Customer reviews for the Seagate 1.5TB Barracuda 7200RPM SATA-300 32MB

Surprisingly fast

Reviewed by Hari Karam Singh. Review Posted 11/06/2009

I put on of these in about a month ago. I just ran some benchmarks and realised its 2x as fast (read rate) as my slightly older 320GB Barracudas!

I own 6 or these drives now, the others for backups via the Thermaltake docking bay. I've never had a problem with a Barracuda drive yet and they are always incredibly quiet.

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No problems with latest firmware versions

Reviewed by Jasper. Review Posted 22/01/2009

Bought one of these drives at Christmas and it came with the CC1G firmware installed. Seagate have acknowledged that there are bugs in the earlier SDxx series of firmware and are working on a fix at the moment. Drives with CCxx or LCxx firmware are not affected. The drive formatted without any problems and is very quiet and fast. Recommended - just check the firmware revision before installing & obtain a flash update from Seagate, if necessary.

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try keeping them cool...

Reviewed by Adam. Review Posted 10/01/2009

I've had 2 in a server for last 3 months. No problems at all. But I always seem to be very lucky with reliable hardware, maybe because I have a cooling fetish -- server has 9 12v fans running @ 5v, so they're very quiet but move plenty of air, plus an Akasa drive cooler on each disk (ruuning at 7v (connected between +5 and +12 rails). Disk temp currently 22C, max thrashing in warm office, 27C. Result: quiet office, reliable gear....

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Warranty reducing!

Reviewed by JohnR. Review Posted 16/12/2008

Could there be a connection? I quote Seagate:

"Effective January 3, 2009, Seagate® will be making some important changes to its limited warranty terms for selected bare drive products.
The warranty period for consumer electronics, notebook and personal storage bare drives sold to Seagate Authorised Distributors will be changed from 5 to 3 years. Seagate believes that the new warranty period and terms better reflect current industry standards." Go figure!

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What a pile of rubbish

Reviewed by Chris. Review Posted 12/11/2008

***AVOID AT ALL COSTS*** I lost 3.5TB of data when two of these hung at the same time in my RAID array (drobo) and it assumed they had both failed so eject two disks at once from the pack So much for Alex's "reliable" i cant believe seagate actually shipped these seriously flawed drives it was evidently in the rush to be "first" for 1.5Tb drives,they simply didnt do enough testing and the end users are now paying the price

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Yes, go on Alex ...

Reviewed by . Review Posted 10/09/2008

Post a link to your review.

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Alex....

Reviewed by Chris. Review Posted 08/09/2008

If you had two of these for "review" i assume you had them for a couple of weeks, max. How can you possibly comment on how reliable they are? because they didnt fail on you for the week or two in which you had them???

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Buy one!

Reviewed by Alex. Review Posted 25/08/2008

I was lucky enough to test 2 of these drives for a review. Massive, VERY fast and reliable. Only problem is having so much data in one place....backing up starts to become daunting. Buy 2 and use a mirrored RAID array!

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No Data Cable Supplied

Reviewed by John. Review Posted 19/03/2009

Very good hard drive but just to warn anyone, there is no data cable supplied with this!

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Working in a RAID?

Reviewed by Robert. Review Posted 03/08/2009

Can anyone recommend a RAID 5 PCI card that these will work with?

They dont work with my adaptec 2410SA card, and Im struggling to find any info on a card they DO work on...

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