- 5900 RPM 32MB Cache
- SATA 3.0Gb/s
- For Daily Computing
- 2 yrs
Great Capacity and Quiet, BUT ...
08/23/2009
This review is from: Seagate BarraCuda LP ST32000542AS 2TB 5900 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Hard Drive Bare Drive
Pros:
Immense capacity (duh!) and quiet operation.
Cons:
Had an horrific time with the Seagate Disk Wizard. On My Dell XPS-600 (Vista Home Premium 32-bit) it would barely recognize the first of the identical two drives I installed and a mind-boggling, jaw-dropping number of read and write errors cropped up. I had to partition each disk into two 1 TB (931 GB) partitions and the formatting (my system would not allow a quick format) took up to 10 hours per partition. Finally, I had the first drive wrestled and functional (the Disk Wizard also wreaked havoc with some of my applications) installed Disk Wizard on that drive and it would never even recognize the second drive.
SO - short story long, ladies and gents - use Disk Management under Windows to partition and format these drives.
Overall Review:
Seagate tech support - while available seven days a week - is perfunctory at best. After about a dozen calls, only Fatima and Darryl (especially) were helpful and pointed my nose in the right direction. The latter especially suggested Disk Management.
If you run into a mediocre tech - and you will - hang up and dial again (and again) and get yourself a knowledgeable and helpful tech. Seagate has a (too) few of them.
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- Daniel L.
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