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Seagate Barracuda 7200 1.5 TB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s 32MB Cache 3.5 Inch Internal Hard Drive ST31500341AS-Bare Drive |  | Brand: Seagate
Category: CE
List Price: $199.99
Buy New: $84.78
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Seller: Amazon.com
Rating:  383 reviews
Platform: Windows XP Professional
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Hard Drive Size: 1.5
Graphics RAM: 64
Size: 1.5 TB
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.4
Dimensions (in): 5.8 x 4 x 1
MPN: ST31500341AS
Model: ST31500341AS
UPC: 763649021323
EAN: 0000000002776
ASIN: B00066IJPQ
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| Features:
| • | Spindle Speed is 7,200 RPM | | • | Delivers 1.5 TB capacity, 32 MB Cache; interface is SATA 2 with 3 Gb/s NCQ | | • | Ships with the industry's most reliable and proven perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology |
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Product Description
The Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 drive the 11th generation of this award-winning desktop hard drive family delivers 1.5 TB of high-performing, eco-friendly digital storage. Designed with industry-leading acoustics and power levels, and award-winning Seagate PMR technology, the Barracuda 7200.11 drive offers the ideal combination of world-class technology. Main Features Manufacturer : Seagate Technology Manufacturer Part Number : ST31500341AS Manufacturer Website Product Type : Hard Drive Storage Capacity : 1.5TB Data Transfer Rate : 300MBps Maximum External Rotational Speed : 7200 rpm Interfaces/Ports : 1 x 7-pin Serial ATA/300 Serial ATA Form Factor : 3.5 Internal Hot-swappable Dimensions : 1.03 Height x 4 Width x 5.79 Depth Weight : 25.4 oz Standard Warranty : 5 Year Limited
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 I believe problems are resolved ! December 6, 2008
Honest Guy (Huntington Beach, Ca USA)
182 out of 195 found this review helpful
NEVER SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED:
I've watched the issue with these drives carefully for about 2 months. It looks like Seagate solved the problem and that a vocal few were ever really affected. By few I mean relative to the thousands sold. And I am not defending Seagate. This whole fiasco was unacceptable.
MY SYSTEM:
I picked up 8 of these drives. I'm running them in 4 separate DLink DNS-321 RAID boxes. I've copied about 4TB of data back and forth across them for days. My only firmware update needed was for the DLink so that it could properly handle the new 1.5TB drives.
In the end I believe all is well with both the drives and the DLink DNS-321. I will of course update this review immediately if I see any problems.
PERFORMANCE:
We are able to watch movies from this drive arrangement on 3 computers simultaneously across a 100mb network from the same drive while adding new files to the drive from a 4th computer.
This means I can be adding movies unattended to the system while watching an Epic Man movie on the plasma in the living room... while the kids are watching Monsters Inc in the bedroom... and the wife is off watching some chic flick in the Den. :)
The combination of DLink and these 1.5TB drives is fantastic and seems as stable as the WD 1TBs I was using previously.
PROPER DIAGNOSIS:
Don't confuse your drive DIEING after a week with the previous firmware problems of this particular drive. Blame the vendor that shipped the drive like it could bounce !
ON A SIDE NOTE:
I will say I am sick of Amazon, Tiger and other vendors shipping hard drives like they are indestructible ROCKS. Even if they arrive working, this inadequate packaging is certainly taking years off the life of our drives. One of my 8 arrived DEAD as a brick thanks to this nonsense. I am furious about this issue !
Will it take a class action to stop this behavior of guaranteeing future drive sales by damaging todays drives through deliberate mishandling of our purchases ?! Wake up AMAZON ! Wake up TIGER !
UPDATE: Dec 14 2009
One year later, I own 22 of these drives now. 12 are running daily in DNS-321 Raid boxes. The other 10 are used as back up drives in a drop in SATA adapter. No failures since 2 in the first few weeks, I believe due to poor packaging. About 6 of my drives came with the BAD firmware. I never had issues with that either. Call me blessed. I just think the DNS-321 and these drives work very well together.
Updated firmware now available! November 20, 2008
Ralph E. Richardson (Wayzata, MN United States)
81 out of 93 found this review helpful
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.
Amazon is shipping CC1H drives, and they're awesome. January 24, 2009
Kevin Nicholls (Milford, MI)
16 out of 17 found this review helpful
Generally speaking, you just can't go wrong buying a Seagate drive, and this one is no exception.
Rather than jump in the fray of "OMG I GOT ONE WITH BAD FIRMWARE AND I HATE THE WORLD", I'll just let the world know how things worked out for me, because there are more than enough reviews to tell you that this is the speediest, hugest SATA drive you can buy... and that it's the worst drive ever. More likely than not, you've already decided if you're going to roll the dice, and just want to know what to expect if you order from Amazon instead of another vendor. So... here goes...
I bought two of these drives from Amazon (not the third party links), and the packaging was incredible, especially for an OEM drive. A box with layers of foam protecting the drive... in another box with packing material. They totally blew NewEgg out of the water here.
As far as the drive itself, they came with CC1H out of the box, so no firmware flashing was necessary. The conventional wisdom is that CC1H is the magic firmware that fixes the problems people were having with older iterations of this drive.
I've been using the two drives I bought in a RAID 0 configuration on one of my Macs for nearly two weeks now, without so much as a hiccup.
Screamer June 22, 2009
Francis Taylor
19 out of 21 found this review helpful
I have measured read and write speeds of well over 100 MB/sec on the outer tracks of this drive. This is the fastest drive I have ever seen, and I have 10000 RPM SCSI drives. The price is right, too. This is an ideal drive for RAID. It is low profile and low power so you can cram them into your case without worry of overheating.
Good for media October 11, 2008
Faye Rutherford
40 out of 50 found this review helpful
Not sure what the other two reviewers were having problems with. Maybe something running in the background or not enough free resources on their systems.
I am able to push 1080p HD video with no stutter no stopping or starting no problems.
I have this drive in an external enclosure using Firewire 400 and Firewire 800.
Both move 1080p video with no problem.
Moving files or data it is obviously faster with the Firewire 800 cable rather than the Firewire 400.
I dont think this drive even breaks a sweat playing an mp3.
With 32 mb of cache it has no problems what so ever.
Buy it you wont be disappointed.
We are also testing this drive as a media drive holding approximately 500 movies that have been ripped to it. Some in 1080p HD others in 720p and some in standard def. The test drive is able to stream over a network to 5 different apple tv's and 1 other HD Media Player. The drive is in an external enclosure that has a gigabit network connection and works flawlessly. In our testing while playing all 5 apple tv's and the other hd player all 6 users reported absolutely no stuttering or cacheing of the file or data.
Its that fast.
So again not sure why the other reviewers had problems with this drive stopping and starting or stuttering or re cacheing.
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