Customer Reviews

Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1 TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s with NCQ 32MB Cache 3.5 Inch Internal Bare Drive ST31000524AS

5 star:		(42)
4 star:		(11)
3 star:		(5)
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1 star:		(12)

 

 

I bought this hard drive for about 42 dollars less than 4 months ago and the price is around 100 dollars now? I'm rather confused as to why this has happened. But all in all this hard drive has no failed me yet. Boot times are about 30 seconds from power on to windows aero fully loaded. I have no complaints about this drive, except the drastic price change. Before I saw the price I was thinking about buying another, but I guess that changed my mind.

Great value $47.00 for a 1TB SATA III hdd. Installed in minutes. Quiet operation. Only issue could be reliability and life of hdd and only time can tell.

windows became really unresponsive and then after a reboot, i got a message saying something like there was a bad boot sector. trying to 'repair' with the win7 disc did not work. this has happened now with both drive i bought. thankfully amazon is good and i got new ones and they are running good (so far)

no bad sectors reported with CHKDSK and the intel rapid storage utility says everything is ok. one more dead and i'm gonna get something else.

I'm not sure what the other people are talking about, I have two of these drives in my NAS and haven't had a problems. It's quiet and quick at a great price.

This the the crap Seagate drive that has been failing. Mine lasted 2 months and it was gone. Don't expect a lot of help from Seagate. They claim its just a firmware problem but that doesn't seem to be the case. There are plenty of other hard drives out there. - don't waste your money on Seagate. The are probably trying to dump them all and hoping for the best.Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 SATA 6Gb/s 1 TB Internal Hard Drive with 32MB Cache (ST31000524AS)

I built a new computer using two of these in a RAID(0) configuration. Everything was great for a week and then boom, a blue screen and errors when trying to boot. First time I've ever had a harddrive go that fast.

I give Amazon points for taking them back and giving me a very quick refund but I couldn't wait for a replacement so I headed off to Best Buy to get a couple of new WD Caviar Black drives that cost more but seem to working okay.

This drive worked excellent right out of the box. I have an IBM ThinkCentre and the 80Gb drive that came with it was filling up after 4+ years. It only had 10% free space left. I was able to clone it and now its much faster loading and all my programs run much smoother. I was going to get a 300-350 Gb but the price difference was a no-brainer. I have always liked Seagate and several friends also recommended Seagate. Amazon, You made me a happy user of your service. Thank You

Quiet drive and runs considerably cooler than the WD drive I replaced.

5.9 Windows 7 performance index on my computer.

The best thing about drive was the Seagate DiscWizard software you can download from the Seagate site. It transferred the system drive data in just 45 minutes. Great!

This HD died in less than 1 week. The problems started by the Hard Drive sticking and therefore the computer locked up.
The noise was so quiet that I had to put my up to the drive to hear that it was sticking. I gently tapped on the drive
and it started up. Soon the drive started to loudly buzz and would do nothing. Returned to Seagate after 1 week.

Before buying this drive, you should know that it is TRULY a "bare" drive. There are no connecting cables, manual, or anything else other than the physical drive itself. To install the drive you will need the SATA data cable, an appropriate power connection inside the box (or a Y splitter), and a good working knowledge of the drive initialization process for your operating system.

That being said, once installed and configured, the drive works flawlessly. It is quick, quiet and (so far) dependable. It is also a very good value for the price, especially with Amazon's prompt return policy if you happen to get the rare lemon.

If you have the cables and know what you're doing, I would definitely recommend this product. I have always had good experiences with Seagate drives, and this one strikes a nice balance between speed, capacity and price.