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Seagate ST31000340NS Internal Hard Drives
Customer Reviews for Seagate Barracuda ES.2 ST31000340NS 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
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Rob
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/27/2010 9:33:31 AM

Rating + 5 Still Good


Pros: Bought mid October 09, it's now the end of January 10 and have had no problems in a 24/7 environment of light use.

Did no update firmware, so it seems all the problems others are reporting are from the old versions. I hope...

One thing to note, for 2 of these 3 months I had it in a dock standing vertically which I'm sure stressed it's motors working against gravity but it's still running smooth now that I moved it into my system and horizontal.

Cons: They should have never bought Maxtor. From reading other Seagate drive reviews it seems like their engineering and quality control has dropped significantly.

Other Thoughts: For the past 4 years I've only been buying Seagate NS model number drives for my system and other computers I build. They cost more, but we were paying for reliability, and it's shown. I personally owned and used 9 of these model drives in 24/7 operation and have installed 4 others, mostly of the 750gb line. Without updating any firmwares we have had ZERO failures.

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BillyBob
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: more than 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/22/2010 9:44:04 AM

Rating + 2 On the fence on these


Pros: Enterprise grade (allegedly), reasonably fast and responsive

Cons: Firmware upgrade necessary on some batches, uncertain reliability, cost.

Other Thoughts: I initially selected these for one reason: Enterprise grade implied long-term favorable reliability. I both 3 on 08/2008 for a Raid 1 + hot swap on a mid-to-low use office server. By 10/2009, one has failed. This is way too short of a duration for an enterprise grade. I am currently looking into a replacement and have ruled out the 340NS.

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SLATE
Tech Level: high
Ownership: more than 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/20/2010 1:02:52 PM

Rating + 5 Enterprise quality drive


Pros: they are extremely reliable

But as you may know, all drives have a chance of failing. Fortunately, if/when they fail, you can replace them under warranty easily through seagate.

Cons: Pricier than their non-enterprise counterparts, but worth the difference (especially for power or enterprise users)

Other Thoughts: We use over 100 of these in our production environment. They fail on occassion, but these drives are under load almost 24/7. Failure rate has been about 3-5% in my experience. But again, these are in servers under load with tons of I/O in large RAID arrays.

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grumpy
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
1/16/2010 9:18:37 PM

Rating + 2 Ouch


Pros: Worked for 6 months. Used as a second drive in the machine for weekly backups of the main drive. Normally quite.

Cons: Died this morning, tried it in three machines, none of them can find it.

Other Thoughts: Pretty big waste of money for something that didn't have much time on it. Makes a heck of a noise, sounds like bearings are gone.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: more than 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/14/2010 5:41:31 AM

Rating + 1 Save yourself the grief of owning this drive


Pros: None, unreliable at best...junk. Would make a mediocre brick!

Cons: Bought two of these to use in a RAID 0 Array. Drive 0 failed within the first 90 days. Switched Drive 1 to stand-alone (0) and used the refurbed drive I received from Seagate as Drive 1, stand-alone. The original just stopped working yesterday. Seagate is indifferent. The drives are no longer found by the computer and just sit there and click while the heads re-seek. These drives are guaranteed for FIVE YEARS! I have had two already replaced within 9 months! If you rely on your data, DO NOT buy this drive.

Other Thoughts: I normally do not have the luxury of time to write reviews. I could have written a 1000 page essay in the time I've wasted rebulding the data lost on these drives. I have scrapped my 2 and replaced them with another brand.

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CES
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/12/2010 10:03:15 AM

Rating + 5 Does what it should


Pros: Works like it should.

Cons: None.

Other Thoughts: Decently fast drive, Works as advertised. This is my second one, and both are functioning just fine.

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CBRworm
Tech Level: high
Ownership: more than 1 year
1/11/2010 6:26:22 PM

Rating + 5 So far so good


Pros: Reliable

Cons: none yet, slow by todays standards

Other Thoughts: I have 5 of these in a raid 5 array that have been running 24/7 for just over a year other than an occasional weekend off for system maintenance. So far they have been perfect. With 5 drives my average sustained read throughput is just under 300MB/sec.

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Nichodeamus
Tech Level: high
Ownership: more than 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/10/2010 5:40:55 PM

Rating + 1 The reliability is a lie


Pros: It ran good for almost 2 years. It had above average performance and was very quiet.

Cons: It just spontaneously died today after nearly 2 years of light/minimal use. It was NOT in a raid array. It was just a single drive on the system, being used mostly for archival of my most important data.

Other Thoughts: I bought this drive back in Feb 2008, and now in Jan 2010, after being used rather lightly for the past two years, it has simply stopped working at all, and can't be detected by the SATA controller any more.

I bought this particular model (and paid more for it) because of it's supposed extra reliability. And as a result, I was storing all of my most critical data on it at the time it just failed. So I'll never buy another product from this company ever again, no matter how they might turn around in the future.

If you want real reliability, especially for your most important data, don't even consider this one. You'll get burned like I did. Might as well get something cheaper.

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N/A
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
1/7/2010 12:14:23 PM

Rating + 1 DONT buy this drive


Pros: Drive is large Seagate the company is JUNK they use to be good and have in the last year gone to the dogs

Cons: company has changed in past year and has gone to the dogs it does not keep its word it warrenty was the best and now its the worst read all the reviews Seagate has Changed DONT BUY SEAGATE ANY MORE

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TomN
Tech Level: high
Ownership: more than 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
12/30/2009 6:18:07 PM

Rating + 5 As good as it gets


Pros: I have had very good results using Seagate drives. I only buy the ES drives since all drives are used in a Raid.

Cons: I just built a new system I finally got a drive that failed after only two weeks. It was not a problem because it was in a Raid mirror and I had purchased a third drive just in case. Nothing lost.

Other Thoughts: I switch all our office systems to Seagate because Western Digital enterprise drives kept causing Raid failures which would then rebuild yet with no errors. This would happen anywhere from once a week to once a month in all six systems.

So I replaced all 12 WD drives with Seagate ES.2 drives and all problems disappeared. One finally failed last week after it had been spinning 24hrs a day for two years.

A lot of people complain and say "Never buy 'brandX' drives because they fail". Before you say that, check out all the reviews for all the other brands first. The truth is that they are all bad and you just have to pick a brand and hope for the best.

It would be nice if the failure rate was lower but when you consider the capacity of these drives and the extremely small tolerances required, it is surprising that they work as well as they do considering how inexpensive they are.

That is not much comfort if you lost all your data so you should always at least mirror you drive

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Piotras
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
12/27/2009 7:15:46 PM

Rating + 5 Good Drive


Pros: Great drive

Cons: None For now

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soulsofdeath
Tech Level: high
Ownership: more than 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
12/23/2009 9:45:02 AM

Rating + 5 Fantastic and Reliable


Pros: Speed, Capacity, Quiet, Speed, Price, Reliability, As well as customer service being up there with new egg which i consider there service the best on the planet, and i have ordered from them for over 7 years now, in all those years not one doa, (though they do need to package some of there more sensitive products just a litttle tighter.

Cons: NONE, ZERO, NADA, ZIP, ZILCH!!!!!!

Other Thoughts: Well as always these drives supposedly have a a life expectancy of over 10 years running around the clock which for the last year i have pretty much submitted them thourgh, I am a seagate partner but am still impartial, i am currently very disapointed that they dropped there warranty on oem drives by 2 years, I mean come on Seagate 2 extra years for 10 to 20 extra bucks which is actually to cover the box the cable and 4 little 3 cent screws, you need to put that warranty right back up and stand up just like you did when you raised it to 5 on all drives. in my experiance i have yet in 12 plus years of computer designing to have to replace a drive under warranty, heck my 1999 20 meg maybe 30 finally went bad after 9 years almost 10. So its oem, so what, stand up for the fact that you make a great drive, i'd like to put more but im limited to space. Once again great overall drive. Just for those out there i've had 2, 1-Terrabyte drives this model, both newegg in raid 0, running 24/7 1 yr.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: more than 1 year
12/21/2009 10:21:31 AM

Rating + 4


Pros: Quiet, relatively fast drives. Until today, reliable. Good value for the money.

Cons: One of two drives bought at the same time just failed after 14 months under relatively low usage; indeed, the drive that's got far more usage is still operating fine. Of course, now I'm nervous.

Other Thoughts: Some people in other reviews (not necessarily for this specific drive, but other Seagates) have mentioned that the warranty drops to 30 days if you return a failed drive. This is incorrect--the warranty on the replacement drive will either continue under your old warranty, or will be 30 days, whichever is longer. In other words, the only time the warranty will be 30 days is if your old drive is less than 30 days from the end of its original warranty when you return it.

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Greg
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
12/12/2009 10:12:05 PM

Rating + 3 One for two


Pros: One drive running fast, quiet and cool.

Cons: One drive was wounded on arrival. From the beginning, it made loud clicking noises whenever it would seek. After a couple of days in service it started generating SMART errors. CHKDSK reports numerous bad sectors. Expensive relative to similar non-RAID certified drives.

Other Thoughts: I purchased two identical drives to use in a RAID 1 configuration. One is working perfectly, the other was defective and is going back to Newegg for replacement.

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When RAID kills
Tech Level: high
Ownership: more than 1 year
12/8/2009 8:35:51 PM

Rating + 1 340 Series drives are garbage: Don't use in a RAID


Pros: Cheap, supposedly good perfomance.

Cons: I have had several of the 340 series drives, in capacities of 500GB and 1TB, both AS and NS, and invariably, at some random point, they fail out of RAID. This happens using Adaptec, Intel and NVIdia RAID. You can return them to Seagate, and they just send you out the same piles of junk. Google "Seagate RAID failure".
Fixing the firmware or RMA doesn't solve the issue. The problem is with this model and type. The 528 series don't seem to have this problem. STAY AWAY.

Other Thoughts: Seagate need to just own up that they made a defective product, and do a recall, before the bad publicity and inevitable class action suit destroy them.

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Pickstar
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
12/3/2009 11:15:57 AM

Rating + 5 Rock Solid Drives


Pros: Bought ten of these to replace 10 Samsung 1TB drives out of a group of 20 that were brand new and all failed within 2 weeks of installation. The Seagates have been flawless and I am about to buy 10 more to replace the other 10 Samsung, 4 of which have already failed. (FYI the Samsung have a 7-year warranty but it has been a month since I shipped the drives off to be RMAed. - Not through Newegg) I have RMAed over 10 WDC drives in the last 3 months and at this point I am a confirmed Seagate only buyer for SATA drives.

Cons: At $159 each compared to $89 for the desktop version they could be a lot cheaper!

Other Thoughts: Love Newegg, I spend thousands of dollars a month on computer memory and drives at Newegg. Delivery is always prompt although they could wrap the drives better. Received at least ten deliveries of drives over the last year where I was surprised something was not broken because of poor packing. Other than that Newegg rocks!

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
12/3/2009 5:57:40 AM

Rating + 1 Simple unacceptable


Pros: Lots of storage and generally inexpensive

Cons: I have 4 of these things in a Windows 7 Ultimate HTPC. One died on me last week. This drive was 6 months old. I sent it to Seagates I365 Service and the told it would cost me between $800.00 and $2000.00 to recover my lost data. So I pay $100.00 or less for a hard drive and fill it up only to have it fail within a year. Totally unacceptable. I am well aware of what a lot of you will say... you should never lose your data you should always have it backed up. While this is true... I thought I had a little time since this drive was new to scrape up the coin to buy another so I could image it and throw it in a drawer in such a case. I can't begin to tell you how disappointed I am in this product. I used to swear by Seagate products... I will never ever buy another one. Now they are going to send me a refurbished drive to replace the NEW one that failed.

Other Thoughts: This is KNOWN firmware issue and they seem to not be able to take care of it. Just so you know.. the drive started freezing and locking up my computer and then within a day or so it disappeared before I could get my stuff off of it.

Stay away from this 1TB and the 1.5TB drives... you have been warned

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Exotic Shrivel
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
11/28/2009 12:55:20 AM

Rating + 1 Awesome storage, dire consequence


Pros: This disk contains the possibility of massive storage at relatively timely read-rates. I was thoroughly impressed with the performance of these considering the size and the somewhat new-at-the-time large storage/good performance. I had half expected these drives to "fail outa da box" or "fodbox" but was happy to find that they didn't. Newegg did great in packing them for shipping unlike some of the products to date(although still to no ill effect, so as of no consequence).

Cons: I bought two of them. Within 5 weeks of ownership, my nvidia raid controller came up with a message indicating "a drive was about to fail". It took about 2 more weeks of these messages popping up for it to die-which was nice for saving the data(one-up for nvidia). The second one chugged along for another week and died as well. These are, mind you, "top of the line drives"...why shouldn't THEY choose how long they work for you? This happened in July of 09 and have yet to hear back from Seagate. During the wait for a reply, the two other 250gb drives I bought as boot drives to work in raid 0(both barracudas themselves) died within five weeks of each other. I am thoroughly dissappointed considering I have bought the Barracuda line since Seagate first released them(with zero problems, some still working to this day). Due to this, I have since moved to Western Digital and their Velociraptor series which I would recommend to anyone for it is what the Barracuda once was.

Other Thoughts: Perhaps the hard drive industry has been pushing too hard too fast to create bigger, better, faster disks. This is likely such a suck-child that was the mutated, mutilated offspring of what was once a great idea ruthlessly ravaged into submission as "newer, better technology". Disgusting.

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Ken
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
11/22/2009 7:28:49 AM

Rating + 5 Test results


Pros: one sturdy/heavy drive - seems to have more consistent data transfer rate than the non-ES version. A two-disk RAID 1 (mirror) with a ST31000333AS produced 72.9 MB/s transfer rate and 17.5 ms access time on HD Tune v 2.55 with a quad core system.

Cons: head movements transmit audible noise to computer case

Other Thoughts: One of the two non-ES drives in my RAID failed in 8 months - hoping this one will last longer.

The warrantee is 5 years on either the ES or non-ES version.

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jimi2f
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
11/17/2009 12:28:30 PM

Rating + 4 Good for RAID


Pros: At this point I only trust the Seagate ES.2 series drives.
If you look hard you will find info on Seagate that most of their hard drives have problems with synchronization. This is not a big deal unless you use them in a RAID array. The first generation ES were not much better than the consumer edition drives. They kept getting out of sync on my RAID1 arrays. I have been using the ES.2's in RAID1 for about a year now without any problems. My system locked up a couple of times and I had to force it down and it has always come back up with no RAID issues, before in the past when that happened I had to always rebuild on boot. Somtimes it would happen under normal conditions just rebooting.

Cons: none so far

Other Thoughts: In general I would not purchase any other Seagate drives at this time. Remember you get what you pay for,and just about any other computer component can fail (except maybe the main board) and be recovered from, but the hard drive is the most important part of a computer. I work in computer repair and see lots of failed cheap hard drives. Do yourself a favor and buy good quality, It's cheaper and less hassle in the long run.

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former storage newb
Tech Level: high
Ownership: more than 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
11/12/2009 3:01:47 PM

Rating + 4 head crash 1 year


Pros: Nice drive, fortunate for me. Nice manufacturer 5 year warranty too.

Cons: Drive head crashed just a little bit over the one year mark.

Other Thoughts: If you don't want to lose data on head crashes I highly recommend a back up solution not involving hard drives. Good luck!

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dubster3
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: more than 1 year
11/11/2009 5:38:53 AM

Rating + 4 Pretty Good Drive


Pros: We have been using these drives in external cases mostly for weekly backup of our data, but have used some in servers as well. We have purchased 20 or more in the last year and have had about 10% of those be DOA, likely due to a manufacturer defect. However, the ones that have arrived in good condition have been very reliable.

Cons: The fact that some of them have arrived in non-working condition.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
11/10/2009 1:00:27 PM

Rating + 4 REMOVE JUMPERS!


Pros: Nice, enterprise-esque drive

Cons: Jumper settings defaulted to 1.5gb/s instead of 3gb/s! Why? Why? Just take them off!

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Jas
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
11/5/2009 7:11:33 PM

Rating + 4 firmware is ok


Pros: got 2 of these drives now and it seems the firmware issues that gave these drives problems have been solved

Cons: none that i can see.

Other Thoughts: great drive

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can't take it no mo
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: more than 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
11/2/2009 4:28:33 PM

Rating + 5 take a course, why don't you


Pros: Very good drive.

Cons: At this point it could be a bit less costly.

Other Thoughts: It's not the drive. Check power and data cable as well as host adapter as well as on-board I/O connector. Also, where is your backup or redundant drive? It ain't the drive.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/30/2009 11:55:52 AM

Rating + 1 loyalty ill-rewarded


Pros: Until it failed, it worked fine.

Cons: After about nine months of working fine, suddenly the bios doesn't detect any drive on the SATA cable. Research indicates I've been hit by a known firmware screwup. I paid extra for this drive, believing I was buying a premium quality, super reliable device. Now I find out the drive was doomed from the outset, and Seagate won't do anything at all.

Other Thoughts: Seagate's website has a data recovery section. Their quote is $1200 (unless I want it soon, in which case it's $1800). I've purchases Seagate drives exclusively since 1988, somewhere between two and three dozen drives by now. I'm feeling that my loyalty has been ill-rewarded. I'm going to quit skipping over the Western Digital reviews, and I'm done automatically choosing Seagate as I always have. Congratulations Seagate -- enjoy the profit you made on this drive while you drive away customers.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: more than 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/6/2009 4:01:39 PM

Rating + 4 Nice drive for raid arrays


Pros: Good drive for raid arrays. Enterprise/nearline drive with 24x7 duty cycle unlike other desktop class. BER rate of 10^15 gives usable array sizes (8-drive raid-6 gives ~6% probability of a bit error).

Cons: Could have 10^16 BER rate which is needed for such large drives. Could use support for 4KiB sector sizes.

Other Thoughts: Have 65 of these for the past 18 months only 2 failures. Just ordered 8 more. Would not recommend any larger drives than 1TB until BER rates get to at least 10^16. SAS version is higher performing and supports fat sectors (520,524,528byte).

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/2/2009 6:49:17 PM

Rating + 1


Pros: While they worked they were great

Cons: Had 2 of these since winter of 2008, one lost its formatting and i was unable to recover the data with software-- the second started clicking and now is not recognized by my computer. I have 7 hard drives currently in my rig -- 2 of them are old seagates and are rock solid, I've never had an HD failure before. Granted this is a small N, but i think the odds are too great to be mere chance-- two failures, within 6 months by the same harddrive model-- i am leaving seagate and joining the Western digital club.

Other Thoughts: If you look at seagates website this drive has 2-3 times the annual failure rate of their regular 1 tb drive-- i don't know what the ES would suggest... Worst part is-- i'm not gonna get these drives replaced for new ones cause i just wouldn't trust them, now i'm out $300 and 2 tb of digital media which will take a while to replace

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Mustang
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
10/2/2009 2:27:20 PM

Rating + 5 Excellent So Far


Pros: Quiet and reliable. I have this drive running 24/7 for the past year with no issues whatsoever.

Cons: Zero. Seagate has neer failed me.

Other Thoughts: As with enay hard drive you should ensure it has enough power and cooling.

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Stephanie
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: more than 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/23/2009 8:51:05 AM

Rating + 5 Occam’s razor


Pros: I have 6 of these in two separate Raid-5 arrays over 18 months without trouble off a 3Ware adapter.

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: When, after many months of operation, 2 out of 4 drives appear to fail within 24 hours of each other, take a step back and question the odds of this. The likely cause is a power connector or cable feeding the drive. Also, possibly, the Promise controller is at fault.

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cheesewright
Tech Level: high
Ownership: more than 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/22/2009 12:23:06 PM

Rating + 2 Junk


Pros: Fast, 5 Year Warranty. NewEgg service and shipping is the best.

Cons: I bought four of these drives for use in a Promise RAID array. After a year of continuous usage, two of them failed within 24 hours of each other. One had read errors that forced the controller to reset the drive repeatedly. ES drives are supposed to have shorter timeouts for I/O operations, so the controller doesn't have to wait forever. TLER doesn't work well on these drives. The other drive had the click of doom. I would recommend the Western Digital RE3 drives over this.

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
9/20/2009 1:33:57 PM

Rating + 2


Pros: Quiet and fast. 5 year guarantee.

Cons: Died in 9 months.

Other Thoughts: I hear that Seagate's Return Policy
is good. I will find out.

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bblank
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/16/2009 4:36:50 PM

Rating + 3 Questionable Reliability


Pros: The drive is very fast. Excellent warranty of 5 years.

Cons: I am running hddlife pro on my system. In the first week I used the drive, I have some serious doubt as to the reliability of the drive. The Raw Read Error Rate is 77, and the Seek Error Rate is 69 which is kind of high for the first week. I've dealt with Seagate in the past for other exchanges and they were very easy to work with. I do realize that a certain percentage of drives out of the box have errors, but I am hoping that it's just an issue with my drive, and not the entire production.

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n8isjack
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/11/2009 7:36:28 AM

Rating + 3 It Died, Otherwise Good


Pros: It worked pretty good for about 8 months. I had no complaints and had barely dented the capacity. I would rate this drive a little higher if it weren't for the cons below.

Cons: It died. By sad coincidence my backup failed too. Thats not this drives fault, but I can't give 5 eggs to a drive that died. I know it happens all the time, but its a first for me.

Other Thoughts: Have a back up no matter what drive you buy!

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Eric Sorensen
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/8/2009 1:01:33 PM

Rating + 5 No problems - which is all I ask.


Pros: Works good. No problems.

Cons: A little more expensive, but you get the 5 year warranty.

Other Thoughts: Does not come formated. Doesn't come with any cables or screws. And why do they always tout the "3GB per Sec" transfer rate of the SATA connection? It's a little misleading, because this drive writes at about 40 MB/second.

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BakoBoy
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
8/31/2009 12:58:25 PM

Rating + 5 Eggsellent Drives


Pros: We purchased 34 of these drives for use in a SAN environment and the 5 year warranty along with Seagates web site telling us that these are meant for Enterprise Storage (hence the ES in the model #), are what drove me to this model. We haven't had a failure yet and these are running in a production environment with 30 virtual servers running on them.

Cons: It's a little difficult to remove the jumper that limits them to 1.5GB/s transfer and get them up to the 3GB/s transfer rate, but I'm sure it's easier to take them off than to try to put them on!!

Other Thoughts: I only wrote this review because of the guy who thinks they are garbage. Hey, once in a while you get a lemon, maybe it was dropped during shipping?

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Loren
Tech Level: high
Ownership: more than 1 year
8/14/2009 7:42:15 AM

Rating + 4 Warranty is important


Pros: As pointed out by another reviewers, ALL drives will fail eventually. I have owned several dozen WDs and a slightly smaller number of Seagates, plus a number of other brands, including Hitachi, Samsung and Maxtor. For the last year or so I've standardized on Seagate for one simple reason: A five year warranty. I've had a number of brands fail within months of purchase and I have had the same brands running for over five years without a glitch. Last year I had both a WD and a Seagate fail within days of each other. The difference was Seagate immediately replaced their drive with a new one at no cost to me because it was less than five years old. With the WD I was out of luck, as I was one month beyond their three year warranty. While I think the performance, quality and failure rate between the two are pretty comparable, why would I NOT take the two additional years of protection when the cost is essentially the same?

Cons: None significant.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: more than 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
8/14/2009 7:13:36 AM

Rating + 5 No Problems


Pros: Excellent performance, quiet, reliable, good warranty. The price has decreased so that it is half of what I payed in January of 2008.

Cons: None.

Other Thoughts: I have had this drive for 19 months now with no problems. It has been running 24x7 during the entire time recording video from 3 TV tuners and streaming that video to a remote media extender. On average it has been storing about 10-15 gigabytes of data per day.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
7/25/2009 7:32:42 PM

Rating + 1 Like Playing Russian Roulette?


Pros: Warranty - and that's about it.

Cons: Let's just get it clear that you DO NOT want to buy this drive. Your data is the most critical component of your PC. I had this drive for 3-4 months before it failed. Shortly after I received the drive, the drive started emitting a strange noise whenever I would boot or shut it down. The drive was only in use for a couple hours on the weekends, so over-use or abuse is totally out of the question. I didn't think too much of the noise since it wasn't a "clicking" noise like the one most techs are very familiar with. Yesterday, the drive emitted the same "cyclical" noise over and over again at POST, and I instantly knew the drive had just failed. Do not take your chances with an OEM drive - just buy from the store since they will usually replace it before you have to haggle with the manufacturer. I picked up a Western Digital yesterday and I can't even hear the drive like I did this one when I bought it. I have always used WD with the exception of this one time and never had any issues.

Other Thoughts: Russian Roulette anyone?

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: more than 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
7/23/2009 2:17:21 AM

Rating + 5 No Problems


Pros: Have had no problems with these drives, have 4 RAIDED in a server that has been running for over 18 months now other than when the WD boot drive died on me.

Cons: NONE

Other Thoughts: I have burned through some computers in my time, since 2000 when I bought my first laptop I have had 6 or 7 laptops, 6 desktops and 3 servers using mainly Seagate and Western Digital drives, and with my own experience I have had 2 Seagates and 2 Western Digitals die on me. The first lesson i learned when saving data to any medium; if you truly want the data then it must be backed up. Spending $1,000 on a RAID sounds like a lot of money, but it is cheaper and much less stressful than losing data. BACKUP, BACKUP, BACKUP. These are hard drives they are not going to last forever no matter who makes them.

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Lone-Scout
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
7/21/2009 10:49:53 AM

Rating + 5 Great


Pros: Great drives - I'm running three of these in the NAS n5200 I bought from Newegg!

Cons: None

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dr.diesel
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
6/24/2009 4:08:01 PM

Rating + 5


Pros: Shipped with v6 firmware, no problem with HighPoint RocketRaid 3560. Better than normal newegg HD shipping.

Cons: None

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AnonymousOne
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
6/14/2009 1:12:34 PM

Rating + 5 Works great


Pros: High sustained speed. Plug it in and it worked. Great warrentee.

Placed it in a cheap external enclosure which died .. but the hard drive survived.

High quality.

Cons: none

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The Evil Mr. Jones
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
6/7/2009 1:39:50 PM

Rating + 1 Use At Your Own Risk


Pros: If you like playing Russian roulette with your data, this is the hard drive for you!

Cons: After bad experience with these drives (1 of 3 DOA, S.M.A.R.T. errors, etc). I relegated my 3 ES.2 drives to backup duty (and certainly not for my only backup!).

Then, a couple of months ago (some time after my earlier review) I learned that there was a firmware issue with these drives. I downloaded the Seagate utility to check them, and it said that they all needed new firmware. So I tried downloading the firmware update from Seagate, but it won't work because they are OEM drives. All of mine have RS01 firmware, which the Seagate updater won't update. Seagate told me I would have to contact the OEM or return them and buy non-OEM drives.

Too late to return at this point, I contacted Az*n (unfortunately did not buy these from Newegg). They do not have a firmware update and told me that I was basically out of luck. Like Seagate, they have lost a customer.

Other Thoughts: I have replaced these with Western Digital models and had no problems with those. I was a loyal user of Seagate hard drives for 11 years, but no more. Also, will never buy an OEM drive again. The extra money is money well spent, if for nothing else, to get packaging that can protect them from mishandling in shipment (mine were originally shipped with insufficient packaging).

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Avoid Seagate SATA's
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
6/3/2009 7:57:55 AM

Rating + 1 Stay Away


Pros: There are no pros.

Cons: I am a reseller who has much experience with these drives. I strongly advise all potential customers who value their data to steer clear of Seagate's SATA drives until they sort their issues out. The quality of these drives over the last 5 months has been truly horrible and believe me - it's not just the firmware issue.

Other Thoughts: Seagate have been less than open about their issues. As a former loyal customer who has built countless hardware RAID arrays with their drives, I am absolutely disgusted by their behaviour. Keeping your customers in the dark is not the way to run a company.

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Joe Douglas JR
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
5/22/2009 4:40:47 PM

Rating + 4 Blown Away... literaly


Pros: If your into airplanes taking off, this hard drive is for you.

It's THAT loud, even sounds like a jet taking off sometimes. I LOVE it. period

Cons: Had to purchase 18 speakers and 4 bass's to overpower the noise of the HD!! Incredible!

Other Thoughts: runs a little hot..

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HDave
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/18/2009 12:11:01 PM

Rating + 4 Update firmware before using or else


Pros: Fast, allegedly reliable (don't know yet though). Easy to upgrade firmware.

Cons: Do not ignore the firmware upgrade warning. Turn this drive on in a RAID array before the upgrade and YOU WILL BRICK THE DRIVE.

I just ordered 6 of these and all of them had firmware version SN05 on the white sticker. A quick check at the seagate website (listed in an earlier review), and ALL SIX SERIAL NUMBERS were flagged as requiring an upgrade.

Other Thoughts: Upgraded to SN06 and everything works. I noticed a jumper on this drive, but could never really find reliable information on what it is for. Apparently it is "factory use only."

I would have been totally hosed if it were not for NewEgg reviews...thanks everybody for the warning.

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LucFuture
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: more than 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/14/2009 4:14:43 PM

Rating + 1 Horrible experience


Pros: Somewhat fast, claimed "server class" vibration reduction/continuous use.

Cons: Failed in less than a year. RMA'd both drives in RAID array with seagate and they sent me back two different models (one was the SV35). All I wanted was two es.2 drives, the ones I paid a premium for. Drives of different models will not work/perform well in a RAID configuration. So far I have spoken to 3 reps to no avail (horribly arrogant and stubborn). They claim I sent in an SV drive even thought their own data recovery department has confirmed that both were in the same array and both were es.2 drives. They say my serial number started with 6QM when it actually started with 5QM (I have correspondence with their data recovery team confirming this). Seagate's 5 year warranty is worthless if they can't even replace them with the correct drives.

Other Thoughts: Can't see buying another seagate product. I used to swear by them.

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Lee in KY
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/7/2009 7:57:44 AM

Rating + 3 Upgrade Firmware ASAP!!!!!


Pros: Seagate has a history of making quality products. This drive is inexpensive, quiet, quick & reliable - if patched.

Cons: There is an acknowledged problem with the firmware of this hard drive, and others in the 7200.11 series. More information can be found here:
http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207931&NewLang=en

Bottom line - Seagate has a patch available but if you do not patch this hard drive, you may be purchasing a Seagate Brick.

Other Thoughts: Sending this hard drive back to Seagate after you encounter a problem means data loss. Please upgrade the firmware and save yourself a headache!

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McFrezzers
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/5/2009 2:32:12 PM

Rating + 5 Fast, Cool, Quiet.


Pros: Fast, Quiet, (no read/write chatter like some of the consumer level Seagate Drives). I own 2 of these and 2 750GB ES.2 drives from a previous purchase. None have failed yet...

Run in a vertical tightly packed raid with 1TB drives from other brands, these were always cooler to the touch, though I realize that's not very scientific.

Cons: Expensive

Other Thoughts: You have to think about the expense this way. Companies hate RMAs, therefore the drive is designed to fail after the warranty expires. You're really paying the extra money to have a 5 year drive instead of a 3 year drive.

If you're running a raid 5 or 6 with 4-8 drives don't bother paying the money. If you're running something bone headed and risky like a 2 drive Raid 0, then you may as well spend the extra money for that 5 year gamble.

These almost always come with the 1.5GB/s limiter on. So remember to take that off if your MOBO supports it. For me it was the difference between 65MB/s and 106MB/s.

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NTF
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
5/2/2009 8:58:15 AM

Rating + 5 Nice!!


Pros: Its an awsom driver it runs great, i have had no problems with it, its great to compile music, home videos, and to back up movies. i had filled it up in less than a month and plan to get one or two more soon.

Cons: the only thing i have to say thats bad about it, is it took me a couple of hours to figure out how to format the driver (runing windows XP media center).

Other Thoughts: its a great driver, and i would recomend it to any one...

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/19/2009 11:43:32 PM

Rating + 4 FYI, still at SN05 firmware on the 1TB ES.2 drives


Pros: Easy enough to upgrade the firmware to SN06

Cons: ...but why isn't SN06 the default by now (18 April 2009)?

Other Thoughts: Just bought 4 of the 1TB ES.2 drives. UPS shows drives shipped from Newegg's Memphis, TN location. Each drive was well packed in bubble wrap around the plastic "shell" containing the drive. The label on each drive said SN05 firmware, confirmed by running the vendor's firmware upgrade utility.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/17/2009 9:30:08 AM

Rating + 1 Bad firmware


Pros: Enterprise class drives for a seemingly reasonable price

Cons: The shipping firmware does not work.

I bought these drives to set up a 12-drive RAID6 array using an Areca ARC-1680ix-24 card.

With the shipping firmware, one or more drives would fail within an hour due to massive numbers of time out errors. Even the latest firmware at this time (SN06) leads to at least 10 timeout errors per drive per hour (but so far not enough to cause the drive to be marked as failing).

After doing online research, I found that I am not the only one to have this issue. This is obviously not one bad batch of drives, as mine are from at least 3 different production lots.

Other Thoughts: Seagate support is quite a pain. So far today I have been on the phone for nearly 3 hours, and appear to be no further towards a solution.

I think Seagate needs some better (non-technical) training for their help-desk personnel. Of the 5 people I have spoken to today, one seemed totally incompetent (and managed to hang up with me) and one was extremely argumentative and claimed there was no way Seagate could possible have a faulty firmware.

I did finally get put in touch with a firmware engineer who has offered to send me an internal build of the next firmware (which he acknowledged was built to handle some time out issues with RAID cards).

Hopefully Seagate will get this fixed soon. I have been a long time Seagate customer, and prior to this model I have had only one Seagate drive die on me (and that was in 1997).

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JP
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
4/14/2009 4:47:23 PM

Rating + 2 Terrible Drives, Decent Warranty


Pros: Easy to return when they die.

Cons: They die. In 1 year three of the five I bought have died, and I am expecting the others to go the same route.

Other Thoughts: I bought 5 drives, 4 for a raid and one as a backup. I have had 3 die in the last two months, so I am experiencing a much shorter MTBF than advertised. Go with Western Digital.

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Usually Dead
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
4/13/2009 7:47:02 PM

Rating + 4 Bought Two, One Died


Pros: Very large and fast. RAIDs easily.

Cons: This series of drives seems to have a lot of defective units.

Other Thoughts: I bought two of these and RAID'd them together as a single 2tb array. I'm very satisfied with being able to create such a huge volume so easily. If that were all, I'd rate this product 5/5 no question. About a month after I first set up the drives, I began experiencing OS hardlocks, failed boots, and eventually one of the drives failed all together with the "clicks of death." This broke my RAID array and I lost a small amount of critical data. I had to re-install my OS, which caused me some downtime.
Now, when the failure happened, I would have given this product 1/5. But I found that Seagate has very good warranty support. They give me two options: 1) Send back the defective drive and get a new one shipped to me. 2) Pay a small fee, which covers approved packaging, fast shipping in both directions and ships out a new drive before I send back the defective one. I took the second option, and my new drive has been working okay since. Excellent warranty service upped my rating to 4/5.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
4/7/2009 8:47:40 AM

Rating + 1 Seagate Barracuda 1 TB


Pros: Product worked very well after installation and earned my trust for use as a backup of my very important information, videos, pictures etc.
I soon trusted it as my main source for saving all my data and not just as a backup.

Cons: Last week I turned my computer on and this drive I was using as a slave drive for all my saved files was not recognized. I removed the drive and tried two other computers to try and access the information on this drive to no avail. I lost years of information I had entrusted to this drive. What a sick feeling.
I received a RMA# from Seagate, but it cost me $13.00 to ship it to them. I paid for a new drive, now I will receive a refurbished drive from Seagate.
Don't like this deal at all.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
4/2/2009 12:12:52 PM

Rating + 4 2 out of 14 errors


Pros: Large capacity, cheap storage, good warranty.

Cons: 2 out of the 15 I have running in a RAID5 have failed.

Other Thoughts: Not sure if it is the firmware issue that has been mentioned. I've just advanced replaced with Seagate for the $19.99 to get back up and running before another failed. Purchase 15 in 7/08. One died in 11/08, another 04/09. 04/09 drive is firmware SN05.

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Nestor
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
4/2/2009 7:45:31 AM

Rating + 2 Bad Firmware, Bad Support


Pros: Large capacity, quiet for the size, decent prize per GB. Also, SeaGate's Exchange/Warrant policy is pretty good -- but it doesn't cover your lost data! They just ship you back a re-conditioned drive.

Cons: 3 out 5 SeaGate drives that I have purchased in the last year have failed and I needed to return them. Bad firmware is the culprit on the last one. If the drives fail almost immediately, no biggie. You can reinstall the OS and your applications. But this last one worked for 6 months and there was a lot of data on it. SeaGate only recovers data for a fee. I analogize the situation this way: Suppose I were a car company that made structurally unsound and defective hard drives. Then suppose that I offered to perform body work at a high price once the car was involved in an accident.

Other Thoughts: I've used SeaGate drives for many years. Generally, I was very satisfied. In the current race to come out with ever larger capacity hard drives, SeaGate is throwing quality control out the window. I will go with Western Digital drives from now on. If you buy this, update the firmware immediately, and use a backup service like Mozy so you can simply swap out the dead hard drive for a new one and avoid the frustration of being charged for recovery of your data.

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bdplaid
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
3/27/2009 6:14:55 AM

Rating + 2 Bitten by bad firmware


Pros: fast

Cons: bad firmware, causing drive to lock up.

Other Thoughts: If you have this drivem or want to buy one, be certain that you check its serial number and firmware to be sure it doesn't need an update. If you wait until the drive locks up, it's a major pain to fix, requiring a return to Seagate. Updating firmware before a lockup can be simple.

This the second Seagate in a month (different models) with which I've had trouble, so I'll be looking to WD and Samsung for next purchases.

Not happy this happened, to a drive with about 700GB of data on it.

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
3/25/2009 8:15:36 AM

Rating + 2


Pros: Big, cool, not loud at all.

Cons: having said that I would not buy another one of these again Ive had this for almost a month and it fails all the time. I know its not because of the encloser Im using because Ive tested it with other drives and it works fine. I dont get any clicking sounds but its going to get replaced soon before I lose that data.

Other Thoughts: IM going t hold off from buying Seagate for a while.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/12/2009 10:51:13 PM

Rating + 5 Works great!


Pros: Fast and unit I received was not affected by the Firmware problems reported all over newegg.

Cons: None

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Tad2020
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
3/4/2009 9:43:24 PM

Rating + 3 3 of 3 came with defective fw


Pros: Used to be very reliable. Big, pretty cheap.

Cons: Order 3 a couple of weeks ago, all 3 came with the bugged firmware SN05. I'm not going to try flashing them to SN06, I've heard that SN06 degrades raid performance severely.

I've had a sharp increase in failures with ones I've recently purchased. Least a 5% fail rate in ones bought within 6 months, while still <1% for all drives from order 6 months to 3 years ago.

Other Thoughts: I'm going to hold off buying any more Seagate drives for a few months. Going to wait till stocks of the defective drives are gone and there is a new model number thats know defect free.

The SN check claims that mine are not affected.
http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207931

I might get some WD RE3's instead later and either RMA these or use them for something unimportant.

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Sataboy
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/24/2009 11:51:44 PM

Rating + 3 Declining quality?


Pros: 1TB Enterprise drive from Seagate. I bought my first drive a year or so ago. So far very happy with it.

Cons: Just bought my second last week. It made an insanely loud high-pitched noise with chirping and grinding. I RMA'd it and hope it was just a fluke.

Other Thoughts: I've been reading about declining quality of the ES drives but blew it off. Hope this is just a fluke - I was considering ordering 1TB ES.2 SAS drives and now I'm nervous.

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NeweggCustomer
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/24/2009 1:15:16 PM

Rating + 5 Netgear ReadyNAS NV+ Drives


Pros: Drives worked on arrival.. No errors.. Thanks Newegg!!

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: Installed into a Netgear ReadyNAS NV+.. No problems to report..

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MJ
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/21/2009 7:15:47 AM

Rating + 5 Service Counts


Pros: Seagate advance replacement for 1 failed drive got me back up and running in 3 business days. The drive failed on Thursday, I played with it till Saturday night and then filed the claim on the website. I received the new drive on Wednesday.

I am running 20 seagate drives and in 6 years this is the only one that has failed. It was probably my fault, not the drive - I left it in a very hot environment with no ventilation and forgot about it for a week.

Cons: Seagate advance replacement costs $19, but that includes return shipping.

Other Thoughts: 8 x 1TB NS drives purchased between 11/2008 and last week. 12 x 500GB AS series drives running since 2003.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
2/20/2009 8:15:22 AM

Rating + 3 Time lost


Pros: Four drives worked fine for five months in a RAID0 configuration.

Cons: One drive dies Jan 22. I recover data from backups. I read about firmware issues here and call Seagate Jan 23. Techsupport closed due to weather part of the following week. Tech support recommends firmware upgrade to SN06 from SN05. I receive link for bootable iso on 2-02. The CD boots but fails to find drives on Dell T300. Trade emails with Seagate. Use an Optiplex 745 to upgrade firmware on each drive. Drive still fails. Seagate gives me an RMA on 2-10. Advanced replacement costs $20. Seagate does not accept American Express. So, I opt for ground and received a drive on 2-19. The replacement drive has firmware SN04. I upgraded to SN06. This drive has passed first badblocks test.

I expect to have the server back in service next week.

Other Thoughts: Should I trust my data to Seagate? I don't know. Reading the other reviews and my own experience doesn't instill confidence. Should I have thrown in the towel when the first drive died, purchased four Western Digital drives and had my server back up within a week? Probably.

For those that are interested, the SN06 firmware upgrade: http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207963.

BTW, I did not buy these from newegg, but thought I'd share my experience.

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An Elder
Tech Level: high
Ownership: more than 1 year
2/18/2009 6:00:54 AM

Rating + 5 Chill out!


Pros: Using this drive, we have deployed at least 15 servers running RAID 5 in 2009. The drive is large, quiet enough for a library server, and pretty darn resilent even after UPS played soccer with the box. (yes, boot marks were present!)

Cons: So far we have purchased approximately 400 of this particular drive and have had 1 DOA and 1 died during burn-in.

2 dead drives = 0.5% defect rate.

Not the 30-40% one poster mentioned. (Actual results may vary)

Other Thoughts: I agree completely with DE. ALL electronic manufacturers (yes, even Apple) have a few bad lots. In the 15 years I have been building machines, many manufacturers have come and gone; however, Seagate, Intel, Antec, Supermicro and Kingston will always provide a quality part at a fair price.

As far as Seagate returns goes, Register as a user, perform the tests and if you do get a failed drive all you have to do is go online and submit a claim. Easy as pie!

Backup, backup then backup again!

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DE
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/16/2009 4:31:34 PM

Rating + 5 Good Value & Performance


Pros: Nice storage capacity for the price, considering the above average warranty and performance. Great drive for high end PC's and workstations.

Cons: None noted in the five that I personally own.

Other Thoughts: I have been in the business for over 20 years, and every drive manufacturer has had issues at one point or another. Some with a few lots, others across an entire model line. Hitachi (IBM), Seagate, WD, SATA, Ultra IDE, SCSI, fiber channel, it doesn't matter. Bad drives can, and will, be received from the factory. Simply downloading and using the free manufacturer utilities will identify most of these issues, and is something I personally do before trusting any hard drive. Taking a few hours to acceptance test a drive by zero wiping the entire drive and running a full manufacturer's diagnostic on a drive, you can catch the majority of factory shipped defects and DOAs. Your mileage may vary, but this practice has saved me a whole lot of headaches over the years.

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knee deep in Iraq
Tech Level: high
Ownership: more than 1 year
2/16/2009 10:21:35 AM

Rating + 1 worked for only 1 year, then dead


Pros: Seemed to work...for a while anyhow

Cons: The drive lasted for only one year, now it doesnt get recongized by the BIOS.

Other Thoughts: This is my 3rd bad Seagate drive. I have personal seen 7 more Seagate/Maxtor internal and external drives die, to include their 2.5" Maxtor externals. I've been using Seagate since 1995 and resold them until 2001. As far as I am concerned Seagate is off the shelf until they fix their manufacturing issues.

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ItTechy
Tech Level: high
Ownership: more than 1 year
2/15/2009 6:25:58 PM

Rating + 5 Seagate 1.5 TB Value & Warranty


Pros: 1.5 TB for less then $200.00!
I have been an IT professional for over 25 years. I have paid this much for a less than a 400 MB IDE drive! Seagate is a quality product for its price, considering where we are with technology today, it is hard to complain about so much for so little of an investment.

Cons: Look VERY carefully; Seagte' SATA familes of perpindicular drives were all 5 year warranties when they were introduced, now to get the longer warranty the price has risen, and not just here, but everywhere.
Like all large drives, many systems' bios', etc., have issues with them, be sure you check your system specs. before purchase.
Last: All Hard Drives fail, some last years, some last days, fact of life!
I have replaced more Western Digital drives than Seagte!

Other Thoughts: Key Point: Many complain about performance, life span, compatibility, etc.
These drives, whether you purchase the one that is a bit lower in price with a 3 year warranty, or this one with a 5 year warranty, no company guarantees your data!
These are for HOME use, not SERVERS! A server class SATA II 1 TB drive runs no less than $400.00, and usually is more like $700.00! I deal with SATA servers daily, so these are a good value for the dollar!
If you want a large drive, and need the space these offer, and you understand the risks (that's why we say back your data!), you cannot go wrong with this drive!
If your waiting for W.D. to come out with one, hold your breath, and when it does we will see similar issues!
REMEMBER, always back your data!

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mad at seagate
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
2/15/2009 5:55:59 PM

Rating + 1 went through 13 of them only 3 works


Pros: Well only for the sake of Newegg I'd say that I'm always gonna stick with this excellent shopping site

Cons: I bought 13 of these 1terabytes drive and almost all of them died or crapped out in less than a month.

2 could not complete formatting (not quick format) and it took me 3 days to complete the batch.

Fortunately I had anticipated these failures and I didnt lose any critical data and the data I was trying to copy from some older 100gb-300gb drives, I did not delete any of these drives (PHEW!!)

Other Thoughts: Several of these seagate drives were verified on the Seagate website serial # verification as OK , BUT I could not format them!!

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Darrin
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/13/2009 1:34:24 AM

Rating + 4 Quiet and Fast


Pros: Drive is quiet compared to the one it replaced which was an older Seagate. Runs fast and I have not had an issue with a Seagate drive I've purchased here. It's great having so much storage space now.

Cons: None so far. Been running it for a about 1+ Weeks now

Other Thoughts: I've been buying Seagate for a very long time and have only had good experiences with their drives. Remember to remove the jumper on the back that makes the drive default to Generation 1 mode instead of generation 2.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
2/11/2009 9:02:19 AM

Rating + 4 FIRMWARE UPDATE AVAILABLE


Pros: Seagate has released a firmware update to fix the problem.

If you've already lost data, ComputerWorld (Jan 26, 2009; pg 6) reports that Seagate offers free data recovery from it's i365 business unit.

Go to http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207931to see if your drive is affected & download the update

Cons: n/a

Other Thoughts: Searchterms: bios firmware update upgrade fix broken problem failure

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
2/10/2009 6:32:33 AM

Rating + 1 2nd Drive Failure


Pros: When the drive works, the specifications are good

Cons: I am using the drives in a RAID array. When I got the drives initially, one failed when configuring the computer. Another drive failed just 6 months into use.

Seagate support was quite bad, requiring a lot of wasted time.

Other Thoughts: Seagate is not a quality company. We will not use these drives in our enterprise.

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db
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
2/1/2009 6:39:50 AM

Rating + 2 Failed in 3 months


Pros: Drive is very quiet, especially when it fails and is unplugged.
Access times seemed acceptable when the drive was functioning.

Cons: I purchased one of these drives in October 2008 along with a second identical drive that shipped with a Netgear ReadyNAS Duo, which is a great unit, by the way.

The drive that came with the ReadyNAS began giving SMART errors in early January and failed completely on January 29, for a total life span of about 3 months. Upon the drive's failure, the ReadyNAS locked up until I removed the failed drive, at which point the ReadyNAS came back up and is functioning on the redundant drive. The second drive I purchased is, thankfully, holding on for now. I will be purchasing a replacement drive from another vendor until Seagate can get their act together on this.

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Irate
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
1/30/2009 5:54:41 PM

Rating + 2 Seagate is History


Pros: Drives are very quiet.

Cons: Weird firmware. Seagate support is worthless. Regarding the firmware upgrades, it took them 2 weeks to respond. This is for their "special" Enterprise drive support. In the email, they said to go visit the webpage to determine if my drives were affected. Duh, they were. I put that in my request. The webpage says to contact Seagate--one big giant, useless DO loop.

Other Thoughts: Seagate is in such bad shape with all the problems with their latest drives that you'd be stupid to buy anything from them. There are common estimates of 20% to 30% failure rates. If you were planning on buying these drives for their "enterprise" grade reliability or support, forget it.

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building 20 @ msft
Tech Level: high
Ownership: more than 1 year
1/30/2009 5:37:50 PM

Rating + 5 We use these in our datacenter


Pros: Very good hard drives, we currently are running about 45 of these in our 3 SANs. We have had 4 failures so far, which under warranty have been shipped back to seagate and returned back to us.

Cons: Our 3 SAN's don't support 3Gb/s like a highend desktop can, so we only get okay bandwidth over our 10 gig links

Other Thoughts: Very reliable hard drives, and i have personally bought some for my machine at home, they are great drives

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crypto7
Tech Level: high
Ownership: more than 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/27/2009 7:15:37 PM

Rating + 5 Stop smoking crack, 1-star reviewers


Pros: Fast and quiet.

Cons: None so far.

Other Thoughts: These drives rock. Much faster than my 500 GB Maxtor 7H500F0 drives (which have 5-yr warranties like these, which Seagate honors) and work great in RAID 1 sets in Stardom ST6600 port-multiplied eSATA enclosures on 3 Gbps links to a HighPoint RocketRAID 2314. I feel comfortable having each of the 4 ES.2s that I own at >75% capacity for long periods.

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The Evil Mr. Jones
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
1/23/2009 7:52:32 PM

Rating + 1 Seagate, Fire Your Quality Control Department


Pros: Makes a nice doorstop.

Cons: I have been using Seagate drives almost exclusively for 11 years and had no problems until recently. Bought 3 of these, unfortunately not from Newegg. 2 for a RAID 1 and 1 for backup. One of the 3 was DOA and had to be returned.

The only way to get my system to POST with these drives attached was to hobble them with a jumper to limit them to 1.5 Gb/s. Two motherboards would hang at the point of detecting them without the jumper, and none would be recognized in an enclosure (which supports 3 Gb/s) without the jumper.

Three months later, one of the original drives started giving S.M.A.R.T. errors. Two days later, the replacement for the DOA one started giving the "click of death" sound and not being recognized.

These will be returned, naturally. But I will not trust the replacements with my data, so I'm basically out over $500.

Other Thoughts: Seagate quality control has been horrible lately. These drives replaced two other failed Seagate drives that were less than a year old; I sold the replacements for those since I wanted larger drives and an upgrade to enterprise class. This failure rate is unacceptable, especially in enterprise-class drives.

By the way, unless they completely gut their quality control and pronto, Seagate will not survive long in the current economy. Then what will the "5 year" warranty be worth?

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Rob
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/21/2009 4:32:22 PM

Rating + 5 So Far So Good!


Pros: Works as advertised. Put it in an external enclosure and am using E-Sata. This is my backup drive. Enumerated and installed without incident using generic drivers. Am running Windows Vista Ultimate 32 bit.

Cons: None, yet.

Other Thoughts: I'm done with Western Digital. Have had 2 My Books and my daughter had a passport....all died and Button Manager didn't always work. My last one was a 750GB USB/Firewire/E-Sata and the E-Sata never worked. Used the 1394 hookup, but took two hours to backup two out of my 4 drives. With E-Sata, backs up all four drives (full backups) in about an hour. My failure rate with Seagate/Maxtor drives has been less than half that of Western Digital products. Highly recommend this drive.

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dachronix
Tech Level: high
Ownership: less than 1 day
1/18/2009 7:35:56 AM

Rating + 1 Hardware problem now official


Pros: -

Cons: Seagate offically confirmed that a number of Seagate hard drives from the following families may become inaccessible when the host system is powered on:

Barracuda 7200.11
DiamondMax 22
Barracuda ES.2 SATA
SV35

check below link for more info

Other Thoughts: http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?Tab=search&Module=selfservice&TargetLanguage=selfservice&DocId=207931&NewLang=en

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sparkydctim
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/9/2009 5:19:35 PM

Rating + 3 Good drive or it was when it worked


Pros: Best drive for the money

Cons: It worked great for 4 months then it started clicking and
gave my WHS a fit.

Other Thoughts: I have 4 of these drives they are great if they last.
This is the first to go bad.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/6/2009 1:27:16 PM

Rating + 1 Died after 3 months


Pros: Worked great while it lasted.

Cons: Died after 3 months.

Other Thoughts: I guess this happens on occasion, but its never fun having to rebuild a system. Now I can't play crysis anymore as I have already installed 3 times...yay.

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dissonanceUS
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
1/6/2009 7:52:47 AM

Rating + 4


Pros: Running 5 of these on a LSI MegaRAID 8408E in RAID-5. No disc write/read errors yet and good performance. Have been running for ~6 months.

Cons: Did have 1 of the 5 I bought die within 2 weeks of purchase. Seagate warranty exchange went good, I just wish I would have received another new drive rather than a recertified one.

Disc initialization is quite a bit louder than my Seagate ES(1) 320GB drives were. Not a big deal since it only happens on boot when the heads align themselves.

Other Thoughts: No real problems. The one drive failure prevents 5 stars.

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Benford
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
1/5/2009 11:34:17 AM

Rating + 4 Is it just me?


Pros: The price puts this drive in the hands of those of us who normally could not afford it.

Cons: Did not come with a SATA cable - I assumed it would. It would be nice if this would have been noted in the product description.

Other Thoughts: None yet.

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Lifespeed
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
1/4/2009 12:20:48 AM

Rating + 5 Great enterprise spec HDD


Pros: Lots of storage, fast, 10e-15 bit error rate, NCQ, SMART, and all those other buzzwords that make it work better and faster with a modern RAID card. And the firmware is upgradeable if needed.

Cons: I bought 5 of these back in July. The firmware had some minor problems. I did not lose any data, but upgrading from FW version SN04 to AN05 greatly improved the performance and made some mysterious bad sectors disappear. I get 330/290 MB/sec read/write performance, easily 3 times a single drive.

Other Thoughts: I use these with a Highpoint 3520 SAS RAID card in RAID5 for an HTPC/media server. I love the performance and reliability. I expect they ship with SN05 FW today, so no worries for single drive users. If you use an SAS RAID card (using SFF-8087 to SATA fanout cable or similar) you should use AN05 FW. SN05 is for SATA connected drives, probably the more common use. Don't forget to remove the jumper to enable SATA II speeds.

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Camilo
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
1/3/2009 1:12:42 PM

Rating + 1 wow


Pros: Lots of space.

Cons: Died on me after 2 weeks of operation. Which sucks because I moved all me media to it. I lost 528gs of entertainment.

Other Thoughts: Should have stuck to Western D.

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
1/2/2009 3:41:10 PM

Rating + 5 nice hd


Pros: I bought this on a steal-deal from a local computer store for $99.99 it was a great deal seeing as how its now up to 180.
It loads quickly, large storage capacity, and runs pretty quiet.

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: Its pretty bulky before buying make sure you have room in your case.

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N/A
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
12/29/2008 1:18:32 PM

Rating + 4 Solid


Pros: I run a small office and now I am beginning to use all Raid 5. I went with NS for better vibration specs. I am trying to use these in all my computers and then have a few on the shelf as spares. Out of 10 or so drives I own 1 was DOA. No big deal, i had a spare.

Cons: uhhh, other than 1 of 10 DOA, no downside.

Other Thoughts: After 30 days return via guest user on the Seagate site. No big deal. i did that today.

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ColoradoSkier
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: less than 1 day
This user purchased this item from Newegg
12/18/2008 7:16:37 AM

Rating + 1 Product DOA


Pros: None

Cons: Product arrived DOA and simply made repeated clicking sounds

Other Thoughts: I hope the replacement works. I bought Seagate on the recommendation of others--my other drive from a different manufacturer has never had a problem.

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Inacurate
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
12/10/2008 6:35:19 AM

Rating + 5 Solid Performer!


Pros: Have owned for six months, this was my second TB drive, and my first Seagate for a while. I have been happy with the performance, I had almost 800GB copied over to it on the first day to test it and didn't feel the need to delete the backup until very recently. Enterprise version boasts better reliability, which to me is the only factor with storage capacity this high.

Cons: None.

Other Thoughts: The price at the time was two and a half bucks, looking at the price now and what else is available on the market, I don't understand why the price isn't lower. I would rather purchase the "enterprise" versions of these high capacity drives for a better peace of mind.

I bought their 1.5TB drive a few days ago, even with all of the problems reported, because I know Seagate will work them out. That or with Newegg's Return policy, I am covered 100%!

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GOTHOSED
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
12/9/2008 9:50:05 PM

Rating + 1 What happen to wrapping the Drive in BubbleWrap????


Pros: Good price.

Cons: Arrived in a box with my MSoffice, and brown paper folded over. Harddrive still in the static sleeve. Absolutely NO PADDED WRAP.

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psj6400
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: more than 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
12/6/2008 5:54:07 PM

Rating + 5 Own Nine of Them


Pros: I have not had any drive failures in the 1+ years I have owned them. As always, newegg rocks, has the best customer service and the most reasonable prices.

Cons: None, except the price. I guess you get what you pay for though.

Other Thoughts: Over a period of 1+ years, I have purchased Nine of these drives for my two raid 5 servers. The data that these drives hold is very important to me and my family, so I went with the ES2 version expecting good performance and reliability. Have not been let down and will be purchasing more in the future. Cannot wait for the 2TB ES2 Versions to come out.

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tree
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
11/30/2008 5:52:56 AM

Rating + 5 Good drives


Pros: Very good drives solid performance and reliability for enterprise environments.

Cons: none

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/25/2008 9:54:29 AM

Rating + 1 Stay Away


Pros: Promise of RAIDrerady
See below

Cons: FIRMWARE:

Seagate had problems with firmware on early drives, will give errors with Adaptec 5405,

The firmware flash to correct this Seagate bug did not apply, drive killed

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tony4d
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/17/2008 9:47:07 AM

Rating + 5 Eggcellent Drive!


Pros: Seagate quality, fast, big, quiet.

This runs in my home server 24/7, it has been great and very quiet.

Cons: I had to rma this a few days after I got it. The drive was making obvious clicking sounds and then it reported a smart failure. I don't think its too big of a deal and doesn't really reflect on the product quality. You're always gonna have a few bad eggs. The RMA drive has been running quiet ever since I installed it.

Other Thoughts: Newegg rocks :)

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Ben
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/12/2008 11:24:19 PM

Rating + 5 Good


Pros: Reasonably quiet.
Fairly quick.
Priced reasonable for size.

Cons: None.

Other Thoughts: Running this in a home server 24/7 and it hasn't complained one bit.

Benchmarks are impressive. The only SATA drive I have that's quicker than this one is a dual drive RAID 0.

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Lone Samurai
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
10/12/2008 6:38:23 AM

Rating + 3 Mutiple Reallocated Sector Counts after time


Pros: Larger disk space. Pretty fast drive.

Cons: No major S.M.A.R.T. errors reported yet, however 8 out 8 of these Segate drives with the 1TB capacity (including 2 of these ST1000340NS drives and 6 ST1000340AS drives) started reporting multiple "Reallocated Sector Counts" after around 1500 hours and the numbers keep growing. This is a condition not seen on smaller Segate drives (such as the 750GBs).

Other Thoughts: No major disk failures yet on any of the 8 Segate drives and these S.M.A.R.T. reports don't mean much at the moment, however are a cause of worry for me in the long run.

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N/A
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/24/2008 12:10:32 AM

Rating + 5 Fast


Pros: Very fast drive. I would only buy the ES versions as they are made for an enterprise solution and more time and higher quality is put into these ones. The 32MB cache makes a huge difference even over my WD Velociraptor.

Cons: More expensive than the consumer level drive.

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zaine_ridling
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
9/13/2008 2:33:15 AM

Rating + 5 Fast, quiet, reliable, and lasts forever


Pros: Bullit-proof HD built for speed and longetivity. Its perpendicular tech allows it to be a small drive in the case. Perfect for a Linux partition, or three.

Cons: Absolutely none.

Other Thoughts: Remove the jumper and this sucker will fly.

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