Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3320620AS 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Hard Drive (Perpendicular Recording Technology) -Bare Drive

Pros: Bought this back 04/2007 and has been running continuously ever since and still works!

Cons: It hasn't died yet so I haven't' had a reason to go SSD!

Pros: Very reliable drive. Bought in 2007 and it still works flawlessly to this day. Unfortunately storage capacity needs have grown, and this drive is only 320GB. I wish I bought more of these back then, seeing as drives today tend to be hit or miss....

Cons: None that I can think of. For an older drive this has great speeds and a large cache, plus a large size for a drive being released during the end of the XP days.

Other Thoughts: I would buy again. WD drives seem to fail frequently these days. Hopefully Seagate still has good quality control.

Pros: Reliable.I bouht this in 2006 works fine till today. It weathered my 100s of installs & reinstalls. Nice product.

Cons: none I come across

Pros: Over 6 years, I've put the original two I purchased in multiple Frankenstein systems I've built. Finally about to sell them as I plan on building a brand new rig from the ground up. Completely satisfied happy to part with them knowing how reliable they were for me. Hope to get the same performance out of the two ST2000DM001 that will be replacing them.

Cons: Lack infinite storage capacity :(

Pros: Bought this HDD back in 2008 for a (then) gaming build. That entire build is still functioning as it was built, simply amazing.

Cons: none

Pros: More than 6 years later under constant use this drive continued to work as advertised.

Cons: None - works as advertised

Pros: Not sure why I'm bothering to write this now, but it's lasted for five years now and keeps on going. Reasonably fast drive for it's time. Hasn't caused a single issue since I bought it.

Cons: N/A

Pros: I am posting an update to my previous review. I contacted Seagate and expressed my concerns about receiving the same model that had failed twice before.
Seagate e-mailed me back assuring me that they wanted to resolve this problem. I had suggested a different Seagate model with positive reviews and similar capabilities (Constellation), and Seagate agreed to ship it to me. Seagate even sent me a postage-paid label.

Cons: Bad hardware is always a hassle.

Other Thoughts: I'm very pleased with Seagate's commitment to customer support. I see bad hardware all the time at work, and I know it can happen from any manufacturer. Based on the way Seagate handled this situation, I am happy to buy and recommend their products.

Pros: When these drives work, they are great. Seagate's Sea Tools is a good free tool for hardware diagnostics.

Cons: I bought 2 of these hard drives in April 2008. In September 2009, the drive I was using as storage started having problems being recognized in the BIOS.

HD Tune and Sea Tools told me the drive was bad. Chkdsk, SeaTools, SpinRite, etc. weren't able to get the drive running properly again. In the end, I sent it back to Seagate. Unfortunately, they sent me a refurbished hard drive on the same model.

Now, June 2011, the replacement hard drive they sent is no longer recognized in Windows. It's recognized in the BIOS, but HD Tune and Sea Tools both diagnosing the drive as bad and irreparable.

Other Thoughts: Seagate's 5-year warranty is not helpful because I have to keep paying to ship my drive back to Seagate only to have them send me the same problematic model. Luckily I have backups, otherwise I would have lost my data!

I work in the IT field and I don't think I will buy or recommend Seagate for the time being.

Pros: Good Price and 5 year warranty

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: Easy setup in RAID no errors and still chuggin away