Seagate 1TB Barracuda 7200.11 Bulk/OEM Hard Drive ST31000340AS
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Customer Review: Very good product
Summary: 5 Stars
High storage capacity, fast data read/write access and very low working operation noise for a lower price!...
very good product.
Customer Review: Seagate 1TB
Summary: 5 Stars
I've had the disk a month and it is performing well. Fast and quiet. No issues with this drive.
Mike
Customer Review: Seagate hard drive
Summary: 5 Stars
Good item. Great price! Unfortunately I was unable to use it as my computer uses an older IDE connection.Customer Review: Better than most
Summary: 4 Stars
I've been using the Barracuda line of Seagate drives for years now and I work in the IT industry. Basically I don't see much difference in drive lifespan between the big drive vendors. Reliability varies from one model to the next but on average I see between 2.5 to 4 years lifespan on a given drive. Lately two of my Barracudas have gone bad. They had a nice 3 year lifespan and performed as expected. The thing that keeps me coming back to the Barracudas is the noise level. It is indeed, "whisper quiet". This seems to be the one thing that distinguishes it from the competition and the one reason I'll keep buying them.
As for warranty. Don't bother. I used to send in for warranty replacements on my drives. Every drive I've ever received back would last about 2-3 months and then die again. It's standard procedure for drive companies to send you remanufactured drives for your warranty exchanges. Unfortunately, the reliability quotient on remanufactured drives is very low. Also, you must pay for special packing material to return the drive if you didn't save the original packaging. (They won't accept it any other way.) The price of materials plus shipping doesn't justify the short lifespan the warranty replacements provide.
Also, most drives tend to get noisy after about year two. Even the wonderfully quiet Barracuda will start to sound like a mini jet engine after about 3 years. The noise level starts at near silence and very slowly progresses to intolerable noise after 3.5 years. This might actually be a good thing. After that long the drive media can start to deteriorate at which point it's a good idea to move your data to a healthy new drive or risk losing some (or all) of it.
Bottom line, you're paying for 2.5 to 5 years of service from your drive regardless of manufacturer. Your drive will become increasingly noisy with age. The warranty for almost all vendors is not terribly helpful due to the remanufactured drive failure statistics. So DO buy this drive but do so because it has one benefit over the competition. It's dead quiet when it's new.
Customer Review: Drive failed within days; replaced quickly and works well so far
Summary: 4 Stars
I love Seagate. I use only Seagate drives because the only drives I've ever seen fail are Western Digital and IBM/Hitachi. Unfortunately, after using this drive for a week or so, it failed catastrophically, failing Seagate's "Long Generic" diagnostic.) Fortunately, I was still burning in the system and hadn't put any important data on it yet.
I used Amazon.com to report the defective unit late Sunday night. Amazon shipped a replacement within hours, and I had it on Tuesday. This new unit has been running fine for a few weeks now and, based on my experience, should continue to for many years.
Conclusion: Always test your system for a week or two. Amazon's RMA system is second to none (especially when compared to NewEgg). It's worth a couple extra bucks for such great service.