Seagate 1.5TB Internal 3.5" Sata 32MB Cache Review

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(More customer reviews)The first thing to be mentioned, is that no one can rightfully complain about not having 1TB of storage, every drive, for the longest time is rated raw. When I formatted mine to NTFS it was 931.5GB, about 20GB more than I even expected.

The second thing to understand, is every drive model, from every manufacturer, has a pretty standard, and somewhat high, DOA (here I am considering DOA as literally dead on arrival, and 1 week and under) rate. If you receive a DOA, rate the replacement, or the service you received. If you get two DOA's, or get a replacement that is DOA; complain freely.

I have my drive (I have the exact drive, except I purchased it OEM) inside a Nexstar 3 enclosure (capable of recognizing all 1TB) via esata (you can use USB 2.0 with this enclosure as well). The esata run into my Asus G2S-B2 via a Rosewill Expresscard32 2-port esata expansion. In short, the performance I received, will reflect SATAII internal performance Identically.

The first thing to do, if your sata controller can handle auto-negotiation, is to remove the tiny gray jumper entirely, this will increase your burst performance.

Seq. Write - 70 MB/s Seq. Read - 105 MB/s Buffered Write - 59 MB/s Buffered Read - 62 MB/s Random Reading - 54 MB/s This drive is faster than the kin Seagate inside my laptop as the main disk. For those of you who can't use it internally or through esata, you will not see this kind of performance, the theoretical throughput of USB 2.0 is almost half the seq. read.

These tests are run through PC Wizard 2008, important, with the jumper installed. I didn't wish to assume people know what it is and know if their sata controller can use it removed. The performance is slightly better, but nothing substantial, without the jumper (it effectively dubs the drive down to sata 1).

I've basically torture tested this drive since I received it almost a month ago, it is perfect. Generally, I've found, drives fail sooner than later; this drive will most likely serve me for quite some time.

I recommend this drive over any other, if the performance is not higher (Hitachi's are snoozfest), then the fail rate is much much lower (Samsung's new 1TB is notoriously bad, unacceptably high fail rate). etc.

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Seagate 1TB Barracuda 7200.11 Bulk/OEM Hard Drive ST31000340AS Review

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(More customer reviews)I bought 4 of these for a RAID5 setup in September.So far I've had two of them fail.One was a hard failure in which the controller stopped working completely, and the other is showing a lots of seek errors in the SMART data and tells me its going to fail soon.They both started clicking the heads (a symptom of a reset because of an error) just a few days after I got them.

Seagate replaced the total failure within a couple of days after I reported it, and now I have to ship them back the failed drive.I bought a new unit I'm expecting tomorrow as a spare replacement, and I will be reporting and shipping back the drive with all the seek errors soon.

The drives have otherwise been great, but 50% isn't such a good reliability statistic, and that's my primary measure for a drive.

On the other hand, I did buy two other drives from the same family, two ST3500320AS drives.They have been working away flawlessly in my workstation in a RAID1 setup since I got them.

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Seagate Barracuda 2 TB 5900RPM SATA 3Gb/s 32 MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Desktop Hard Drive ST320005N4A1AS-RK-Retail Kit Review

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(More customer reviews)These two "Seagate Barracuda 2 TB 5900RPM SATA 3Gb/s 32 MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Desktop Hard Drive ST320005N4A1AS-RK-Retail Kit[s]" purchased on 6/9/2010 are truly great drives, holding an amazing amount of data. Further, there are two things I like about them being Seagate: 1-Seagate has a software which is built on Acronis True Home drive-cloning software -- but for free with Seagate drive use, and 2-Seagate has a program for drives in warranty -- and here is my experience: A past 1 TB Seagate Barracuda drive failed mechanically. Instead of going through the entire "I-send-it-there-you-evaluate-the-warranty-maybe-you-send-me-a-new-drive-maybe-you-don't-etc", Seagate has a program where I paid $19.99 (after running some tests online on my drive). No questions asked now--or later: They send you a new box, foam packing, anti-static bag, and pre-paid UPS shipping label -- with a brand new drive in it! You put your old drive in it, ship it back, and forget it! You pop the drive in they sent you! Voila! That's it! No hassles, no problems! This is why I have stuck with Seagate, have 3 1TB and 2 2TB Seagate Barracuda drives (having replace two 0.5 TB other-brand drives). I have had zero problem with any of my other Seagate drives -- and the one I did -- replacement was cheap, up-front, and totally hassle-free.

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Seagate ST3750640A-RK Barracuda 750 GB Ultra-ATA/100 3.5-Inch Internal Hard Drive Review

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(More customer reviews)So far I'm very pleased with this new Seagate drive.This is the third Seagate drive I've purchased recently and each one has installed without a single glitch.
The main reason for this is the CD/Software that comes with each drivecalled DiskWizard.This program will setup your drive for you, and then mirror your current drive including Operating System or you can install it as a second drive. No more fdisk, format, etc., DiskWizard does all of this for you. (Check Windows version compatibility)
If you are replacing a drive, after running DiskWizard, set the jumper (if not using CS (Cable Select) to Master, remove your old drive, turn the PC on and it boots right up. Truly painless.
This drive has performed very well, is fast, and has a high capacity for storing massive amounts of photos, movies, and mp3's.

The drive seems to be well designed and quality is outstanding.

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