Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB stutters

Cheekykid · 4 Jan 2011 at 03:11

I bought this drive (ST31500341AS) recently and it keeps stuttering every now and then whenever i play a video from it. It is generally slowish to load files. Any idea what could be wrong? I run win7.

Cheekykid · 4 Jan 2011 at 03:45

Having read more about these drives and the awful clicking noise that they do I feel I did a big mistake buying one.

aproctor · 4 Jan 2011 at 08:13

Don't bother.

the .12 drives have been out a while are are no more expensive.

cottoneye · 4 Jan 2011 at 10:10

uh oh! I just bought two to be used in RAID 0

edit: have you tried to upgrade the firmware, seems to be an issue when used in a nas etc

Cheekykid · 6 Jan 2011 at 01:06

My hard drive just went bust all of a sudden. The rumours that these drives are crap seem well justified. Noisy and unreliable. AVOID!!