Seagate Barracuda 7200 1.5 TB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s 32MB Cache 3.5 Inch Internal Hard Drive ST31500341AS-Bare Drive
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Customer Review: Users having problems should check jumper settings
Summary: 5 Stars
I have this drive and it works great. A couple of people are saying that this drive is slow or pauses when transferring files or playing media. They need to check to make sure that there are no jumpers set. This drive normally operates at 300 MB/sec. See below from Seagate's page:
"It is not necessary to set any terminators or other settings on this drive for proper operation. The jumper block adjacent to the SATA interface connector on SATA 150MB/sec drives is for factory use only. The jumper block adjacent to the SATA interface connector on SATA 300MB/sec drives can be used to force the drive into SATA 150MB/sec mode for use with older SATA controllers that only work with SATA 150MB/sec drives."
The jumper setting can be seen here [...]
If your system is sata 1 then you will need this jumper set. If your system is sata 1 and the jumper is not set that could be causing the pause problem since the drive is trying to send the data faster than the system can accept it. If you system is sata 2 and the jumper is set then this could cause slow read/writes.
Customer Review: Pleased so far
Summary: 5 Stars
We purchased two of these. I certainly did my homework on this purchase investigating both Seagate and Western Digital 1.5 TB drives. These Seagates arrived a few days ago and I was fully prepared to send them back based upon other bad packaging reviews and other infant mortality reviews here.
But these arrived in a large box which was full of those little air-bag pillows. Tucked into the pillows were two individual, sealed, factory boxed drives. The drives themselves were properly packaged inside their individual boxes using Seagate's regular plastic end-cap suspension. The drives were factory sealed in plastic anti-static packaging. So I have no beef with the shipping or packaging. The drives showed no special OEM or other descriptions and in fact are identical (except for specifications) to many other Seagate 7200 series drives we have here.
The drives were immediately mounted, initialized, quick-formatted and tested. We found no anomaies. The drives are almost silent in operation and have shown no errors or mal-function in continuous running so far.
Customer Review: Guess I'm one of the lucky ones.
Summary: 5 Stars
I purchased two of these drives from another vendor when they first came out. I've never had a problem with them, but I'm backing up everything just in case. It looks like the reviews are about 40% negative and 60% positive with nothing in the middle, which is not good. That tells me that the problem is either off or on and therefore likely to be a quality control issue.
These drives are batch tested, like most mass produced items these days. Pressure from the "bean counters" upstairs leads to sample shopping, so batches that should be rejected are instead shipped. When that happens, production problems don't get fixed because there is no feedback. It's all about greed folks.
History shows that Seagate knows how to make great hard drives, but right now their priorities are out of whack. Just be thankful they don't make peanut products or some of us might not be here. Still, I'm willing to take a chance since I was lucky the first time. I ordered two more drives and am keeping my fingers crossed. Hey, they're 1.5TB! ;-)
Customer Review: Drive Happy
Summary: 5 Stars
Put this in my 2007 Intel iMac to replace the now "tiny" 250 GB drive that came with it. Data transfer rates seem good and it's nice to have the additional storage. No more external drives for music. The noise level is about the same and temperature seems to be under control ~38 C. I'm happy with it.
The packaging wasn't extensive, but seemed to work. I think most of the drive failure problems people have are from being kicked around in shipping. I normally use Fedex to ship drives when ordering components, let the case and power supply, etc. ship by ground, but sensitive items by Fedex. Their boxes are usually less mangled. This was via Amazon Prime, and the 2-day UPS box was in good shape. It just had the OEM drive contained between two plastic, form-fitted inserts. Apparently good enough, but it's only been running for a couple of weeks. Word to the wise, keep your old drive as a backup for a as long as you can and at least a month. If the new drive is going to fail, it's probably going to happen in the first 30 days.
Customer Review: You can't beat the $/GB ratio (for now)
Summary: 5 Stars
I need a drive to back up my photos, and that turned into a project of "well, I might as well back up everything..." I had my eyes on a 1tb drive, but at a few dollars more, I bit and purchased this Seagate drive. 1.5TB (well, 1.39TB when formatted in NTFS) for ~$120 is nothing a great price, but this time next year, it'll probably be a lot cheaper.
Earlier Seagate drives for this model had firmware issues where the drive would spontaneously freeze. The drive that I purchased and received was free from this with updated firmware (you can check this by going to Seagate's website and looking for SeaTools.) That was my big concern (although instead of dealing with Seagate's awful customer service, you can download the updated firmware for this drive at Newegg.)
On another note, Amazon seems to have gotten a lot better about packaging OEM drives. It seemed like they used to just toss it in an empty box and hope that UPS didn't destroy it, but this came in a larger box, all wrapped in foam. That made me feel a lot better.