Seagate 1TB Barracuda 7200.11 Bulk/OEM Hard Drive ST31000340AS
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Customer Review: 1 Bad, 1 Good
Summary: 3 Stars
I purchased two of these for use in a Drobo. One went bad in a week and now, a month later, I am still awaiting replacement from the vendor. I choose Seagate after a recent round of Western Digital failures, and the fact that Seagate has a major R&D center in my hometown. Sort of a support the "local" guy mentality. I hope I did not make a bad decision.Customer Review: Firmware Issues
Summary: 2 Stars
I bought two of these HDDs a little less than a year ago due to its good reviews here and installed them on my Windows Home Server.
However, after 10 months, one of them just bricked. I couldn't even mount it on a different computer. The BIOS wouldn't even recognize the drive.
Luckily WHS did a great job replicating my data to the other HDD.
After doing some research, I found out that these models have a firmware issue where the drive simply bricks itself. See article below.
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While I'm not sure about the failure rate specified on the article above, search results indicate this to be a fairly common problem.
Seagate is currently shipping me a replacement under warranty. However, under their terms, they'll be shipping a refurbished HDD and not a new one. I'll be adding this refurbished drive in my WHS, but already expecting it to brick sometime in the future.
The reason for the 2 stars instead of 1, is that I like to be fair and these drive do have good performance and are fairly quiet. They do run a bit hot, but not an issue for me.
Customer Review: 1 out of 3 failed.
Summary: 2 Stars
Hmm...shoulda looked at more of the reviews before I made my purchase. Silly me for not paying a little more for the "enterprise" version of this drive. In short, these units shipped 11/26/2008 and the drive I affectionately named Bastion died 12/26/2008. And this merely after formatting the drive with nary a byte written. Thank God I didn't place anything valuable on there. I'll admit that I tend to run my drives for long stretches of time, but they're always in a temperature-controlled environment with plenty of airflow in the external eSATA chassis. In any case, I'll be backing up the other two drives post haste. With the "infant mortality" rate this line is seeing, I'm surprised there hasn't been more blowback from the public directed at Seagate. So I guess I'll be RMA'ing this one, but like the others, I don't expect I'll see much better quality in return. Seriously, Seagate, are you silently slipping Maxtor parts into your consumer drives? What are you smoking?!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: Junk Drive
Summary: 2 Stars
Worked fine for 2 months before it crashed. I think this is a sign of poor quality. I've never had a drive die so soon. DOA would have been better. One hundred dollars and a lot of time down the drain. I'll pass on trying another. Don't care to chance having another crash soon after getting all my software setup again. Better make sure to backup your files regularly with this drive.