Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 - hard drive - 1.5 TB - SATA-300

• Average user rating: 2.0 stars out of 5 reviews
• My rating: 0 stars

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• 8 stars

  HUGE, big, noisy, did I mention HUGE?

  by MrWareWolf on May 14, 2009

  Pros: FAST. Even when saturated with I/O traffic for hours on end, these things keep chugging away. Barracuda & 32mb buffer; kind of says it all..

  Cons: Noisy. Mine has always made a weird seek/re-seek sort of sound, but hasn't failed me yet. Worked like this from day one, so I have no complaints. Checked SMART drive stats to be sure, and it's all a-ok.

  Summary: People reported there were issue's with certain models of this drive, and I checked into this as I integrated it into my system. I had a newer rev in ...

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  Summary: People reported there were issue's with certain models of this drive, and I checked into this as I integrated it into my system. I had a newer rev in their internal bios, than the problem models, so I had no issues. I plugged into a cheapie PCIe card I got for $15. I get same input and output rates as the older 500gb model I have, from the Barracuda family. I'm sold. These are great.

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  1 out of 1 users found this user opinion helpful.

• 2 stars

  Astonishingly Horrible

  by Zefram on January 15, 2009

  Pros: It comes in a pretty box.

  Cons: It fails and corrupts the data. The manufacturer's recovery software, for both windows and DOS, crashes. The web site offers no assistance and the "chat" technicians hang up on you.

  Summary: Bought two drives, one in July 08 and the second in Dec 08. Bought the second because the first had a corrupted boot sector, and now the second has the ...

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  Summary: Bought two drives, one in July 08 and the second in Dec 08. Bought the second because the first had a corrupted boot sector, and now the second has the same issue less than a month after I purchased it. Tech support is shrugging their shoulders (after a 45 minute wait to speak with someone and another two hours on the phone) and Seagate's engineers deny that their software is broken even though it's a known issue on their web site forum for over a year and a half. I have now spent over two weeks of man hours trying to restore all of my data, because now the newly-minted drive is broken as well. I'm sticking with Western Digital's black series.
  
  DO NOT BUY SEAGATE PRODUCTS! CAVEAT EMPTOR!

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  1 out of 2 users found this user opinion helpful.

• 2 stars

  High Failure rate

  by DNA3e8 on November 25, 2008

  Pros: Big. 1.5 TB is a nice size

  Cons: 1st one failed in a few weeks the replacement failed in a few dayes

  Summary: DON"T Get IT

  Summary: DON"T Get IT

  1 out of 2 users found this user opinion helpful.

• 10 stars

  Great Drive!

  by Kapman2 on September 7, 2009

  Pros: Very Quiet
  Very Fast
  Massive Storage
  Trouble Free

  Cons: No cons that I can find.

  Summary: I replaced my internal Hard Drive about a 2 months ago since my old WD Raptor died. The drive has transformed my Dell Precision PC with dual 3ghz Xeons. It ...

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  Summary: I replaced my internal Hard Drive about a 2 months ago since my old WD Raptor died. The drive has transformed my Dell Precision PC with dual 3ghz Xeons. It boots up faster than anything I have ever seen. And its running in SATA mode, not SATA 2! On top of it, I can't hear the drive it is so quiet. I highly recommend it.
  This is how I installed a 1.5 TB Seagate hard drive:
  http://ellipz.com/?p=101

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• 2 stars

  Drive is not recognized with my system

  by phenom360 on August 4, 2009

  Pros: 1TB was $81 in Bestbuy.

  Cons: Didn't work.

  Summary: The mother board recognizes it as 32 mb only, I am pretty much sure I paid the price for 1 TB.Tried all combinations on Bios/Motherboard/Harddisk.. doesn't ...

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  Summary: The mother board recognizes it as 32 mb only, I am pretty much sure I paid the price for 1 TB.Tried all combinations on Bios/Motherboard/Harddisk.. doesn't work.
  Planning to return this one and try Western Digital.
  My mother supports SATA drives with 3 GB/s and has a working SATA Blue ray Dvd player.

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