SEAGATE 1.5TB ST31500341AS STAT2 7200RPM 32MB (Bare drive) ($130 plus FREE Ground Shipping!)

[phoenix79]

I got one on the black friday deal and it runs fine.

 

[swage]

Don't buy this garbage drive, stick with a quality drive, WD, IMHO.

 

[Devil2U]

I ain't trusting my data (even on a RAID) to these.....

Ladies and gentlemen, we have our next "Vista" product!

 

[BarryG]

Originally posted by: chiu

Originally posted by: hans007

Originally posted by: BarryG
Wish I knew where a firmware update for my 1TB drive could be. Each of three mainboards I've attached it to says it is only 32 MB, i.e. the cache size.

Barry

your drive is actaully broken.

i had a hitachi that would do that, the controller board is dead.

hans007 is right. goto the Seagate forums and you'll see quite a bit of dying 1.0tb drives.

Turns out it is fine. Downloaded SeaTools for DOS, burned to CD, booted to program and reset maximum native size. Worked like a charm. Really huge drive. My second, though first was an Hitachi which is still working fine in another machine.

Just to let you know, my Seagate firmware is SD15.

Barry

 

[The0ne]

Originally posted by: jjmIII

Originally posted by: zervun
They have a new "version" of this out - I bought one from Newegg a week ago, doesn't require a firmware update.

Ya, they sent me the "new version" on my first RMA.....still sux.

I pd $104 for this drive, and that was too much!

I got my two replacements back just last week and just had them installed and running now. I hope I don't lose my data since these are suppose to be my backup drives :/

I have to agree with so many buyers on this particular product. Buy at your own risk.

 

[CptLemur]

I have taken your dare...been using Seagates for years and I have had much LESS trouble form them than other manufacturers. Went through two Maxtor's in less than a year at one point--haven't lost a Seagate yet.

I'll be using it as a "storage" drive. I'll be sure to post here if it gives me any trouble. For that price, with the warrenty and the history...worth it to me.

 

[bobma]

I got one two weeks ago and, so far, running fine (fingers crossed) 5 yr warranty

 

[SludgeFactory]

With the stuff I've read about their recent drives, I don't trust Seagate at this point.

At 1TB or greater, that's just too much porn to lose!

 

[Finalnight]

Skip this, the new 7200.12's are out. Much faster.

 

[RallyMaster]

Fear not! The firmware updates are here!
http://www.techpowerup.com/823...00.11_Hard_Drives.html

 

[Finalnight]

Too bad they didnt have it before I RMA'ed my 640 GB and paid the $20 advance recovery fee (which used to be free with maxtor).

 

[imported_Bee]

Originally posted by: Finalnight
Skip this, the new 7200.12's are out. Much faster.

much faster WHAT? Dead?

 

[Finalnight]

Originally posted by: Bee

Originally posted by: Finalnight
Skip this, the new 7200.12's are out. Much faster.

much faster WHAT? Dead?

probably that too. But they use 500GB platters instead of 333GB platters.

 

[hans007]

the benchmarks for th e500gb one on the web seem to indicate its not really faster. the 1.5 TB has 375gb platters so i figured its not a huge difference. they havent announced anything over 1TB yet for the new platters wonder why.

 

[bradley]

Originally posted by: hans007
the benchmarks for th e500gb one on the web seem to indicate its not really faster. the 1.5 TB has 375gb platters so i figured its not a huge difference. they havent announced anything over 1TB yet for the new platters wonder why.

The preliminary benches for the 500 GB 7200.12 are indeed disappointing. Perhaps we are starting to experience diminishing returns based on platter and cache size. Instead of 125-135 MB/sec average transfer speeds, we're only seeing around 102-108MB/sec. Write speeds are pretty good though. Fewer platters should at least mean greater reliability, that's if Seagate wasn't so extremely deficient in this department lately.

And while the 1.5TB 7200.11 performs exactly as expected, in my mind, it's too risky a choice. I'm currently in a holding pattern, waiting to see what WD has up its sleeve.

 

[bradley]

Expreview on the 7200.12 500 GB drive.

http://en.expreview.com/2009/0...0012-hard-drive.html/3

 

[jjmIII]

Seagate Sux, and has no answer to these problems. I grabbed a 1tb Hitachi for $77, and will do a second RMA on the Seagate in a year when they figure out the product they released way too soon!

I'd be happy to hear of a class-action suit. This drive should be pulled from the market until it's right.

 

[hans007]

well supposedly the 7200.11 drives are fine once you have the SD1A firmware. they just released that firmware for all the sub 1.5TB drives (the 1.5TB drive had that firmware earlier on).

I mean they may have released the drive too early, or it wasj ust a bug in the firmware. At least its not some sort of physical problem with the actual drive mechanism like the infamous deathstars.

 

[Lurker1]

It depends upon your HD. Some get the SD1A firmware, others get the CC1H firmware. Seagate itself gives a rather unsatisfying answer to this. Hopefully the CC1H firmware is ok (initial reports say it has fixed the issues) as that's what my 2 came with.

BTW - if your particular drive should have SD1A, the CC1H firmware will brick it, and vice versa. Or so says Seagate.

BTW, I'm hoping Newegg gets a new stock of Hitachi 1TBs in. Those seems fine by all accounts, and 3 of those would serve as a nice back up for the 2 Seagates.

 

[Bobartig]

Ever since I had 3 WD drives fail in one SEMESTER at college, I haven't been able to stomach their drives. I didn't even use my computer that much. I eventually sold the 3rd replacement on eBay, then put a Maxtor, or Seagate (not a deathstar) in there and it lasted me the rest of college.

But seriously, what HDD maker isn't on somebody's blacklist these days? If you remember back far enough, they've all had a quality issue here or there.

... and that's not an apology for Seagate. They gotta get their stuff together. You don't mess around when it comes to hard drives.

 

[Bozo Galora]

http://www.anandtech.com/weblog/showpost.aspx?i=540

 

[hans007]

Originally posted by: Lurker1
It depends upon your HD. Some get the SD1A firmware, others get the CC1H firmware. Seagate itself gives a rather unsatisfying answer to this. Hopefully the CC1H firmware is ok (initial reports say it has fixed the issues) as that's what my 2 came with.

BTW - if your particular drive should have SD1A, the CC1H firmware will brick it, and vice versa. Or so says Seagate.

BTW, I'm hoping Newegg gets a new stock of Hitachi 1TBs in. Those seems fine by all accounts, and 3 of those would serve as a nice back up for the 2 Seagates.

the hitachi 7k1000 isn't very fast though. runs hot as wellsince its 5 platters.



the e7k1000 is nice, not sure its out yet.

 

[The0ne]

research!!

http://www.anandtech.com/weblog/showpost.aspx?i=540

Edit: ops, repost of above oh well...I have 2 after getting replacements however ; ;

 

[Lurker1]

Originally posted by: hans007
the hitachi 7k1000 isn't very fast though. runs hot as wellsince its 5 platters.

the e7k1000 is nice, not sure its out yet.

The 7K1000 is fast enough, at least for what I need. It will run cooler and quieter if you utilize this utility from Hitachi.

You are correct on speed: I'd love to get the .B 3 platter version for a sub $100 price, but I'll probably have to wait a few months for that to happen.

 

[zoiks]

Alternatively, the WD 1TB green drive is for 89.99 at your neighborhood Fry's on clearance.