Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST31000333AS 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive

Pros: NONE

Cons: I had a 4tb raid and 2 of them failed in the first 3 months of having the drives then now 1 more has died and SEAGATE wont warrent them. I guess i will never buy there products ever again !!!

Other Thoughts: STAY AWAY !!

Pros: When it worked it worked fine

Cons: This is truly a bad drive. I have this thing flashed to the latest firmware that was supposed to save the drive but it still has issues. It's extremely frustrating to lose this much data.

The drive will come back to life if you restart the computer or simply pull the power to the drive and reset but any sort of transfers will kill it within a few minutes.

Not only is the drive unreliable, it runs hot. In the same case, this drive will run at around 40C when my samsung F1 1TB runs at 27C

Other Thoughts: Avoid this drive.

Seagate has gone down the gutters. Samsung and WD for me now on.

Pros: 7200 RPMS

Cons: Died after a year of use

Other Thoughts: Sent it into Drive Savers, said it suffered from a Sever Electromechanical failure & that the PCB was fried. They do not think a spike, surge or lag caused it.

Pros: Good drive while it lasted

Cons: Had a RAID volume fail and thought sure it was the controller - never had a HD go out in just a couple months before.

Other Thoughts: No return after 30 days - need to check Western Digital

Pros: This is my middle level backup drive. I have a raid 0 for the system and files; then this drive for daily incremental backups; then an external drive for monthly backups. all seagate... maybe I'm brand biased. anyway, the drive worked fine with tons of files thrown at it. large files, small files, many, few etc. no problems whatsoever. silent drive too.

Cons: I'm using almico's speedfan to keep an eye on temps and smart, and the tests come back iffy on the fitness chart. but there are no system errors or anything of sorts. temps now on this drive are 35C (3 below the MB and 4 over the raid drives...), the max was 46C probably during the initial backup. not bad, but not too cool either. very airy case, antec p182.

Other Thoughts: I hope it lasts.
I hope seagate will come back to its shine; they got a real beating in the beginning of the year; the other day I dug out my drive from 1992 and it's seagate :)))))) I bet it still works :)

Pros: High actual space to advertised space.
93% of advertised space.

Cons: None really, not expecting any either.

Pros: Big space and low cost. When they work, they're also very quiet.

Cons: I have bought 4 of these drives, and 3 of them have failed within seconds to hours of on-time. I initially bought 2; one was DOA, the other developed bad sectors. I've RMA'd one, and the replacement I bought is still working OK. I bought one more to replace the one with bad sectors and it lasted just long enough to write a partition table and then started making croaking noises and now won't be recognized by the BIOS.

Other Thoughts: When the last of these drives I bought failed, I went to Best Buy (I was in a hurry) and bought a Western Digital 1 TB drive for $30 more, and it's worked like a charm from the start.

Pros: lots of space to save info great for some extra space that was much needed.

Cons: make sure you have contecting wires for comp mine didnt have any had to buy :(

Pros: cheap 1tb hdd. running this on my quad core as secondary hdd

Cons: not 10,000rpm

Other Thoughts: i have heard alot of people getting this DOA or going bad but been good to me since i instlled it a few months ago. no problems yet

Pros: It quiet you do not here the platters running I can actually gigs of information onto the hard drive without hiccups. Fast enough that to retrieve information when i need it.

Cons: none yet and hopefully won't have any.