Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5 TB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s 32MB Cache 3.5 Inch Internal Hard Drive ST31500341AS-Bare Drive (Amazon Frustration-Free Packaging)
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Customer Review: Still great drives
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought three of these over a year ago to build a hardware RAID5 array. They have been abused without end for that entire time. When they finaly ran out of space, I bought another one to join them...and it works just as well...no need for special utilities to make this drive work with RAID; this is professional grade.Customer Review: Very good Hard Drive
Summary: 5 Stars
I always had good luck with seagate products and I trust them. I'm happy to say that I've never had one go bad on me yet. I've owned this drive for about a year now and I've had no problems and their very quiet, so I bought 2 more. Highly recommendedCustomer Review: Three purchases all failed within a month (10/2009)
Summary: 1 Stars
I bought two of these 7200.11 model drives in October 2009. One failed immediately and I got a replacement. Over the next month the click-click-click of death began and the drives began to fail.
They say that there is a firmware update that fixes this, but in my case it either wasn't applied, or there is more of a problem than they think.
Now, the vendor was not Amazon -- it was Fry's and maybe the batches are different -- but I still won't touch the Seagate 7200.11 line for any amount of "savings." YMMV.
Customer Review: Great drive for a great price
Summary: 5 Stars
I got my Seagate through Bing Cashback and saved a bundle, and I use it as my daily backup storage (via Retrospect) and I have been very happy. No problems whatsoever and the drive is fast and reliable. For secondary backup I also have a Western Digital drive.Customer Review: Still don't trust this drive
Summary: 3 Stars
Okay I used to be a Seagate fanatic since I've used their drives for years and never once had to RMA one. I even got an old 15GB cheetah scsi drive that still works from like 2001! But this drive I don't know where Seagate quality control was when they made this one? I've had this drive a year and I still don't trust it and expect it to fail any day now that's how bad Seagate has fallen in my eyes. I mean it's not just the firmware fiasco it's my firsthand experience with this drive. After a couple of months it started running really slow and I would get these weird pauses playing back video or anything intensive on the drive. Never experienced anything like it before. Well the firmware update seemed to have fixed that. But soon after that I started getting strange noises from the drive so of course I ran seagate diagnostic tools to make sure it wasn't dying but it insisted the drive was good so that left me with no alternative but to complete format the drive and start over. That seems to have gotten rid of the noisy seeking of the drive for a while at least because now it's back! I was going to run seagate tools again but what do you know their software isn't compatible with Windows 7! so it looks like I'll have to find my bootable seagate diagnostic tools disc and see if I have to RMA the drive this time before the warranty runs out on it and before I lose my data! I'm just waiting now to find a reliable 2TB drive now since I also bought a Western Digital 2TB thinking they would be more reliable but no that one actually died already and I had to RMA it so if anyone knows of anyone that makes a reliable drive these days please let the rest of us know!
Update: Okay I don't know if it's just a problem with the way this larger Seagate drives seek information on their larger drives but once again I got rid of the loud and random clicking noises by moving some of the data off this drive. It seems once you get near full capacity on this drive it starts to have problems finding data. Unfortunately, Seagate diagnostic tools says there is nothing wrong with drive and Windows can't find any bad sectors on it so it looks like I will have to put up with this noise longer until I get a replacement drive. After searching other websites this drive being noiser than a first-gen raptor drive seems to be common so maybe it's not that strange. What I do know though is that I also have the 1.5TB Seagate external usb/esata version and that one is pretty quiet and has't given me any problems. Also, the 2TB WD drive I have is pretty quiet and doesn't get noisy either. Still like I said I don't trust this drive since in my experience the only time I've ever had a drive get that noisy especially with clicking sounds is right before it died!
My recommendation at this time would be to avoid larger capacity drive no matter what company makes them at this time unless you really need one since all the kinks don't seem to be worked out like the drives that have been around for a while.