Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5 TB SATA 32 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Hard Drive ST31500341AS
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5 TB SATA 32 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Hard Drive ST31500341AS see short title
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The Barracuda 7200.11 drive delivers up to 43 percent power savings over the previous Seagate desktop generation without sacrificing performance, giving customers the ability to manufacture eco-friendly PC systems and external storage systems that meet energy-savings requirements. Like all other Seagate drives, the Barracuda 7200.11 product family complies with the Restriction of Hazardous Substance (RoHS) directive that limits the use of hazard... » full description
The Barracuda 7200.11 drive delivers up to 43 percent power savings over the previous Seagate desktop generation without sacrificing performance, giving customers the ability to manufacture eco-friendly PC systems and external storage systems that meet energy-savings requirements. Like all other Seagate drives, the Barracuda 7200.11 product family complies with the Restriction of Hazardous Substance (RoHS) directive that limits the use of hazardous materials in electronic goods.With the Barracuda 7200.11 drive, our customers can have the best of both worlds—top hard-drive performance and a high-capacity drive with a very small eco-footprint. Seagate is committed to minimizing the impact of our products and operations on the environment. We have implemented production efficiency measures, such as replacing or renovating less-efficient equipment, resulting in a 20 percent increase in production efficiency on a perhard-drive basis. In just six months this delivered a savings of 158.93 million kWh, or enough energy to power nearly 15,000 U.S. homes for one year. Seagate also has deployed aggressive waste minimization and recycling programs in facilities worldwide. « short desciption
User Reviews
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Review Date: 2009-11-24
I bought two of these 7200.11 model drives in October 2009. One failed immediately and I got a replacement. Over the next month the click-click-click of death began and the drives began to fail.
They say that there is a firmware update that fixes this, but in my case it either wasn't applied, or there is more of a problem than they think.
Now, the vendor was not Amazon -- it was Fry's and maybe the batches are different -- but I still won't touch the Seagate 7200.11 line for any amount of "savings." YMMV.
User: Kevin Murphy
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Summary: Three purchases all failed within a month (10/2009)
Helpful Votes: 1
Total Votes: 1
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Review Date: 2009-11-23
I got my Seagate through Bing Cashback and saved a bundle, and I use it as my daily backup storage (via Retrospect) and I have been very happy. No problems whatsoever and the drive is fast and reliable. For secondary backup I also have a Western Digital drive.
User: PS3MyLuv
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Summary: Great drive for a great price
Helpful Votes: 0
Total Votes: 1
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Review Date: 2009-11-17
Okay I used to be a Seagate fanatic since I've used their drives for years and never once had to RMA one. I even got an old 15GB cheetah scsi drive that still works from like 2001! But this drive I don't know where Seagate quality control was when they made this one? I've had this drive a year and I still don't trust it and expect it to fail any day now that's how bad Seagate has fallen in my eyes. I mean it's not just the firmware fiasco it's my firsthand experience with this drive. After a couple of months it started running really slow and I would get these weird pauses playing back video or anything intensive on the drive. Never experienced anything like it before. Well the firmware update seemed to have fixed that. But soon after that I started getting strange noises from the drive so of course I ran seagate diagnostic tools to make sure it wasn't dying but it insisted the drive was good so that left me with no alternative but to complete format the drive and start over. That seems to have gotten rid of the noisy seeking of the drive for a while at least because now it's back! I was going to run seagate tools again but what do you know their software isn't compatible with Windows 7! so it looks like I'll have to find my bootable seagate diagnostic tools disc and see if I have to RMA the drive this time before the warranty runs out on it and before I lose my data! I'm just waiting now to find a reliable 2TB drive now since I also bought a Western Digital 2TB thinking they would be more reliable but no that one actually died already and I had to RMA it so if anyone knows of anyone that makes a reliable drive these days please let the rest of us know!
User: Jaime Moreno
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Summary: Still don't trust this drive
Helpful Votes: 2
Total Votes: 5
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Review Date: 2009-11-13
Items arrived quickly in manufacturer's original packaging. They were installed in an Intel SS4200 NAS server. They started up flawlessly, are quiet and quick, and have done everything they were expected to do.
User: James L. Griffin
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Summary: Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5 TB SATA 32 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Hard Drive ST31500341AS
Helpful Votes: 1
Total Votes: 2
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Review Date: 2009-11-12
I've recently become concerned about Seagate hard disk reliability and build quality
A 1TB model failed in less than 1 year
the drive started having booting issues and then made horrible
metal on metal sounds, and would start.. (head crash)
A Win7 upgrade went poorly using this 1.5T drive, \
file system was corrupted some how, and check disk wouldn't complete.
also reviews at newegg and other online sites confirmed similar reliability issues by other seagate custmers
a recent purchase of HP business desktops,revealed a warning about SeaGate firmware
needing an update.or drives would unexpectedly fail to boot.
i was forced to reformat the drive for safety and do a fresh Win7 install
and reinstall all my apps; 2 days of unnecessary work.
i purchased WD 2.0 Terrabyte as my primary drive, and forced the SeaGate to service as a
temporary backup drive. i have USB/Firewire MyBook drives as primary backup systems.
overall, I was quite fond of SeaGate until i experienced these problems
I'm going to move to WD as my primary hard drive, and wouldn't recommend using this
drive as a primary boot device until some evidence of improvement occurs...
User: K. Westphal
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Summary: Concerns about Seagate
Helpful Votes: 1
Total Votes: 2
Product Details
- Ships in Certified Frustration-Free Packaging
- Spindle Speed is 7,200 RPM
- Delivers 1.5 TB capacity, 32 MB Cache; interface option is SATA 3 GB/s NCQ
- Ships with the industry's most reliable and proven perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology
- Consumes up to 43 percent less power during idle than previous products, enabling customers to build low-power syste ms
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