Seagate 1TB Barracuda 7200.11 Bulk/OEM Hard Drive ST31000340AS
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Customer Review: High failure rate in these drives.
Summary: 1 Stars
There is a very high failure rate in these drives. I bought 4 of them and within 6months all of them have begun the click of death....the click of the heads resetting. A simple google search shows that the Seagate Barracuda has an extremely high failure rate and this click of death is very common among this drive between 500-1.5tb and firmware cc34-cc37. Could be different sizes and firmware but those are the ones I have specifically looked for.Customer Review: Don't do it. BEWARE!!!
Summary: 2 Stars
I purchased one drive , and it went bad in less than 2 days. I got the click of death, and the drive just stopped showing up in bios. I got a replacement drive that lasted about 2 weeks before i started getting clicks and delayed write failures. I could read from the drive but in the end i couldn't write data to it. It would just start clicking and then i couldn't do anything. I do allot of video editing so i had about 300GB on it when i lost it.Customer Review: Seems just fine to me -- but be aware it's a bare-bones product
Summary: 4 Stars
Well I just installed it and everything seems fine. Good price for an obscene amount of storage.
One thing I didn't realize is that this is an OEM product -- that is it didn't come with any cables, mounting screws, or anything else but just the drive.
This slowed me down some as I had to then go buy a power and data cable for the thing. But once I did that it installed easily enough and is working great.
Customer Review: terrible packaging
Summary: 4 Stars
While I believe this hard drive is an excellent product, the shipping practices are terrible. The drive was loose in the inner box, the fragile circuitry exposed to every bump. The drive did not work as a result, and I sent it back for a refund. I have since bought the same drive from a competitor for more, but it arrived safely, secured in the plastic bookends, and works quietly and quickly in my Mac Pro.Customer Review: dead after 3 weeks
Summary: 1 Stars
Just a little over 3 weeks old and it died. Seagate's poor overseas tech support, of no help, they offer to send a `refurbished' drive (a used one) to replace what I purchased NEW. Called Seagate Corporate, no help, selecting numbers to more automated script recorded voices. No option to get to a real person or a operator. Good bye Seagate, poor service, poor drive. Save you money. Run from this company.