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Seagate OEM 1.5TB Barracuda 7200.11 Internal Hard Disk Drive (7200RPM, 32MB Cache)
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Most Helpful First | Newest First | + Share25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
No problems with the latest version of this drive
(5 out of 5) by Jasper on Jan 19, 2009 (Beds, UK)Some of the early production runs of the 1.5TB Barracuda had problems with the installed firmware, causing mistiming issues which quickly rendered the drives unusable. I bought my drive just after Christmas and fortunately it already had the updated firmware installed (check the Seagate support discussion forum for details of the problem firmware) I installed my drive straight from the box, without any problems, and after a quick format it has worked perfectly ever since. It is a very quiet and fast drive, with the highest capacity currently available. Highly recommended.
17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
Excellent Drive!
(5 out of 5) by R. C. Crawford on Jan 10, 2009 (UK)I have been running with this drive since Nov 08 and I can only praise it so far. Absolutely 100% plug and play for me straight out of the box, and not a hiccup since.
You will only need to update motherboard drivers etc. *if* your computer needs updating for accessing all 1.5TB drives...which nothing to do with this drive in particular.
You will only need to update motherboard drivers etc. *if* your computer needs updating for accessing all 1.5TB drives...which nothing to do with this drive in particular.
23 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
Good product but fixes required
(3 out of 5) by Mr. Oliver Hubbard on Dec 6, 2008 (Liphook, UK)These babies have a monster capacity but be aware that they don't work 'out of the box' - well the ones I have didn't
First I had to update the nforce motherboard drivers so windows could recognise >1TB. Prior to the update windows would always fail at the formatting stage
After that I kept getting random lockups and freezes in Windows (sometimes at boot, sometimes when in an application). Some searching on the Seagate forums shows that this is a known issue. Seagate released updated firmware but you need to contact support to get this (or do some googling like I did).
I flashed both discs and they are running fine now
First I had to update the nforce motherboard drivers so windows could recognise >1TB. Prior to the update windows would always fail at the formatting stage
After that I kept getting random lockups and freezes in Windows (sometimes at boot, sometimes when in an application). Some searching on the Seagate forums shows that this is a known issue. Seagate released updated firmware but you need to contact support to get this (or do some googling like I did).
I flashed both discs and they are running fine now
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
excellent product
(5 out of 5) by R. Johnson on Mar 3, 2009 (UK)Just what it says on the box. I recently bought a MacPro which has 4 slots for hard drives, and this one fitted in, in about 5 seconds flat - literally. The back comes off, the tray slides out - you screw in the drive, and slide it back in - no fiddly connections - it's all tken care of.
What a price for 1.5Terrabytes !
Fab
What a price for 1.5Terrabytes !
Fab
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
Excellent Product, no problems at all with Firmware now.
(5 out of 5) by RMC on Apr 10, 2009 (UK)Bought one of these a week ago (April'09) , and so far very happy. Mine came with the latest firmware, the previous problems are clearly described on Seagate's support forum and they've resources there to check if your drive needs updating. Mine didn't, guess some of the older unhappy/problem reviews date from back then.
It is a 'bare' OEM drive as another reviewer said, but very well packaged as you'd expect from Amazon, with a sticker on the outside giving basic installation info if needed. What would you do with lots of expensive Seagate printed boxes after you fitted the drive anyway? Throw them away, that's what.
I fitted mine in a Dell Dimension, if you've one of those PCs you may like to know that Lindy's 17" Sata cable, sold on Amazon via Lindy reseller, is just right for Dells which stick the HDD drive bays right down at the bottom front of your PC, not in a stack up high with the rest of the drives as would be more normal. Sata of course means none of that fuss with jumpers to set and master/slave stuff in BIOS, but it also means you have to buy the Sata cable separately as you're unlikely to find a coiled up length in your old PC as in the older Pata/IDE drive PCs.
Windows initialised the drive, after boot up, following a worrying several minutes of saying nothing about the drive. No updates to my 4 year old PC were needed to accept the 1.5Tb drive, though I do tend to keep mine uptodate via Dell's own support pages.
Partitioning went fine, formatting such a large drive could of course take many hours, so be prepared to leave it running overnight perhaps.
In use, it's very quiet, hardly know it's there, and it just works. Must confess to be slightly 'edgy' about having so much storage in one unit, but thus far, I have nothing but praise for Seagate yet again.
It is a 'bare' OEM drive as another reviewer said, but very well packaged as you'd expect from Amazon, with a sticker on the outside giving basic installation info if needed. What would you do with lots of expensive Seagate printed boxes after you fitted the drive anyway? Throw them away, that's what.
I fitted mine in a Dell Dimension, if you've one of those PCs you may like to know that Lindy's 17" Sata cable, sold on Amazon via Lindy reseller, is just right for Dells which stick the HDD drive bays right down at the bottom front of your PC, not in a stack up high with the rest of the drives as would be more normal. Sata of course means none of that fuss with jumpers to set and master/slave stuff in BIOS, but it also means you have to buy the Sata cable separately as you're unlikely to find a coiled up length in your old PC as in the older Pata/IDE drive PCs.
Windows initialised the drive, after boot up, following a worrying several minutes of saying nothing about the drive. No updates to my 4 year old PC were needed to accept the 1.5Tb drive, though I do tend to keep mine uptodate via Dell's own support pages.
Partitioning went fine, formatting such a large drive could of course take many hours, so be prepared to leave it running overnight perhaps.
In use, it's very quiet, hardly know it's there, and it just works. Must confess to be slightly 'edgy' about having so much storage in one unit, but thus far, I have nothing but praise for Seagate yet again.