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Seagate ST31000340AS 1TB Barracuda Sata 7200 Rpm 32MB Cache 8.5MS Hard Drive

Manufacturer : Seagate
In Stock : 14

List Price:	$567.00
Price:	$113.95
You Save:	$453.05 (80%)

Features

1 TB SATA NCQ internal hard drive is ideal for performance PCs, gaming, workstations, desktop RAID, and more
32 MB cache buffer; 7200 RPM for fast read/write times
Perpendicular recording for increased data density
Adaptive Fly Height offers consistent read/write performance from the beginning to the end of your computing workload
5-year limited warranty

Product Description

The Barracuda 7200.11 drive offers the ideal combination of world-class technology and low totalcost of ownership. Highly leveraged from award-winning PMR technology the Barracuda 7200.11 Drive increases capacity per disk without increasing platter or head count. At the same time it enhances reliability by decreasing internal components and increasing magnetic stability at high areal densities.

Customer Reviews

Average Rating of 3.50 out of 16 reviews

Rating :
dead after 3 weeks - Jennie Holtzclaw, Nov 07, 2008

Just a little over 3 weeks old and it died. Seagate's poor overseas tech support, of no help, they offer to send a `refurbished' drive (a used one) to replace what I purchased NEW. Called Seagate Corporate, no help, selecting numbers to more automated script recorded voices. No option to get to a real person or a operator. Good bye Seagate, poor service, poor drive. Save you money. Run from this company.

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terrible packaging - Bookworm, Oct 30, 2008

While I believe this hard drive is an excellent product, the shipping practices are terrible. The drive was loose in the inner box, the fragile circuitry exposed to every bump. The drive did not work as a result, and I sent it back for a refund. I have since bought the same drive from a competitor for more, but it arrived safely, secured in the plastic bookends, and works quietly and quickly in my Mac Pro.

Rating :
works as expected. - Vitoco, Oct 27, 2008

I installed two 1TB barracuda disks into it. Formatted them, and was able to copy over files in just about 30 minutes from opening it from the box.

Rating :
1 Bad, 1 Good - D. Razorsek, Oct 25, 2008

I purchased two of these for use in a Drobo. One went bad in a week and now, a month later, I am still awaiting replacement from the vendor. I choose Seagate after a recent round of Western Digital failures, and the fact that Seagate has a major R&D center in my hometown. Sort of a support the "local" guy mentality. I hope I did not make a bad decision.

Rating :
Broke in less than 2 months - Chester Yee, Oct 21, 2008

I don't usually write reviews, but this is a frustrating experience that I don't want anyone else to have to live with.

I bought this item on August 25, 2008 and the installation was very smooth. I easily replaced my one 250 GB Western Digital that came with my desktop, and I was very excited about all the extra space that was going to be available in my new 1 TB Seagate.

I came home today (Oct 21, 2008) to see my computer boot up as "Boot disk failure," which basically means that my computer thinks I have no hard drive at all.

Now this message popped up once or twice a couple weeks before, but for those times, everyone worked fine again after a simple restart. (I should have known better and backed up my files, but I made the mistake of trusting this product for a bit bit longer)

I tried restarting countless times, but there was no hope in it this time. Now I was geek enough to open my desktop to try whatever I can to fix the problem, so I experimented using a different part of the power cable, plugging the SATA cable into different parts of the motherboard, switching the orientation of the SATA cable, and even putting it in my 3.5" SATA to USB enclosure. None of those worked. I heard the drive spinning, but both my desktop and my laptop (via USB) could not read any data from it, much less boot from it.

To confirm everything, I tested my original 250 GB Western Digital hard drive on my SATA enclosure, and that worked perfectly fine. I even put it back in my desktop and it boots up no problem. So the I was assured that my Seagate, and only my Seagate, has failed.

I'll admit that it's my fault for not ALWAYS backing up EVERYTHING. I guess I trusted Seagate a bit too much. I had almost 1/2 a TB of data in there that are now inaccessible, and I'll probably never see them again. I really didn't expect it to break down that fast. I don't even want to claim the warranty because I don't want to have it break down again and lose up to 1 TB of data again. And my Amazon return policy expired on Oct 2, just several weeks ago (how convenient).

My bottom line is to just RECONSIDER BUYING THIS PRODUCT if you treasure your data or if you know you don't readily have a back up for everything all the time.

I'll probably go back to Western Digital or something. Sorry, Seagate, you lost me with this one. Hard drives just leaves no room for such crummy reliability.

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