Seagate 1TB Barracuda 7200.11 Bulk/OEM Hard Drive ST31000340AS
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Manufacturer: SeagateModel: ST31000340AS
Product features:
- Ships in Certified Frustration-Free Packaging
- 1 TB SATA NCQ internal hard drive is ideal for performance PCs, gaming, workstations, desktop RAID, and more
- 32 MB cache buffer; 7200 RPM for fast read/write times; Perpendicular recording for increased data density
- Adaptive Fly Height offers consistent read/write performance from the beginning to the end of your computing workload
- Windows Live OneCare 2.0 (Up to 3 Users)
- Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 Standard [OLD VERSION]
- Nero 8 Ultra Edition [OLD VERSION]
- Nero Liquid TV [Old Version]
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Customer Review: I wouldn't buy anything else
Summary: 5 Stars
Seagate has always been my go-to brand for drives. A smarter friend of mine recommended them and I've been mostly successful buying only Seagate. I do have a few Western Digital drives (I always buy their externals because I'm a sucker for their design, but I've owned a few internals as well) and the Seagate drives have ultimately been more reliable.
I only have three of these drives, which seems like a lot when I write it here but it isn't. I mean, you have to use more than just one of the drives to get a feel for the quality because it's not uncommon to get a dud. I have yet to get a bad Seagate drive, but I've certainly seen some unhappy first-time customers who ended up with a dud and paid the $20 for Seagate's immediate replacement plan. They always seem to think it's a rip off.
Well, if I got a DOA drive I wouldn't want to pay $20 more just to have a quick replacement, but if you have a drive that dies later in its life--any time within their 5 year warranty--Seagate will replace it free of charge. If you want to pay the extra $20 to have an immediate replacement then it's a very nice option to have. If you're not backing up your computer and/or do not have any redundancy in your setup, that $20 option can make your life a lot easier if your drive dies. In my case, I used these in a Drobo so if one dies I'm okay and can wait until the replacement comes. I generally keep an extra drive around the house for when one of the drives inevitably fails.
You're going to, at some point, have a drive that dies. I've been very lucky in that I've only had one hard drive die on me in my entire life (aside from a DOA Maxtor drive I got in a Lacie external Porsche drive many years ago). That one drive was a Seagate 500GB drive. It died after two years of life and was one of the seventeen 500GB drives I bought from Seagate. It was in a RAID 5 array and I just swapped it out with another--no harm done. The others are still fully functional and in, at least, their third year. While I trusted my friend, I wasn't fully sold on the Seagate brand until having such reliability proven to me through use.
So far the three 1TB Seagate drives I'm using have performed very well. They're fast, they're so far reliable, and I've had no issues whatsoever with them. They work great in the Drobo (the newer model with FW800) and are safely archiving my data so the only thing I have to worry about is a natural disaster (or the unlikely occurrence that I lose two drives at the exact same time).
It's a hard drive so there's only so much I can say about it. I trust Seagate to continue manufacturing quality products. My experience has been very good with them and many of their drives. These 1TB drives are doing their job very well. Seagate's had a chance to refine their 1TB model and with prices as low as they are, I think it's a good time to adopt the 1TB drive over the 500GB drive. Overall, highly recommended.
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