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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 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. more info
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Will cost me a lot to fill it!!!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Im satisfied with the purchase of this HDD. A SATA 3Gb/s Hard Disk with 1.5 TB (1500 GIGABYTES), 32 MB CACHE, 7200 RPM WAOO!! (I CAN NOT BELIEVE THAT I PURCHASED IT FOR 100 DOLLARS). I have read some reviews that said it’s the best HDD of 1.5TB in the market. Will cost me a lot to fill it!
It Works, but It’s Noisy
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
Pros: cheap ($39), free shipping, faster than the HDD it replaced in my HP Slimline (Seagate drive).
Cons: it’s noisy. I have worked with HDDs for 25 years, and I know a noisy drive. Packaging is rather weak. I’ll keep the drive, though, since it is used in my backup PC, and I have already reloaded 95 percent of my apps.
Next time I’ll spend a little more and get a Western Digital Caviar.
Unit defective twice
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
I bought this HD after I checked some previous reviews about this product so I took the decision to get it. The first week I got my first drive I started having problems with it because sometimes it was not recognized by the Bios and sometimes it was. One week after it never came up. I delivered the defective one and one I got the replacement it worked fine for 1 year. Now it is not recognized either by the seatools for Windows software or the Bios. I have to send it back again.
Nice
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I’ve been using this for periodic backups rather than sustained use, but it works just as well. It’s quiet, fast, and was inexpensive. No problems in over a month.
Dead in 2 months
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
Bought 2 of these for use in a Synology NAS. One of 2 dead in about 2 months. After 2 months operating fine, got an error that the drive array was compromised by Synology OS. Was able to resync the bad drive back into the mirror array, worked ok for a couple days, then a loud clicking from the same drive.
Fortunately the drive is under Seagate warranty, but dead in 2 months? The Synology NAS is on a UPS and only used for backups of 2 PCs so it does not receive power spikes, nor is it heavily used. The Seagate on-line return process is fairly painless, but who keeps original packaging after 2 months? Not me! Seagate makes you very carefully package the returned product or they can refuse the warranty replacement. I have a feeling the other original drive may die as well. I’ll be sure to keep the packaging from the first replacement drive.
Thank goodness I was using the Synology device that caught the error and will allow me to resync the data to the new drive once it arrives.
Another one bites the dust
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
Over the last 2+ decades I’ve owned hundreds of hard drives. I can say with certainty that the Seagate 1.5 TB drive is the worst of the lot, and not by a little.
At the moment, I’ve got 22 drives in service. 12 of them are Seagate 1 TB enterprise (ES) drives. 6 of them are WD 160 MB drives. 4 of them are Seagate 1.5 TB drives. Over the last six months I’ve had 7 drive failures. 5 of them have been Seagate 1.5 TB drives (the other two were ancient WD-160′s). You read that right – 5 failures in a pool of 4 drives.
These are not heat or power related failures. The servers run behind a high-end power conditioning UPS and are well ventilated; the drives are barely warm to the touch when I swap them out.
I wouldn’t recommend these drives to my worst enemy.
Just to be clear, my problem is specifically with the Seagate 1.5 TB drives. Their 1 TB drives seem to be very reliable.
Super Seagate!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
This 7200 rpm drive is superior to the 5900 rpm model for sale in some “Big Box” Electronics store. Works Great.
Seagate 1.5 TB Hard Drive Arrived DOA – Will Not Power-up
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
Seagate quality control failed me. The 1.5TB hard drive I ordered through amazon.com arrived DOA. It will not power up. I have ordered Seagate hard drives in the past from amazon.com without any quality issues. Seagate quality control should be adequate to prevent dead drives from being shipped to customers. Has anyone purchased Western Digital hard drives recently? I purchased Western Digital drives in the 1990′s and was happy with their products at that time.
Only time will tell if the product is any good. For now it works.
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Only time (not enough of which has passed so far) will tell if the product is any good. For now it works.
Install on older IDE computer works with right adapter
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
This is a duel review for two products that I bought with the idea that they would be used together and they did this well. The products are the Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5 Terabyte (1.5TB) SATA/300 7200RPM 32MB Hard Drive and the SATA to PATA/IDE Hard Drive Interface Adapter. I hope this will help somebody who has the same problem that I had. I have a Dell Precision WorkStation 350 computer that had a 40GB IDE hard drive. I wanted to upgrade to a larger drive and settled on the 1.5 TB Seagate Barracuda 7200.11, which is SATA II. My old computer does not have a SATA connection so I bought the PATA to SATA adapter with the idea that I would plug the adapter into the hard drive and attach it to my external IDE hard drive case (cage) then plug it into the USB port. I had to leave the Seagate drive outside the case and only attach the electrical connections since the adapter is too large to fit into the cage with the hard drive, as expected. I then used the windows Computer Manager (right click My Computer to open then click disk mangement under storage) to initialize the drive and format it. After this, the computer recognized the drive when I opened My Computer. I used the Seagate Disk Wizard to clone my old IDE hard drive onto the new SATA II drive. This worked great. I then checked the Seagate drive and all my data, including the operating system (XP Service Pack 3), was on the Seagate. So far so good. I then turned off the computer and swapped hard drives. That is I removed the old IDE drive completely and replaced it with the Seagate SATA II and adapter. I then reassembled my computer, crossed my fingers and turned it on. To my suprise and delight, the computer came on and the operating system started up and ran flawlessly with the Seagate SATA II drive running Windows XP Sevice pack 3 and the computer recognized the drive as having 1.5 TB. After several hours, I shut down the computer and tried to restart it and this is where things went bad. The BIOS started then I got the error message “windowssystem32configsystem file missing or corrupt”. I could get no further than this error message no mater what I tried. I finally decided to start over, put the drives back into the original positions and reclone the old drive back onto the new drive. I swapped the drives after the procedure and again the computer worked perfectly with the cloned data on the Seagate that was now running in my old computer. Then I shut the computer off and tried to restart it and got the same error message “windowssystem32configsystem file missing or corrupt” again.
The fix. After many hours of research and trying to fix the problem it came down to one simple thing. The old computer of course had an old BIOS, which limited the hard drive capacity to 137GB so even though the old BIOS recognized the SATA II hard drive, it could not use it after a shut down. My old BIOS was version AO1 and after an up grade to version AO2, the computer recognized the new Seagate SATA II drive perfectly, even after many shut down/restart cycles.
Even though I had some problems with the installation (not the fault of either product), I give both products top ratings since they both work well together. The only draw backs are that the PATA to SATA adapter is somewhat bulky and the connection to the drive is not very tight although it is an adequate fit. I have had no problems with the Seagate Drive. It is fast, quiet and easy to install.
Hard Drive by Seagate
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Set up fast, installed, formatted and using now in a minimum amount of time. No problems encounted so far. Very pleased.
Seagate Double Agent
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
We purchased over 20 of these drives a few months ago. Of the 20
only 1 went “bad”. Good speed. Reliability is iffy at most with so
many bad reviews about it. We believe buyers will spend time writing
a bad review because they DID GET a bad product.
Which leads us to believe that Seagate, which has been a great company
for producing Hard Disks in the past, hired a double agent from Western
Digital a couple of years ago unknownly, and now WD is rising, and
Seagate falling…
Think about it Seagate.
Danxo (The Walter Judson Group)
How about end of life?
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
It is a royal PIB to destroy the data for end of life disposal!
I do NOT want my bank information etc. to be sold at a flea market in Nigeria!
There needs to be some FOOLPROOF way to destroy ALL of the data on the HDD AFTER a total failure!
It served my purpose for a while…
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
It crashed on me with numerous bad sectors after several years of service. Good thing I have back-ups for back-ups which back-up just in case thing like this happens.
Just what I needed
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
We needed a new hard drive and this one had a good price. We have used it for about 3 months now and it has worked fine.