Seagate 2TB $89.99 (FreeShip) @ NewEgg

shansoft said:
its... seagate...
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That's exactly why you should buy it, I have had to RMA all 3 of my 1TB caviar blacks since I bought them in april. I have also sent one replacement drive they sent me back already. I have 750GB 7200.11 I bought almost three years ago that works flawlessly to this day.
 
Does anyone own these Seagate drives that could chime in. I am interested as well, but heard conflicting reports. I know each company has its season of good and bad products, but specifically these drives, anyone have any experience with them?
 
I own the 1.5TB version, and while it worked fine for the first month or so it was on, the first time I turned it off, it never came back on. (It was off for a few moments to move the computer three feet...)

Due to other issues with the 7200.11 and 7200.10 series, I'm avoiding Seagate for the foreseeable future.

I haven't even attempted to use my replacement drive. That's how bad I'm avoiding Seagate.
 
I have had all WD's for quite sometime. And I avoided seagate's for quite some time as well..

But I just got a 3 TB seagate and so far so good..I would avoid the 1 TB, 1.5 TB, and the 2 TB seagate drives.

But I have been pleasantly surprised with this 3 TB drive./
 
This seems to come up with every Seagate deal posting, this is not new news guys.......... :(

Yeah 1.5TB are trouble, I've tried both a Retail internal 1.5TB (CC1H fw) and external 1.5TB and had troubles. The internal one had long pauses during file transfers and the external one had the click of death.

OTOH, I have 4 early Seagate 500GB drives in a 24/7 server over 4 years that are trouble free.

Don't know about the new Seagates, but it will take a long time for me to trust Seagate again.

I've only had one other catastrophic hard drive failure over my 25 years of computing, and that was the IBM Deathstar 75GB, even the RMA I got back failed.
 
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Tolyngee said:
I own the 1.5TB version, and while it worked fine for the first month or so it was on, the first time I turned it off, it never came back on. (It was off for a few moments to move the computer three feet...)

Due to other issues with the 7200.11 and 7200.10 series, I'm avoiding Seagate for the foreseeable future.

I haven't even attempted to use my replacement drive. That's how bad I'm avoiding Seagate.
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I have at least 10 of the 1.5TB seagate drives (a mix of 341AS and 541AS in NASes or WHS systems). I've had two bad drives which I've RMA'ed and some occasional increases in negative SMART indicators, but the drives appear to be working just fine about 18 months after purchase.

Newegg reviews are not great for these Seagate 2TB drives (3 stars), but as always, people are more likely to complain than they are to praise. Anecdotal evidence suggests that the Samsung and Hitachi drives are the most reliable for 2TB drives. Both are available for approximately the same prices from ewiz and fry's, respectively.

Here's the ewiz deal thread for Samsung:

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1553523
 
pc1x1 said:
Does anyone own these Seagate drives that could chime in. I am interested as well, but heard conflicting reports. I know each company has its season of good and bad products, but specifically these drives, anyone have any experience with them?
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In my media server I currently have 3 of the 2tb Seagate LP drives, 2 2TB WD EARS Green drives and an even mix of 6 WD / Seagate 1.5 TB drives and 3 WD 750GB drives.

In the last 12 months I've had 2 HDD failures. Both were Western Digital (a 750GB and a 2TB LP). I've yet to have an issue with any of my 6 Seagate drives. In my book Seagate and Western Digital are equally preferred with the edge going to whoever is priced the best.
 
I have 18 of these drives. 10 of them I run in my big raid server. Then 4 each in 2 backup raid boxes. I've found unusually high initial failures that are easily caught by running Seatools on the drives when you get them. Maybe 10 or 15 percent. Once confirmed good by Seatools longtest I have not had any failures. Given Newegg's easy RMA it's not a big deal for me. Others may differ in that opinion.
 
pc1x1 said:
Does anyone own these Seagate drives that could chime in. I am interested as well, but heard conflicting reports. I know each company has its season of good and bad products, but specifically these drives, anyone have any experience with them?
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I'm running 8 of them in my fileserver without issues. I've had six for about a year and recently added two more about two months ago. I, too, see all the mixed reports, and I'm glad I've had a positive experience thus far.
 
Just had a 1.5 fail after running in my desktop for 2 years with no issues. Yesterday it was running fine and the next time it tried to spin up: click of death. 1.5TB of data lost. Luckily, its replaceable, but its not going to be fun. And here I told myself I'd give Seagate the benefit of the doubt and not give in to the failure / click of death hype....
 
I bought two of the 2 TB LP Seagate's in retail boxes from Fry's and have had no issues. They take a second to spin up when asked for data, but that's OK because they save me money when I am not using them (Like 99% of the time! LOL) I have some data on them, but since they are not Raided, nothing terribly important.
 
Same thread, different day

Seagate Sucks
WD Sucks
Samsung Sucks

We get it, they all suck.

Now that that's out of the way.....
 
AMD T-type said:
Same thread, different day

Seagate Sucks
WD Sucks
Samsung Sucks

We get it, they all suck.

Now that that's out of the way.....
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If it ain't Rodime it ain't shit cripplefagot! PrairieTech pwns y0u!

:D Way too hard to do that with a straight face.
 
brasherman said:
They take a second to spin up when asked for data, but that's OK because they save me money when I am not using them
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Any drive will save you money on electricity if you have it set for them to shut off when not in use?
 
Tolyngee said:
Any drive will save you money on electricity if you have it set for them to shut off when not in use?
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Yes, but what I really was trying to point out is that they take longer than my 7200 RPM units to come out of sleep, but I wouldn't want them spinning anyway. Other people prefer to run them 24/7/365.
 
Tolyngee said:
Half of my recent Seagate's have been broken right out of the box.

Pretty bad if WD can break that...
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I have had DOAs from Hitachi, Samsung, Seagate, and Western Digital. If you have bought enough drives over the years you notice model# matters more than brand. Even then some models have a bad batch. Use companies that offer a good warranty and hope for the best. ;)
 
Different deal now, but ends up being the same price and free shipping.

$99.99 - 10% off (up to $10) with promo code EMCZYNZ73 = $89.99, free ship
 
Model does matter more than brand. Right now, Hitachi is top for reliability. Followed by everyone else. Too lazy for backup links, not anecdotal though. My 7200.11 died on me a few months ago. Using a loud and slow WD.
 
DaedalusHelios said:
I have had DOAs from Hitachi, Samsung, Seagate, and Western Digital. If you have bought enough drives over the years you notice model# matters more than brand. Even then some models have a bad batch. Use companies that offer a good warranty and hope for the best. ;)
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Never had more than half bad right out of the box from anyone else, though. And I currently own probably almost 100 HDs total from all four manufs you listed. Some date back to 2001.

But I suspect some of it is packaging and handling, but when you're buying from multiple retailers with multiple drives in the box, and half are good, half are bad from the same boxes, packaging/handling can probably be ruled out.

Although I have had Seagate refuse RMA on a bad drive out of the box before, because although it failed SMART, it would not fail the Seagate drive scan. Still unusable on most RAID cards due to SMART failure. I had to just test it for a few days to get it to fail completely. Stupid.

Also, Seagate's now well known for refusing to RMA drives as the users were using Linux, as Seagate doesn't support Linux. Haven't heard of any other manufs trying that baloney yet.

So, if you're looking for a company with good warranty service, Seagate's out the window before you can open the window.

Maxtor (bought by Seagate) takes the cake though: dropped warranty altogether on a specific model when the RMAs got too extreme. (I was RMAing 2-3 drives a month...) Even when they were RMAing, they replaced with a different model that was marginally smaller, so was now useless for my RAIDs.


But I own a 1.5TB 5900rpm Seagate, and while it worked perfect the first three months, first time I turned it off... it never turned back on. While it's an extremely small sample, the Samsungs haven't done that to me yet, and they've been $85 recently. And Samsung's never given me any hassle about an RMA, if it comes to that.


housecat said:
Model does matter more than brand. Right now, Hitachi is top for reliability. Followed by everyone else. Too lazy for backup links, not anecdotal though. My 7200.11 died on me a few months ago. Using a loud and slow WD.
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The irony of that is that I own a 100GB IBM Deathstar bought maybe eight years ago, and still works today. So, it really is just luck sometimes.
 
Tolyngee said:
Never had more than half bad right out of the box from anyone else, though. And I currently own probably almost 100 HDs total from all four manufs you listed. Some date back to 2001.

But I suspect some of it is packaging and handling, but when you're buying from multiple retailers with multiple drives in the box, and half are good, half are bad from the same boxes, packaging/handling can probably be ruled out.

Although I have had Seagate refuse RMA on a bad drive out of the box before, because although it failed SMART, it would not fail the Seagate drive scan. Still unusable on most RAID cards due to SMART failure. I had to just test it for a few days to get it to fail completely. Stupid.

Also, Seagate's now well known for refusing to RMA drives as the users were using Linux, as Seagate doesn't support Linux. Haven't heard of any other manufs trying that baloney yet.

So, if you're looking for a company with good warranty service, Seagate's out the window before you can open the window.

Maxtor (bought by Seagate) takes the cake though: dropped warranty altogether on a specific model when the RMAs got too extreme. (I was RMAing 2-3 drives a month...) Even when they were RMAing, they replaced with a different model that was marginally smaller, so was now useless for my RAIDs.


But I own a 1.5TB 5900rpm Seagate, and while it worked perfect the first three months, first time I turned it off... it never turned back on. While it's an extremely small sample, the Samsungs haven't done that to me yet, and they've been $85 recently. And Samsung's never given me any hassle about an RMA, if it comes to that.




The irony of that is that I own a 100GB IBM Deathstar bought maybe eight years ago, and still works today. So, it really is just luck sometimes.
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I had a Cheetah and 1TB ES.2 DOA directly from Seagate and Seagate refused it because they said no way it would fail. Had to put pressure on them for like 4 months before they even accepted to recieve it to test, but I got them RMA'd "eventually". :rolleyes:

Oddly enough, my 10GB Quantum Fireball still works. What I'd use it for is beyond me. I got random text files on it right now.
 
Over the seagates that I got as of late they can suck it.

For WD I have, 4 640gb, 1TB blue, 1TB black, 500gb enterprice, 150gb velociraptor. none of which failed yet.
For Seagates I have 5 1.5tb, 3 of them already had to be RMAed in the first year, 2 250gb ES2, one failed after a year, 4 500gb 7200.10 one also failed after 2 years, 500gb 7200.4 and 750gb 7200.10 no issues with these

Not saying that WD's dont fail for me, they do but when they die its seems to be around 5+ years old. Hell I still got a 8gb WD along with a 20gb Quantum Fireball and 12gb Quantum Bigfoot xt that still works.

One thing is for sure, I won't buy any WD green garbage.
 
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