Rating: - Hopefully it doesn't die on me...
I got two of these for Christmas (for a software RAID) and immediately knew that something was off. The BIOS took a while to scan one of the SATA ports and eventually failed, unable to find a drive. "Great, DOA" I thought.. After a few reboots, the system did find the drive, but it also said there was a SMART failure. smartmontools showed a failing drive with a Spin_Retry_Count of 54, along with a number of concerning values on other attributes, and the drive was unable to pass short self-tests. ... Read More
Rating: - An obsolete drive - most shouldn't buy this unless the price fits your use
This drive uses an older, lower density, slower, hotter-running configuration (four drive platters). Most people shouldn't buy this ST31000340AS drive at this point unless you get a really good price on it, and plan to use it only for backup storage (and ideally not run 24/7).
The current version is the newer three platter Seagate 1TB ST31000333AS 32MB Cache SATA Hard Drive. Given the importance of a drive and the time you'll spend installing and using it, spend a few dollars more ... Read More
Rating: - Big problems
Stay well away from these drives. They have a major firmware bug that will set the drive to busy, and lock you out. No PC's BIOS will not be able to see the drive. You will lose your data and get a refurbed drive back from Seagate that may well do the same again.
There are loads of stories about this all over the web, even on Seagate's own forums, but they deny there is a problem. I had one of these drive die in six weeks with no warning at all.
Rating: - Very Happy!
I ordered these drives to be used with a Drobo and so far, they are working GREAT! I agree with some others, that they are a bit noisy in the Drobo cabinet, but its no big deal for me because everything is located in a Broadcast Data Center for the radio station I operate so noise is no big deal. I am using the drives to backup music files as well as an image of 3 computers on the network, and so far could not be happier. The drives were packaged ok, in that they had plastic ends supporting them ... Read More
Rating: - 100% failure rate - Bad Batch?
Purchased 2 from Amazon, both failed within a few days of using. This may be a bad batch from China because it looks like failures on other posts were manufactured around the same time.
One drive gave I/O errors the other just disappeared from the machine. Unfortunately they were both ROOT drives for my machines so I wasted a lot of time trying to recover.
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Electronics : Seagate 1TB Barracuda 7200.11 Bulk/OEM Hard Drive ST31000340AS
- Hopefully it doesn't die on me...
- Big problems
- Very Happy!