Seagate 1TB Barracuda 7200.11 Bulk/OEM Hard Drive ST31000340AS
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Customer Review: Solid and reliable seagate drives
Summary: 4 Stars
It's the classic price vs performance debate. How much do you value your data and at what cost should you protect it? Personally I think Seagate has an edge on the competition, it's prices are decent, whilst most importantly, the performance and build of the drives are stellar. It runs quiet, I was forced to strain to listen to hear it running. It actually ran all night backing up an entire archive and was only moderately warm. The 5 year warranty put's your mind at rest too should the unspeakable happen.Customer Review: Possibly the most unreliable drive out there
Summary: 1 Stars
My drive lasted for 2 years (which is better than some of the other reviewers) and just died on me a couple of days ago. The drive died completely on a whim; there were no signs of it failing. It just decided to go kaput on me one day.
Fortunately, I am not alone. People... Do NOT buy this drive, or any Seagate drive for that matter. Its a good thing I have everything backed up, but it was still a hellish experience.
With the others, I am sure this is firmware issues.
Customer Review: OEM but installs easily
Summary: 5 Stars
Arrived in a box in another box held by typical drive black plastic end holders. OEM so no cable/screws or software. Downloaded Max Blaster 5 from Seagate site to clone original drive. Takes 3 hr to format thru windows XP drive management and 1 and a half hour to copy 200 G from old drive with Max Blaster. Had to change BIOS to see both drives to clone. Moved new drive to boot position. Completely disconnected old drive before first reboot on new drive.Customer Review: Big problems
Summary: 1 Stars
Stay well away from these drives. They have a major firmware bug that will set the drive to busy, and lock you out. No PC's BIOS will not be able to see the drive. You will lose your data and get a refurbed drive back from Seagate that may well do the same again.
There are loads of stories about this all over the web, even on Seagate's own forums, but they deny there is a problem. I had one of these drive die in six weeks with no warning at all.
Customer Review: 1TB Seagate Will FAIL!!!
Summary: 1 Stars
Don't buy this hard drive. Seagate is not recognizing a problem with these drives and others that they are manufacturing. Many users, including myself, have had these hard drives fail within 4 months. Specifically, it's the hard drives with firmware version sd15 and from thailand. If you get brave and buy it anyways, then back up your data everytime you move something to it. It's not a matter of if... but when it fails!!! Don't say you weren't warned.