Seagate BarraCuda 7200.8 ST3200826A 200GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache IDE Ultra ATA100 / ATA-6 3.5" Hard Drive Bare Drive

Comments: We buy dozens of drives a week. Lately, with Seagates, we are getting many with high failure rates. We just got 9 from newegg. 1 has a piece of plastic broken, another has many bad sectors, and another won't even boot. On ALL previous orders, there were Seagates with problems. 160/200GB models.

Pros: 5 year Warranty Good Price

Cons: Lasted 5 minutes

Overall Review: This hard drive was a hair away from being DOA. I installed it with no problem, and used the Seagate Wizard to transfer my old files to this new hard drive. In the middle of things it gave me the blue screen of death. Now windows wont recognize it. Ill have to return it to newegg in the morning.

Pros: Fast speed, large capacity for it's age, rock solid stability!

Cons: Doesn't make me breakfast

Overall Review: I love this thing. I got one of these for Christmas about 5-6 years ago, and this bad boy is still kicking around strong. It traveled across country inside my computer case on a drive from Oregon to NYC. It's been schlepped around various apartments in NYC, then went in my backpack for a plane ride to San Francisco, where it lived on a shelf for awhile, then drove back to Oregon. Got an old computer for free, and plugged this beast in. Still works like the first day I got it, and I haven't lost ANY data through all this abuse! Can't expect any more then this from a product.

Pros: I have had my 200g for about 3 years and have had no problems while I watched family members replace one maxtor after another. My computer came with a 40g seagate and it is still good after 7 years.

Cons: none

Pros: Past Seagate hard drives have been reliable.

Cons: Last two drives of these have failed.

Overall Review: Haven't had much luck with these hard drives lately. I've had two fail on me in the past month. One drive failed two weeks after install and that drive was supposed to replace another Seagate drive that failed. I think I'll take a break with Seagate for a while. I don't like taking chances with my data.

Pros: Worked great for almost a whole day!

Cons: Bought 2 of these in the last month - both bad.

Overall Review: I've always loves Seagate drives, having owned 40GB, 80GB, 120GB and 160GB models - all very reliable. Now I've bought 2 of these in the last month - I was able to install operating systems and copy files (many hours of labor) only to have them crash (no longer boots, files cannot be accessed, even as a slave drive). Seagates used to be so great! So quiet! Sorry, Seagate you've lost a customer.

Pros: I've never had a Seagate drive randomly fail on me. In fact I only buy Seagate and Maxtor for this reason alone. Owned two of the 200G IDE drives for more than a year in a striped array and the performance is exceptional. They run pretty cool too.

Cons: None

Pros: Cheap price and easy to install

Cons: Drive is not reliable. Installed in a Venus enclosure with a cooling fan, the drive was used as a backup. All data on drive is lost. It just spins and makes a click every 10 seconds. The drive utilities on Seagates CD-ROM weren't much help.