Bad to think about buying a 500gig 7200.12 right now?

[Imitation]

Anyone think this is a bad idea or are those trouble free right now? Anyone have any idea? I'm contemplating buying some since they're 500gig on a single platter. I've seen some of the headlines lately about the all the 1.5tb drives and others in the 11 series having serious issues, that doesn't get me excited about a 7200.12 right now.

[mryerse]

I'd make sure to see a good comparison between them and the AALS/AAKS drives from WD. Compare seeks times, transfer rates, and noise.

[bruceyg]

The seagate 500gb 7200.12 is amazing. It runs much faster, cooler and quieter than my 320gb 7200.10 drive. HD tune pro shows 106Mb/s average transferate, even faster than WD 640gb black drives. Love this drive, barely hear it when is running.

[bruceyg]

I got similar results to what this guy got.
http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/3108/1314de4.jpg

[mryerse]

Mine (http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1384618) is striped (and on a different system) so it's no easy to compare, but I think that if you stripe and short stroke these 500's they will be pretty fast. Lower seek times on the WD6401AALS though for sure.

[Imitation]

I was actually thinking of going raid 5 with 3 of these guys and an areca 1210. I know they're pretty dang fast, but I'm a little leery of them after all the headaches seagate owners have had the last month or so. Its either these or 3 WD black 640's.

[Martel-fs]

Honestly I feel like its gambling with your data at this point. Sure, maybe they fixed all of the issues they have been plagued with lately.

Maybe.

[drgnfang]

All three of mine arrived DOA, so I can't recommend them - but other people seem to be getting good drives.

http://www.hardfolding.com/fhtag.php/mem/649494/11/3.png (http://www.hardfolding.com/fh_stats/?pz=102&tnum=33&id=649494)

[bruceyg]

Don't jump on a conclusion in a hurry, you might need to use PQ magic or HD tune to check your drives first. Windows did n't recognize my drive before I used pq magic to creat the partitions. Some one pointed out that it might be due to the old bios. The new board should be fine. I am not sure whether is the bios or not, I suggest you to try HD tune first to test your drives.


All three of mine arrived DOA, so I can't recommend them - but other people seem to be getting good drives.

http://www.hardfolding.com/fhtag.php/mem/649494/11/3.png (http://www.hardfolding.com/fh_stats/?pz=102&tnum=33&id=649494)

[GLSauron]

bought one.
gonna short stroke it for \\vilya, and move the AAKS back to the server for another 750GB of space on it.

[drgnfang]

Of the three I got, 1 caused machine to fail @ POST, the second would never get past 1% on format and when I tried to add it to a RAID0 (ICH9r) it would always show up as FAILED.

http://www.hardfolding.com/fhtag.php/mem/649494/11/3.png (http://www.hardfolding.com/fh_stats/?pz=102&tnum=33&id=649494)

[Imitation]

Man, I really wish seagate was f'ing things up right now, I don't think I want to have the possibility of getting hosed by bad drives, and at the same time if i'm buying new drives I want the fastest available right now. Not to say the WD black drives are slow, they'll work out pretty well in RAID 5 i htink, definitely be faster than my single 500gig AAKS I'm running at the moment.