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Seagate 1TB Barracuda 7200.11 Bulk/OEM Hard Drive ST31000340AS

Brand: Seagate
Category: CE

List Price: ~~$567.00~~
Buy New: $109.99
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Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

39 reviews
Sales Rank: 68

Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Hard Drive Size: 1000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0
Dimensions (in): 5.8 x 4 x 1
Warranty: 5 years warranty

MPN: ST31000340AS
Model: ST31000340AS
UPC: 854441001764
EAN: 0854441001764
ASIN: B000UC3CN0

Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours

Features:

•	1 TB SATA NCQ internal hard drive is ideal for performance PCs, gaming, workstations, desktop RAID, and more
•	32 MB cache buffer; 7200 RPM for fast read/write times
•	Perpendicular recording for increased data density
•	Adaptive Fly Height offers consistent read/write performance from the beginning to the end of your computing workload
•	5-year limited warranty

Accessories:

•	Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition FULL VERSION with SP2
•	Nero Liquid TV
•	Norton Internet Security 2009
•	Adobe Photoshop Elements 7
•	Quicken Deluxe 2009

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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
Seagate 1TB Speed:7200 rpm Seek time: 11 ms avg Interface:SATA 3Gb/s NCQ

Customer Reviews: Read 34 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars

Watch out for the Disk Wizard software included! June 10, 2008
J. Hurley (Sunnyvale, CA)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful

I installed this drive as a replacement for my 200GB Barracuda main drive.

I used the Disc Wizard to clone the old drive. The cloning appeared to work fine, but later I found that my backup program crashed with a blue-screen-of-death - STOP: 0x00000019 (0x00000020, 0xe5acb398, 0xe5acb3b8, 0x0c040207).

Later research showed the fix was easy [...].

Since the fix I am very happy with the drive. It is about twice as fast as my previous drive and I have to run it with 1/2 speed jumper.

5 out of 5 stars

I wouldn't buy anything else November 23, 2008
Adam Dachis (Boston, MA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful

Seagate has always been my go-to brand for drives. A smarter friend of mine recommended them and I've been mostly successful buying only Seagate. I do have a few Western Digital drives (I always buy their externals because I'm a sucker for their design, but I've owned a few internals as well) and the Seagate drives have ultimately been more reliable.

I only have three of these drives, which seems like a lot when I write it here but it isn't. I mean, you have to use more than just one of the drives to get a feel for the quality because it's not uncommon to get a dud. I have yet to get a bad Seagate drive, but I've certainly seen some unhappy first-time customers who ended up with a dud and paid the $20 for Seagate's immediate replacement plan. They always seem to think it's a rip off.

Well, if I got a DOA drive I wouldn't want to pay $20 more just to have a quick replacement, but if you have a drive that dies later in its life--any time within their 5 year warranty--Seagate will replace it free of charge. If you want to pay the extra $20 to have an immediate replacement then it's a very nice option to have. If you're not backing up your computer and/or do not have any redundancy in your setup, that $20 option can make your life a lot easier if your drive dies. In my case, I used these in a Drobo so if one dies I'm okay and can wait until the replacement comes. I generally keep an extra drive around the house for when one of the drives inevitably fails.

You're going to, at some point, have a drive that dies. I've been very lucky in that I've only had one hard drive die on me in my entire life (aside from a DOA Maxtor drive I got in a Lacie external Porsche drive many years ago). That one drive was a Seagate 500GB drive. It died after two years of life and was one of the seventeen 500GB drives I bought from Seagate. It was in a RAID 5 array and I just swapped it out with another--no harm done. The others are still fully functional and in, at least, their third year. While I trusted my friend, I wasn't fully sold on the Seagate brand until having such reliability proven to me through use.

So far the three 1TB Seagate drives I'm using have performed very well. They're fast, they're so far reliable, and I've had no issues whatsoever with them. They work great in the Drobo (the newer model with FW800) and are safely archiving my data so the only thing I have to worry about is a natural disaster (or the unlikely occurrence that I lose two drives at the exact same time).

It's a hard drive so there's only so much I can say about it. I trust Seagate to continue manufacturing quality products. My experience has been very good with them and many of their drives. These 1TB drives are doing their job very well. Seagate's had a chance to refine their 1TB model and with prices as low as they are, I think it's a good time to adopt the 1TB drive over the 500GB drive. Overall, highly recommended.

5 out of 5 stars

No cons August 22, 2008
Eduardo C. Salgado (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

great product, great shipping, great price, noiseless, etc...
if you want a reliable hard drive, go for segate barracuda.
great for raid solutions too!

5 out of 5 stars

OEM but installs easily November 22, 2008
David Milks
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

Arrived in a box in another box held by typical drive black plastic end holders. OEM so no cable/screws or software. Downloaded Max Blaster 5 from Seagate site to clone original drive. Takes 3 hr to format thru windows XP drive management and 1 and a half hour to copy 200 G from old drive with Max Blaster. Had to change BIOS to see both drives to clone. Moved new drive to boot position. Completely disconnected old drive before first reboot on new drive.

5 out of 5 stars

My first terabyte drive October 16, 2008
Larry Liang
3 out of 4 found this review helpful

I have always been a fan of Seagate products since they've never let me down, and this drive is no exception. I run this drive in an external hard drive enclosure and it has been absolutely perfect. It runs moderately warm, but that is to be expected. My only gripe is that when I leave the enclosure standing up, you can hear the spindle quite clearly. The noise goes away when you leave the enclosure on its side. Like others have said, beware that this is an OEM drive, meaning that when you buy it from Amazon, you only get the drive, no software or cables. You also need to format it on your own (not a problem for me because I always reformat any new hard drive I buy anyway.)