Seagate Barracuda 1.5TB - ST31500341AS

Kalpsn2000

Kalpsn2000

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I have seen this drive around and it is only about £20 more then the 1TB version.

Is there a reason for the low price? Are there any known issues?
 
Got 4 of them in a RAID 5 box.

No problems with them - don't seem to suffer from the firmware issue that plagues the 1TB drive
 
Kalpsn2000 said:
I have seen this drive around and it is only about £20 more then the 1TB version.

Is there a reason for the low price? Are there any known issues?
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I've had one for a couple of months now, not been effected by the firmware problems at all (running CC1G, which was installed when I got them).

Really good drives, I get 120MB/s+ transfer speed between the two that I have as well :)
 
I've been doing some reading about this drive and there are some articles about a 'Freezing issue'.

Anyone heard of this?

EDIT:

Just seen that there has been a firmware update to solve the problem.;)
 
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Harbz said:
Whats the warrenty on these drives? Some sites are saying 3 years, some are saying 5.
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Seagate recently downgraded the warranty period on all their hard drives, worth getting the extra 2 years if you can still find it offered. They're the exact same drive though.
 
So are the 7200.11 1.5TB drives safe to buy? I would rather not have to update the firmware (can it go wrong and b0rk the drive?).
 
are these safe to buy now?

Any problems in running this a boot system drive (partitioned), or should i just stick to using it as a data dump drive?
 
My plan is to use it as a second backup. I have been reading about lots of HD failures recently and its made me a bit paranoid.

I have a 1TB F1 for data storage and gonna use this cuda to back that up.

EDIT:

My drive was delivered at work this morning. Decided to check the serial on the Seagate firmware checker and it says 'Drive is not affected' 'No action required'.

Good news...now to get it installed when I get home. I just realised that once thats done I will have 3 different HD brands in my pc (WD, Samsung, Seagate)
 
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ChrisLX200 said:
Seagate recently downgraded the warranty period on all their hard drives, worth getting the extra 2 years if you can still find it offered. They're the exact same drive though.
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You'll probably find that that's a mistake on the internet sellers site, no idea if you'd be able to argue that it was stated as 5 years when purchased.
 
I ordered one of these on Friday when they were on special for £103 inc.

I should be getting it tomorrow, but now I'm having second thoughts on if I should keep it or not.

Basically I just need some reassurance to put my mind at rest.

Incidently the only hard drive that has failed on me was a 3 week old Samsung F1 750gig in oct 2008.
 
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