Ok, this must be the lowest price 1.5TB drive I have seen yet....
Black Friday sale available now: Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST31500341AS 1.5TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive (bare drive) for $119.99 LINK
Shipping is included. Works out to $0.08 per GB...so try your luck on this problem ridden drive....maybe you'll get lucky and get a non-defective/non-frozen drive.
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This is also the one plagued with the firmware problems. Stay away esp. if you're going to use it as your boot drive. For data this will be OK if you don't mind it timing out every now and then.
They're supposedly working on firmware updates but tbh if they haven't find the problem by now and came up with a fix, they're not trying hard enough.
5678 said:This is also the one plagued with the firmware problems. Stay away esp. if you're going to use it as your boot drive. For data this will be OK if you don't mind it timing out every now and then.
They're supposedly working on firmware updates but tbh if they haven't find the problem by now and came up with a fix, they're not trying hard enough.
cnIsfg said:5678 said:This is also the one plagued with the firmware problems. Stay away esp. if you're going to use it as your boot drive. For data this will be OK if you don't mind it timing out every now and then.
They're supposedly working on firmware updates but tbh if they haven't find the problem by now and came up with a fix, they're not trying hard enough.
1lossir said:cnIsfg said:5678 said:This is also the one plagued with the firmware problems. Stay away esp. if you're going to use it as your boot drive. For data this will be OK if you don't mind it timing out every now and then.
They're supposedly working on firmware updates but tbh if they haven't find the problem by now and came up with a fix, they're not trying hard enough.
1lossir said:cnIsfg said:5678 said:This is also the one plagued with the firmware problems. Stay away esp. if you're going to use it as your boot drive. For data this will be OK if you don't mind it timing out every now and then.
They're supposedly working on firmware updates but tbh if they haven't find the problem by now and came up with a fix, they're not trying hard enough.
Actually the firmware was released to ARs on Monday. I listened to the web conference announcing the release and Seagate's lead engineer statement that these NEVER exhibited any of the reported problems in PC environment. After two months of extensive testing on over 500 drives they could not replicate ANY of the reported freeze-ups in a PC environment even with when the customer’s return actual drives reported to have those problems in a PC environment were tested. The problem and firmware update applies ONLY to Linux and Mac multi-drive installs. IOW all the hysteria was just that: hysteria. Naïve posters posting FUD like the one above who never even owned one of these let alone experienced the problem first hand.
rigor said:at the torrent site that is related to demon robots the firmware patch was posted a day or two ago.. FYI you do realize installing the new firmware on a drive being used in a PC environment will actually cause a performance decrease? That is why Seagate is requiring you contact them for the firmware vs posting it one their public download site. You might want to read the official Seagate firmware thread here before arbitrarily installing it on your Seagate.
cnIsfg said:1lossir said:cnIsfg said:5678 said:This is also the one plagued with the firmware problems. Stay away esp. if you're going to use it as your boot drive. For data this will be OK if you don't mind it timing out every now and then.
They're supposedly working on firmware updates but tbh if they haven't find the problem by now and came up with a fix, they're not trying hard enough.
Actually the firmware was released to ARs on Monday. I listened to the web conference announcing the release and Seagate's lead engineer statement that these NEVER exhibited any of the reported problems in PC environment. After two months of extensive testing on over 500 drives they could not replicate ANY of the reported freeze-ups in a PC environment even with when the customer’s return actual drives reported to have those problems in a PC environment were tested. The problem and firmware update applies ONLY to Linux and Mac multi-drive installs. IOW all the hysteria was just that: hysteria. Naïve posters posting FUD like the one above who never even owned one of these let alone experienced the problem first hand.
well, i find it hard to believe that this was all hysteria.
i don't find it hard to believe that the lead engineer/seagate may not admit to any problems. that's what companies/corporations do.
i'm still staying away from this drive even at this price. 5-year warranty everybody goes on about. i personally will take a 3-year warranty if it means i don't have to go through the headache of losing data (huge amounts at these sizes) and RMA'ing a brand new drive right out the gate.
Engineer said:This can be picked up at TigerDirect for around $104 after 15% CashBack from Live.
Almost clicked submit on the TigerDirect order then I saw tax in TX, which killed the deal or atleast no better than the deal from OP w/Newegg. Ah well.
For 119.00 I'm in for one. It has a 5 year warranty and I've dealt with warranty issues before and had no problems concerning hard drives...if there is a problem then I do the download, if the download doesn't fix it I get a refurbed drive most likely or possibly a new drive. Seagate has tons of these out there and I'm sure if there is an issue that it will be resolved. Good find OP and repped!
I just ordered one from TD also. My $18.00 CB is already showing up as pending. This is cheaper than the 25% CB from eBay I just did 3 days ago. I now have (2) 1.5tb drives for my EX470 homeserver... 2 more to go.
I ordered 2 for my Ex470 also. Can't wait to start consolidating data on to EX470 from various external and internal drives I have. I have read few reviews and will take my chance on these in the Windows/PC environment.
Rob50lx said:I just ordered one from TD also. My $18.00 CB is already showing up as pending. This is cheaper than the 25% CB from eBay I just did 3 days ago. I now have (2) 1.5tb drives for my EX470 homeserver... 2 more to go.I'm only seeing 5% from TD, what am I doing wrong?
Dell Home has the Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1TB 7200RPM/32MB 3.5" Internal SATA Hard Drive for a low $88.99 after $40 off Coupon Code: 9BPJP5C2PHKMMC (Exp 11/28). $6.99 Shipping. Tax in most places.
ToHellWithUGA said:Rob50lx said:I just ordered one from TD also. My $18.00 CB is already showing up as pending. This is cheaper than the 25% CB from eBay I just did 3 days ago. I now have (2) 1.5tb drives for my EX470 homeserver... 2 more to go.I'm only seeing 5% from TD, what am I doing wrong?
please elaborate more. I am also in the boat for getting 2 of 1.5TB for EX470 server.
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