Jean-Francois_D
05/09/13
Experience: 2 Days
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Quiet, Fast
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The size
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I take this hdd because all baracuda new serie drive have some clicky noise. This serie are before the new serie, run great no click, great performance. The only thing anoying its the thickness of the drive.
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Charles-Olivier_M
04/19/13
Experience: 1 Days
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- Good price for the size
- Warranty is ok
- Well built (solid)
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- Not the best performance
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It is a good stockage SATA hard drive.
It is used in a DVR for surveillance camera system. 1To is pretty enough of filming depending on the quality
Would recommend for stockage, not for a system drive.
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m0pelley99
04/16/13
Experience: 5 Months
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Speed
Performance
Noise
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None
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I bought two of these for $50 a piece and have not looked back. They are - in my opinion - better than Western Digital drives. I've always gone with WD in the past but my last few drives really crapped out in performance and ended up getting noisy within a year. Not to mention the few previous drives I owned from WD did not support APM (an important feature in my mind).
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Ken_W
04/09/13
Experience: 1 Weeks
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cheap and good speed
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none
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2nd one i've so far. build system myself and for a friend. good price and relatively fast speed. recommand.
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Doug_the_Slug
02/24/13
Experience: 3 Months
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Cheap Storage
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None found yet
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Need 4x for a NAS. Kind of a catch 22 though since I want preformance, but don't need the capacity since their total capacity is combined inside the NAS.
The only way to get better performance is to get larger capacity. SSDs are overkill and would be bottlenecked by the NAS. So these drives are a compromise, and at least they were relatively cheap on boxing day at 60$ a pop.
They've been solid for 3 months so far, no complaints with respect to performance.
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Mark_V
02/22/13
Experience: 5 Months
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-Decent price/storage ratio
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died on me within 9 months
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Well was a fine drive while it lasted. One day booted up and got the click of death. One thing was good $9.99 for an express RMA to seagate had a new drive in 4 days.
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_-Artash-_
02/17/13
Experience: 2 Months
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fast drive for storage.
great drive in general.. not much to say
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non
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Got this to store my movie library.. fast.. simple... awesome..
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mooju
02/15/13
Experience: 1 Weeks
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Seems pretty quiet for a mechanical drive
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none so far
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I got this as a storage drive to supplement a ssd drive. It is working well and I hope I get a long life out of it. I have bought seagate drives for a long time and they seem to be good for about 4 years before crapping out. Too bad they don't have as good a warranty as they used to.
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FRANCIS_C
01/27/13
Experience: 2 Months
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hassle free
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Nothing to say at this time...
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This is a nice HDD, quiet, fast, works well !
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Brad_O
01/23/13
Experience: 2 Months
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Cheap drive
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7200.12 drive brings back memories of 7200.11 series
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I bought this drive expecting an older model drive that would be cheaper. That's what I got. It's still working after two months and hopefully will stay reliable. These seem to run hotter than the 7200.14 series but that's just from handling the drives, I haven't recorded actual temperatures.
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Jonathan_S
01/14/13
Experience: 5 Days
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Works fine
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none
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I bought this drive to be used inside an old server. It works perfectly fine at SATA 1 speed.
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Alan_C
01/12/13
Experience: 4 Days
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nice and cheap
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none
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Great hard drive used in raid configuration. I have owned this hard drive before and have not had any problems
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Imad_G
01/12/13
Experience: 1 Months
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-Great price when on sale
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-Only con of a hard drive is life ... Have only been using these for about one month and no problems as of yet
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This is a great product to pick up when it comes on sale. I picked it up for a budget build on Black Friday for $50. So far no complaints from the user (a family member). If purchasing at regular price, however, I would suggest getting the 64Mb cache version of this 1Tb hard drive for $5 more.
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Gabriel_F
01/10/13
Experience: 4 Weeks
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-Fast
-Reliable
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None yet
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Bought it while on sale. Great product, would recommend.
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Camden_M
01/06/13
Experience: 30 Days
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- Fast
- Quiet
- Inexpensive
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None
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So far I am very happy with this drive. It is fast for a mechanical drive and it is pretty quiet as well.
Great for a media drive along side a SSD for running your OS.
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AceOnRiv
01/03/13
Experience: 7 Months
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Fast for an HDD
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Can get pretty loud
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This is a good choice for people who don't want to pay for an SSD. Its not as a fast as a WD Caviar Black but has (had? price have increased due to shortages) a better cost per GB.
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sharon_l
01/02/13
Experience: 40 Days
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none to date
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Dead on Arrival
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Excessive clicking noise and both hard drives were dead. Packaging was okay but the box was too large for the two hard drives and would've been bouncing around inside the box. First order from NCIX and received no hard drives in working condition. Not great.
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Zag
12/27/12
Experience: 10 Days
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Price
Good service with Seagate
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warranty
sata
32 mb cache
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Its ok for backup all files. Must be SataII at least and 2 years warranty but hey, the price is good so... Seagate have great service and tool if something happen.
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Ellis G.
12/26/12
Experience: 5 Weeks
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lots of space
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not very fast
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Would by again if I was in need of a additional storage for my computer. But I will stick with other drives if speed is a must.
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sébastien_g
12/18/12
Experience: 2 Weeks
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capacity
fast
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none
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good hard drive for 49.99$ . i recommanded it good quality/price
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FortyNinjaFISH
12/17/12
Experience: 1 Months
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fast drive, would recommend to new buyers
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none
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was able to pick up on sale and very happy with the purchase. just had to initialize the drive.
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coach1973
12/17/12
Experience: 17 Days
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big and cheap
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still iffy on seagate products
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got this for 49.99 and at that price its hard to beat i havent seen a 1tb since preflood days go down that cheap and havent had any issue with it . will buy it again
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Kevin_F
12/15/12
Experience: 14 Days
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Large,Cheap
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None so far
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Bought it for 50$ on Black Friday, its nice to throw everything on one drive for storage as ai have an SSD as my main boot/OS drive
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SixDs
12/06/12
Experience: 3 Days
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Inexpensive (relatively)
Quiet
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None so far
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Well, I've only had them for three days, so barring a DOA its pretty hard to have much in the way of cons. That is the problem with reviews, especially for hard drives - the products are always new and testing is limited to a short time frame. While people may be concerned with noise, heat and performance, most are at least equally concerned with reliability since they usually plan on using their drives for years. Well, this one certainly isn't the fastest drive, but I would be surprised if most people expected it to be. It has two platters and only 32 MB of cache compared, for example, to the slightly more expensive single platter, 64 MB cache sibling Seagate offers.
I got two of these drives on sale for about fifty bucks apiece, which is a pretty decent deal these days, and since they were destined for my backup server, raw speed wasn't the biggest issue. I do hope that they last, but, unless they decide to fail at the same time as one of the drives I've backed up to them, even that won't be critical. They both made it through full formats (ugh!) okay, so here's hoping.
Would I reall buy again? Time will tell. I can only give them four stars for now under the circumstances, not because I have any problems with the drives, but because I have no good way of knowing if I will going forward.
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DirtyMildew
12/06/12
Experience: 2 Days
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Just what I needed for the price!! Storage... Nothing to brag about. But does what its made to do.... Very Happy...
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None as of yet!!
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Packaging was good. Easy installation process. I was going to go bigger, but its not needed as yet... Will get another very soon, with more terabytes though...
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Kévin_G
12/04/12
Experience: 1 Weeks
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-Good performance
-quiet
-not heating
-price
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-nothing
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Good ncix delivery delay (3 days).
I have nothing to say about this HDD.
It just have good performance, and he is quiet for this price.
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Matthew_C
12/03/12
Experience: 15 Days
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cheap 1 tb drive
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?
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Works great, haven't noticed any problems yet, but I have yet to push it to any limits.
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Alan_H
11/27/12
Experience: 1 Days
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Its not clicking.
Bought it for $50
Seems ok so far
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When it first went to sleep
it scared the crap out of me
it seems to shut down loudly :/
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If it lasts long enough its good but I dont think I will buy another one at 32mb cache so I have to give it 3 stars.
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mathieu_j
11/24/12
Experience: 1 Days
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seagate is a good company
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none
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1tb at 49.99 is a great deal. seagate is a very good company. i already have 2 external hard drive from seagate and didn't have any problems at all with it
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Terry_S
11/15/12
Experience: 4 Months
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Easy to install.
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A few hiccups finding it in the OS afterwards, but that was my lack of OS knowledge and not the drive itself.
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The new drive is working great for me now. No issues that I've noticed, and the space is great to have. I've been downloading more games from Steam onto it and had no problems using it ever since.
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Adrian_P
11/07/12
Experience: 1 Weeks
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Fast, quiet, not DOA, great price for 1Tb capacity
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None yet
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Excellent drive, fast seek times, stays cool, no complaints whatsoever
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Derek_Z
08/26/12
Experience: 5 Days
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Value, storage amount
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Speed not quite that fast
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Not extremely fast or cutting edge, but the price isn't bad, especially with the high HDD prices. Recommended if speed is not a priority and if you are on a budget.
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Olivier_f
07/16/12
Experience: 30 Days
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Good capacity
good price
good speed
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none
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I use this drive in RAID1 for a small video media center and its perfect.
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MVCC
06/04/12
Experience: 5 Days
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Very Good-Would Purchase Again
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Very Good-Would Purchase Again
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Very Good-Would Purchase Again
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The Nach
05/09/12
Experience: 1 Days
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Cheap. Simple install.
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Better technology available for similar price
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Have owned several Seagate Baraccuda's. Not sure why I keep buying them, because they seem to die at around the 3 year mark.
With SSD's out, these are great for additional storage/backup considering the amount of GB you get for the price.
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Mike_K
05/02/12
Experience: 1 Weeks
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Good solid drive for low price
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Not as fast as a lot of the other similar drives
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I have never had issues with seagate drives, they run well for their price. The readwrite speed is noticably slower compared to a black drive, but considering the price, its the best choice for storage.
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PLP
02/24/12
Experience: 2 Days
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-Silencious
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None
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This is a really good hard drive and you won't have problems buying from Seagate. This is for me the best Hard drive company at the moment.
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Mohammad_Z
01/29/12
Experience: 5 Days
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Fast, reliable, easy installing
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none
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Fast drive, good transfer rate and easy installing is all I can say. Price is a bit high but its a decent drive. I am using it for a gaming rig and had no problems till today!
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Ryan_K
01/16/12
Experience: 2 Months
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Value, speed
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None
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Good value for a hard drive. I have bought a few of these and they hold up fairly well.
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yucereal
01/09/12
Experience: 1 Days
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Good and reliable
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Expensive at the moment
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What can you say, it works but it is not the best in class in terms of performance.
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Andrew_L
01/06/12
Experience: 3 Years
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Durable
Quiet
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Not the same warranty as the old school Seagates(5 years)
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Bought this a few years back on boxing day and it has held up. Runs good and haven't had issues. Since then I have switched to WD drives as they run a bit cooler and I don't trust Maxtor too much(have had bad experiences before and found out they bought Seagate).
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autumn_u
01/05/12
Experience: 10 Days
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great value, good performance
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no complaints
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I've always had very good luck with seagate drives, and this is no exception. No problems, perfectly good performance. I'm only using it as a backup drive, and for this price, I have no complaints.
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brett_j
12/30/11
Experience: 3 Years
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Prices as well as other drives at the time had a 5 year warranty. The retail boxed versions still do. Have ran rather well in my 6 drive raid 5 setup 24/7 for 3+ years with rather heavy use and there not designed to do this.
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They do fail three of the drives have failed. They did this quite slowly and smart did let me know first. All three also died within 3 months of each other. Still under the warranty.
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For general usage they seem alright. Heavy usage does seem to kill them quicker. Im sure some are just bad out of the box but lots of computer stuff is that way. If using for special setup should probably use a enterprise rated drive.
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Z06Frank
12/30/11
Experience: 3 Months
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7200RPM, 32MB Cache
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none
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Great HD have used may of these and they perform great and seem to be quite stable.
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Marco_A
12/27/11
Experience: 1 Weeks
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1TB drive that is cheaper than WD black drives
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not cheap
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Needed to build a HTPC, grabbed this harddrive because it's the cheapest 1TB out there. Still quite expensive since the thailand flood. Works good with my build though:
Gigabyte GA-E350N
Kingston SSDNow V100 Series 64GB
Seagate Barracuda ST31000524AS 7200.12 1TB
Kingston HyperX KHX1600C9D3K2/8GX 8GB
Apex MI-008 MINI-ITX Case
MSI Btoes 2.1 Bluetooth Micro Dongle
LG BH12LS38 12X Blu Ray Rewriter
ASUS PCE-N15 300Mbps 802.11B/G/N Wireless PCI-E
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Wai_F
12/20/11
Experience: 4 Months
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Very cheap (at least when I bought it 4 months ago).
Good enough for the average user. Not loud at all and plenty of space.
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none
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I got it 4 months ago and it was on sale for $62. It's the cheapest out of performance and space especially for a HDD with 32mb cache which is a really good deal.
Seagate brands are really nice.
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Kevin_S
12/09/11
Experience: 5 Months
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Fast for an HDD
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Can get pretty loud
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This is a good choice for people who don't want to pay for an SSD. Its not as a fast as a WD Caviar Black but has (had? price have increased due to shortages) a better cost per GB.
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THEE_MOnKey_MO!!
11/26/11
Experience: 2 Weeks
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1tb
still affordable compared to WD drives during the shortage
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not as realible as Western Digital
Idk about any other owner but it seems louder than my WD black drive
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its fast, and somewhat quiet, gets loud when it caches a lot of data. They can be PM'ed down to $120 so its relatively affordable compared to the WD drives that have skyrocketd in price since the flooding.
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Lucas_C
11/05/11
Experience: 1 Days
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works well, does its job
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none
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Wasn't for me and got this on special. the regular price seems high, I got a better HDD for 80$
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Andrew_W
11/04/11
Experience: 3 Weeks
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- Very cheap (was $55 pricematched)
- Big (1TB of storage is a lot)
- Really fast (60 - 130 MB/s transfer rates in HD Tune, 240 MB/s burst rate)
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- I surface scan tested the drive in Victoria and it had some sectors at the ~200ms range.
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So far, the drive has been pretty good. I really like how fast it is compared to older IDE and SATA hard drives. The transfer rates on this drive are quite good.
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