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: No problems -- works fine as second drive in Win XP system.
Summary: 5 Stars
After reading all the reviews I must admit I was a bit apprehensive about buying this drive because of other reviewers' troubles with it. But it appeared that: (1) most of the advertised problems seem to be related to users with RAID or comparable storage configurations; (2) updated firmware is now available. Well I just wanted a replacement for my second hard drive in a simple Windows XP SP3 system so I went ahead with the purchase. My drive had the CC1G firmware. I went to the Seagate site, typed in the serial number, and it said my drive's fine. And that's been true for a few weeks now. Easy setup with the usual partitioning and formatting. The drive's been very quiet and fast. I've been loading the drive up with stuff including videos and everything has played just fine. So if you have simple storage needs in a Win XP system I think that this drive will work fine for you. If you happen to receive a drive with the older firmware, either return it or just flash it with the updated firmware that's available now.Customer Review: Excellent Drive. Endless Space
Summary: 5 Stars
Bought this drive a few weeks back and it's worked flawlessly. Upon opening the Amazon box, I was utterly shocked to find that it was actually packaged carefully! Historically, Amazon has shipped fragile items in a huge box with absolutely no packaging whatsoever, with the item rattling around like a rock. This drive came tightly sandwiched between two thick pieces of foam. Again, this is a first and probably just a fluke.
Note that this is an OEM drive, meaning that you JUST GET THE DRIVE. Nothing else. Zippo. No sata cable, no power cable, no manual, no packaging. Nothing.
Installation of the drive is incredibly simple; if you can't figure it out, you shouldn't be using a computer in the first place. Once installed and operating, it's extremely quiet. So quiet, in fact, you'd swear it wasn't plugged in. Data access is very fast; noticeably faster than my 7200.9 & 7200.10 250 gig drives.
If you need massive amounts of space, I highly recommend this drive.
Customer Review: Good Drive Value for HP MediaSmart Servers
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought two of these drives for my HP MediaSmart Home Server model EX495. Packaging and shipping were excellent. These drives appear to be the exact model currently shipped with the HP MediaSmart EX495 Home Server. HP EX495 1.5TB Mediasmart Home Server ( Black) Both installed in about a minute without a hitch. I added them to the server storage pool with one click in the MediaSmart configuration application, and they have been running quietly and reliably ever since. By the way, I bought the server here, as well. Best prices I could find anywhere on both the server and drives, online or brick-and-mortar. I've had better luck lately with the Seagate brand than with Western Digital. Also note that you must use the 7200 RPM drives with the HP MediaSmart EX495. Slower drives may be a little bit cheaper/larger, but, unlike these drives, they are not recommended by HP for use in the MediaSmart server.Customer Review: Updated firmware now available!
Summary: 5 Stars
Here's the "consumable" snippet from an email that was sent to tech support/sales/AE's, etc.:
Seagate 1.5TB Customers,
Some Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB hard drives may show uncharacteristic
operation when used with Mac and Linux operating systems in multi-drive
configurations. Users may experiences pauses in video streaming applications
or a dropped drive from RAID arrays. Customers seeing these symptoms should
contact Seagate Technical Support for a firmware upgrade.
In order to assure the proper application of the new firmware, please email a
description of the issues youre seeing to Seagate ([...])
Please include the following disk drive information: model number, serial
number and current firmware revision. Also, please describe your
system,operating system and the application in use when the issue arose. We
will respond, promptly, to your email request with appropriate instructions.
Customer Review: Great Drive
Summary: 5 Stars
I have always bought Seagate drives, recently upgraded my MBP to a 320 MB Seagate, same with my MacMini; so even after reading so many negative reviews I decided to take a chance with it. I upgraded the 500 MB drive in my Time Capsule with the 1.5 TB Seagate and it works perfectly, it not only provides backups using Time Machine for all my Macs, but also works as a media server for all my house and I can stream music and videos from it without a single glitch, even streamed different music for two Macs at the same time. The drive is very fast, very silent and has massive storage. Maybe I just got lucky and the one I received has the new firmware, I actually never even checked what version it was, just installed it. I would definitely recommend this drive it's just awesome, huge amounts of space, quick, silent, low heat, very very affordable and so far very reliable; just hope it stays that way, but so far it's an amazing drive.