Comments on: Seagate Barracuda 1 TB SATA 3.5 Inch 7200 RPM Version 12 Desktop Internal Hard Drive ST31000528AS

By: Craig Hendricks

Craig Hendricks — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:41:32 +0000

I own my own Tech company and have worked in major DataCenters throughout the world. Not a single Mainframe, reputable server, or enterprise desktop, uses any other HDD other than Seagate. Period. Seagate invented the Floppy disk. Invented first HDD to fit in the FDD 3.5" form, first to introduce 5400rpm, 7200rpm, 10K, 15K, and so on. I have never had a Seagate HDD crash on me, EVER. One customer though had one that had died, it was a 10GB HDD from 1990. Also WD suck. They always crash. Also Seagate are the only drives that have Shock Protection.

The people who rate this product negatively are obviously ID10T's. If you buy a 1TB HDD the r/w time is going to lag, read the specs on the manufacturers website. Please do not complain about something you should have investigated beforehand.

Bigger Drive = slower speed.

I have one of these HDD's and I only use it as a Secondary Backup Drive.

You want speed go with SCSI.

By: Spas G. Velev

Spas G. Velev — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:29:41 +0000

Is this HDD the best on the market? To me, yes.
Not only is the "the Seagate® Barracuda® 7200.12 drive--the 12th generation" company's drive.

The drives with capacity multiple of 500 GB are build with 500 GB/platter.
There are only three companies producing 500 GB/platter att:
Western Digital, Seagate, and Samsung.

Seagate's drive, as long as remember, comes with a 5 years warranty.

By: Black Davy Cash

Black Davy Cash — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:39:04 +0000

Please be aware that this drive also requires you to separately purchase a data cable and rail screws to secure the drive to the PC frame; all you get is the drive. If you order, it’s luck of the draw, hope yours works.

By: Raymond Morris

Raymond Morris — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:00:29 +0000

This drive is slow. I ended up using it as storage only. [...]

for a good read. Seagate is not the company they used to be. This is a good ‘green’ drive for storage, but not for use as a primary drive IMO.

By: James Kayten

James Kayten — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 11:14:21 +0000

Seagate used to be the benchmark. Don’t know what happened, but I won’t be back anytime soon if ever.