Seagate Barracuda ES 1 TB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s 32 MB Cache 3.5 Inch Internal Hard Drive ST31000340NS-Bare Drive

by Seagate

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 5.8 x 4 x 1 inches ; 3.5 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000UC3COY
• Item model number: ST31000340NS - FFP
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 28, 2007

Product Description

Capacity: 1 TB

The Seagate Barracuda ES drive is a family of high-capacity enterprise drives, providing 50 percent more storage space within the same system form factor than comparable drives. Barracuda ES drives leverage unparalleled Seagate enterprise technology to deliver the industry’s highest 7200-RPM reliability for 24x7 business-critical applications. The Barracuda ES drive maximizes system availability and performance in high drive-count storage systems, thanks to enterprise multi-drive firmware features and best-in-class rotational vibration (RV) tolerance. These enhancements are critical when implementing dense storage solutions, especially in external storage environments (NAS, SAN or RAID systems) where a multitude of drives is often deployed.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

21 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars ATTENTION AMAZON!, February 9, 2009

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Brian T. Brown (Tulsa, OK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Seagate Barracuda ES 1 TB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s 32 MB Cache 3.5 Inch Internal Hard Drive ST31000340NS-Bare Drive (Personal Computers)

According to Seagate, the drive you are selling is defective. The firmware site you reference is for RETAIL ONLY. Seagate is telling customers to contact YOU as the drives are OEM and not supported by Seagate. The firmware update FAILS as it is not applicable to OEM drives. Seagate's tools will tell you if your drive is affected and it DOES state these drives ARE AFFECTED.

If seagate continues this level of support there won't be a Seagate left soon. I know I won't ever buy another seagate drive again... OEM or not.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Just Arrived and Not on the Problem List, April 25, 2009

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D. Isaacson "electronics junkie" (Alameda, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Seagate Barracuda ES 1 TB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s 32 MB Cache 3.5 Inch Internal Hard Drive ST31000340NS-Bare Drive (Personal Computers)

Just got mine, and it's not on the Seagate problem list. No new firmware needed. I'm rating it 5 stars because I've had lots of luck with these drives (knock on wood) and I'm hoping this one follows suit. (For those wanting failure rates, out of 10 500mb drives, I've only had 1 fail (AS, not ES such as this drive) in less than a year, the rest are still going (ES).) Of course you never know, it's only hardware and prone to failure as often as the next, but so far so good.

Update: The first one is still going strong as of the end of May. Just bought a couple more to upgrade my NAS; the model number IS still on the list of potentially affected drives, but the serial numbers are NOT, meaning that the drives that are being sold are the newer ones without the firmware problem. Will update again in another month.

July 4 Update: Now running 4 of these, never a problem.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Drive was good second time around, April 10, 2009

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Christopher J. Titus - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Seagate Barracuda ES 1 TB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s 32 MB Cache 3.5 Inch Internal Hard Drive ST31000340NS-Bare Drive (Personal Computers)

Just a word of warning... Seagate pushed out a bad batch of these drives at the beginning of this year, and I had one that worked for 1 week and quit. I have since ordered a new one and it has been work for over a month and am very happy with its performance.

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