracuda 7200.11 |
| Model |
ST31500341AS |
| Packaging |
Bare Drive |
| Performance |
| Interface |
SATA 3.0Gb/s |
| Capacity |
1.5TB |
| RPM |
7200 RPM |
| Cache |
32MB |
| Average Latency |
4.16ms |
| Physical Spec |
| Form Factor |
3.5" |
| Manufacturer Warranty |
| Parts |
3 years limited |
| Labor |
3 years limited |
Introduction
Seagate has long been both an innovator and a crowd-pleaser in terms of data storage technology. The new ST31500341AS is the latest in a long line of Barracuda drives, with a storage and speed seldom seen. Designed with noise- suppression engineering and state-of-the-art speed and power this 1.5 TB powerhouse offers a brilliant combination of technology and low cost of ownership. Idling at only eight watts, this drive delivers up to 43% power savings over earlier generations without sacrificing performance.
When supported by the latest firmware updates, downloadable from Seagate once you've purchased your drive, this spectacular unit offers the best of both worlds -- top performance and a very small eco-footprint, so you know you have an industry leader AND are doing something good for the environment.
Download instructions are available under the "Product Tour" tab!
Highlights
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Second-generation PMR Technology
With Seagate’s second-generation perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology, the Barracuda 7200.11 (ST31500341AS) offers a massive 1.5TB storage capacity and enhanced reliability by increasing data density while reducing moving parts.
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SATA 3.0 Gb/s Interface
The Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 (ST31500341AS) features the SATA II interface supporting up to 3.0 Gb/s data transfer rates, Native Command Queuing (NCQ) and hot-pluggable point-to-point connections for optimum performance, efficiency, convenience and flexibility.
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Firmware Download Instructions
Firmware Download Available from Seagate Drives with part number: 9JU138-300, 366 and with firmware revision SD17 and SD15 or SD18. Can be upgraded to the FW fix SD1A.
ST31500341AS 1.5 TB
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 firmware upgrade at discsupport@seagate.com or http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/about/contact_us/.
Please include the following disk drive information: model number, serial number and current firmware revision. Also, please describe your system, operating system and the application in use when the issue arose, and you will receive a prompt response with appropriate instructions.
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Quick Specs
| Brand | Seagate |
| Series | Barracuda 7200.11 |
| Capacity | 1.5TB |
| Cache | 32MB |
| Interface | SATA 3.0Gb/s |
| Form Factor | 3.5" |
| RPM | 7200 RPM |
| Average Latency | 4.16ms |
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Reviewed By: Nick on 11/11/2008
Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
