(Old Model) Seagate 3TB Desktop HDD SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Bare Drive (ST3000DM001)

For those of you who are not aware of it, this drive has some kind of firmware problem that makes the drive chirp from time to time. Whatever the problem it, Seagate fixed it with a firmware update recently. In order to update the firmware, you need to set your hard drive mode in BIOS to IDE (not AHCI), then download the bootable iso version (I don't trust microsoft to get in between me and my firmware updates). Boot from the cd the iso created, select "d" for download new firmware. Wait 20 seconds or so. When it says it's done, turn off your computer. At bootup, enter BIOS and switch back to AHCI. You are done. I haven't had any chirping or any other problems with this drive. It's 3 platters only, with 1TB each. This means is consumes less power than its brethren with more platters, and the performance is good. I have it hooked to a 6.0 GbPS SATA port. Runs great, quiet, etc. In the past I've always bought Western Digital drives but in the wake of the flood, WD appears to be keeping its prices way high for a long time. even on their wimpy green drives. I mean, it was like 10 months ago or something, people! Good reason to switch to Seagate. Seagate, on the other hand, has lowered prices to something in the same ballpark as pre-flood levels--though they haven't progressed past where they were at the time. Anyway, I have a 1 TB version of this drive in my main computer (the firmware update said it didn't need updating) and a 3 TB version (which I updated myself) in my home fileserver. What I want to know is when is Seagate going to use these great 1TB platters in a 4 and 5 platter configuration. I already have a 4TB seagate drives (barricuda XT) that I pulled out of an external enclosure (for some reason they never sold the 4 TB version as a bare drive). It has 5 platters. Why not make 4 or 5 platter Barricudas using the 1Tb platters? It has to be trivial. I could use the space on my fileserver. By the way at the time I bought this you could get the same drive in an external enclosure for $10 less. I was very tempted to buy that and then rip it out of the enclosure, as I did my Barricuda XT, but I decided $10 was enough to pay for a valid warranty and the option of returning it if it didn't work right away. Didn't end up needing that, but better safe than sorry. I will check back in and mark it down if the drive goes down or misbehaves any time soon. If you don't see that, it's still working like a champ.

I bought two of these 3TB drives from Amazon, about four months apart. I use them as the data drives in my system. I was extremely wary when shopping for replacements for my Samsung 1TB drives, so many bad reviews for both Western Digital and Seagate. However, I've not experienced any issues with either drive thus far. As I've mentioned in my other drive reviews, I will update this review if any problems with these drives occur. After seeing so many negative reviews when shopping for drives, I decided I should write reviews for all of my drives so that both the good and the bad drives get represented. PERFORMANCE ------ Stellar performance, definitely an upgrade over my pair of 1TB Samsung drives these replaced. Using Crystal Disk Mark, I see sequential reads and writes of about 180 MB/second. In real world transfers, I typically see 100 MB/second. A significant portion of my data is compromised of photos, RAW image files from my Nikon D800 which are huge, around 40 MB per image. On my old drives, Lightroom would take a lot longer to generate previews of the RAW files. Every time I made an edit, Lightroom read the RAW file from disk and regenerated the preview. The faster transfer speed on this drive was a significant improvement, previews are generated much faster which makes Lightroom feel like it is running a lot faster. NOISE ----- These drives aren't the quietest. They have a lot of torque and exhibit a whirring noise when spinning. The seek noise can be pretty annoying without proper isolation. With the hard drive trays in my case, it was very difficult to tame the vibrations. I ended up suspending the drives using elastic cord. I can still hear the seek noise, but just slightly. The drive is pretty quiet when suspended. WARRANTY ----- Sadly there is only a 2 year warranty at the time of this writing (7/2/2013). Seagate changes this without notice. I suppose the positive spin is we at least have a two year warranty instead of the one year warranty many drives had after the tragic floods in Thailand significantly crippled the HDD supply chain in 2011. Pro Tip: If you have the Amazon Visa card, use that to buy this. It extends the manufacturer warranty by one year for free. Other cards may do this too, but you'll have to ask about this benefit. OVERALL ----- So far my experience with these drives has been nothing but great. Outstanding performance and a good value, I can happily recommend the Seagate 7200.14 3TB drive.

UPDATE: I bought some that were "Sold by Oceanside Store and Fulfilled by Amazon" and the Seagate web site said they were OEM drives that did not have an end-user warranty!! SCAM! NOTE: THESE REVIEWS ARE ALL MIXED TOGETHER FOR VARIOUS GENERATIONS OF WHAT ARE VERY DIFFERENT DRIVES! AMAZON< PLEASE STOP MIXING 3TB reviews with 4TB reviews, they are entirely different models with very different failure rates. UPDATE: These 4TB Seagate drives are pretty nice for backups and video storage, etc. I use my drives with a drivepool software package that does a few different things: 1) Pools several drives into 1 logical drive, so that filing is much easier in one volume, rather than 8 separate volumes, for example. This allows me to keep 1 "HD VIDEOS" folder, not 8 HD VIDEOS folders on 8 separate volumes, and allows me to search it as 1 folder. 2) Allows very precise backup organization, so family photos, tax records, can be backed up, and other stuff I don't care about, is not duplicated. It automates all duplication of ONLY the folders I want duplicated. Some very important files, I keep 3 copies. And most important, the new 4TB drives are known to be VASTLY MORE RELIABLE than the previous generation 3TB drives. ALSO, it comes with a 2 year warrenty rather than the previous 1 year warrenty on the 3TB drives. This is a policy change for Seagate and is testiment that these newer drives are much better than 2 year old drives, made in new China factories, immediately after the floods in Thailand. OLD REVIEW FOR 3TB DRIVE: Very disappointed; have had good and bad experiences with both Seagate and WD, and decided the 3TB 7200 was too tempting to pass up. I got 2 from one retailer, and 1 from another, to try to divide the batch I was ordering from, since I had heard from friends of bad experiences purchasing drives together in the same batch (they both went bad at same time, etc). Of 3 I have purchased, in 13 months, I have lost the first, with no opportunity to recover it. It is simply not recognized by the machine, and actually hangs windows if I attempt to use it. It shows up on desktop as a drive with a letter assignment but no space associated, and if I try to work with it in the Storage:Disk Managment, it hangs windows. I did have a short notice of a problem when I used CrystalDiskInfo to look at the status of my drives. I actually purchased this drive intending to test it for a FULL YEAR before trusting it, but the ULTIMATE PUT OFF was finding out from Seagate after 1 year it is considered out of warranty??? Drives should become more reliable over time, not less! Drives are getting cheaper per GB but at what cost to consumers? Who wants to lose 3TB of data all at once? Thank god I only wrote backup data to this drive and then let it spin for a year. BUT, I have a sister drive that is also reporting same/similar issues in CrystalDiskInfo so I will be backing that drive up immediately! It's got real data on it! Don't trust these drives with more than your torrents and porno collection, that is for damn sure. WD RED, here I come! (I've read they come with 3 YR warranty, does anyone know if that is true?) http://smile.amazon.com/WD-Red-NAS-Hard-Drive/dp/B008JJLW4M/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1392264098&sr=8-2&keywords=western+digital+red

To the point : Buy these drives! Excellent for home Raids/NAS/Server/Other. Price per value unbeatable at the moment. It is cheap! Sale price I have seen personally on Amazon ($89/$99/$109) elsewhere I have seen it for $119. All of these are great price per value if you catch the sale. Detail review: These drives to not have TLER (built-in time-error recovery). TLER is usually available on enterprise drives which are far more expensive than these model/similar type drives. That said, there is no reason why you should not consider this drive model or any non-enterprise type for any home built system/NAS/Server/Raid setup. I have two custom-built servers; A Raid-5 NAS (Five 2TB Green WD drives) and a backup server where I used twelve of these 3TB seagate drives for my backup server in Raid-6. Regardless of what other reviews will say, the only reason you should consider enterprise drive is if you really have a business or corporation to have this extra layer of redundancy in place or if you have the money for these type of drives. But if you are trying to save a buck and are on the ledge of if I should buy an enterprise drive or not? ... go for the non-enterprise-drives. For home usage, non-enterprise drives will work just as well with the same performance. Don't read into the hype you need raid specific drives. Unless you are a DBA managing tons of data you do not need it. Yes, drives do fail but no less than an enterprise drive. I got twelve of these drives from Amazon for the price of $99.00/$109.00. The drives went down to $89.00 during the lightening sale but I missed out on that. The price/value is worth it... so shop around when there is a sale. At the time, Amazon limited one drive sale per account. I called in some favors from a few friends to order the drive for me as a gift. If needed, I can return the item in the case of DOA. This is the best way to take advantage of the one item per account bind limitation sale. All drives of all brands has the potential to fail or DOA regardless of where they are made. Anyone says different have no idea what they are talking about. These are sensitive hardware with precision moving parts... you would be surprised how items are bounced around during shipments. You really can't blame all DOA's on shipping but its something to take into consideration. There is also user fault for failed drives as well as many other viable reasons. Of the 40+ drives I have ordered across 2 decades from multiple brands I never had one failed. Does this means or verify anything? No! but maybe people should not get too worked up about failed drives. RMA the drives for a free replacement in most cases. You must not have done something correctly if you cannot RMA for a replacement drive. Annoyed that you have to RMA a drive because it was DOA or failed? ....Knowing the nature of drives or any equipment for that matter there is the potential it can be DOA ...and if the thought never came up that the item could be DOA/defective? you are delusional and should not pretend you know what you are talking about. These drives and my other branded drives are working 24/7 without breaking a sweat. The random reads and write speeds are 112MB/sec for Raid 6. This is without any sort of tweaking... just a straight raid-6 setup without any SSD cache. For the raid 5 setup I am using software raid. For the 12-drive array I am using an Adaptec 16-port raid controller. Some tweaking it will be easy to bump up the random reads and writes. For those that complain they are seeing less space on drives when installed: All drives will have less usable space than advertised. For example, without going into too much detail a 3TB once installed will grant you just over 2.7 TB of usable space. Also be sure your Mobo can support/see larger drives over 2TB.

well the first one i got was dead im in the process of retuning it for another one now hopefully it will work as i need it badly i think segate should at least test these to see if they spin up of of a least see if they will format before sticking them on the selves for there costumers this would eliminate the high failure rate of these drive and restore faith in there name oh and ps mine came from china if that's a heads up for any one they are going to have to do better than this or people or going to loose faith in there name as a company i understand your going to get bad ones here and there but that's just not the case wit these drives it like playing roulette maybe you will get winner maybe you wont not acceptable for device's known for reliability people store there life on these thing they expect it to last awhile i mean if you constantly backing up to disk whats the point of having a hard drive in the first play just go out and buy a blu ray burner this is not acceptable segregate do better!!!!!!!!!!!! hopefully the new 3 tb i got coming will make me feel better about all of this but only tine will tell with all the bad reviews this drive keeps getting i don't know will edit to let you know how log the other one works if it works at all peace out.Well the new one they sent has been working fine for mouths now with heavy use with out a problem so for as longevity we will just have to wait and see and its pretty snappy for a 7200 rpm drive to sp as of now have no complaints and would recommend if you get a good one and the drive isnt noisy at all like some have said maybe the noisy one are the ones that are going to go bad just my 2 cents worth but like i said im a happy camber nor 3tb for this price cant go wrong i will up if the drive dies any time soon

IO Crest 2 Port SATA III PCI-Express x1 Card (SY-PEX40039) I use Linux Mint. Currently running Linux Mint 14 Nardia. I was surprised and pleased to achieve almost the full 100% of the 3T 1 partition using GParted formating in NTSF. If I boot up in windows xp, Windows doesn't see the drive at all even though it is NTSF format. But I understand the I can run a special software on the drive to get windows to recognize it. But I needed this drive to Move two 1T hard drives and one 750T hard drive as a Logical drive only on my Linux Mint install. Works perfectly. Linux sees the entire 3T as 1 partition drive NTSF with without having to run any special hard drive on this 3T drive as one partition. At first, I was able to format this 3TB drive as ext3 or ext4 in GParted, but after formatting in either of those two formats I could not write to the drive even though it said successful. I think it was just me in missing one of the selection steps before I told it to run the format. Just didn't have the time to research it. So for now, I settled for the NTSF formatting also using GParted and Was able to read and right successfully to the drive in Linux which is what I need. For some reason doing a NTSF format on a 1T hard drive one partition or more Windows xp could read and right to it, but doing the same NTSF on this 3T hard drive windows needs the special software from the hard drive manufacture to see, read and wright to it. With the NTSF using linux, I will just have to do a defrag once in a great while which is not a problem. Perfection and great performance is running Linux Mint 14. I have this new 3T drive and 3 1T drives now running on this system perfectly. Oh, I should mention: to get the full 6 gigabyte out of this drive I added for this drive "IO Crest 2 Port SATA III PCI-Express x1 Card (SY-PEX40039) from Amazon" works perfectly.

I have ordered many hard drives from Amazon over the years with very good results. I ordered one of these drives and once it arrived put it through my normal test routine and then eventually put the drive into use. I was so impressed with it I ordered another one within a week. Hence the 5 stars. The second drive was a dud, the first dud I have ever received from Amazon, or indeed any online purchase. I opened the box, put it in my drive dock and went to format the drive - and it was immediately wonky. The initialization using Apple's Disk Utility stopped half way through and then froze for a long time. Not a good sign. Eventually it DID complete the process, so I switched over to BlackMagic Disc Speed Test. (The week before I had run the test on about 15 drives and catalogued the results). I used a 5 GB stress test. These are supposed to cycle between writing and reading tests every 8 seconds. Right away the performance was unusual - the write portion of the test would hang for long periods of time but would eventually complete, move to the read test and do the same. I tried copying some data and the performance was quite unusual - It was clear that something was wrong with the drive. I decided to return the drive, so I went back to re-initialize the disk using Apple's Disk Utility - again it froze half way through. And then Disk Utility CRASHED, not once but twice!! Second time my computer rebooted itself. I contacted Amazon and asked for a replacement. I will update this post after I test that one. --------- The replacement drive arrived, was initialized, tested,,partitioned and about 2 TB transferred to it successfully. Have even run some very dense multi-track audio sessions from the drive. It's been less than a week, but the drive is performing well so far.

I got two of the Seagate Barracuda 3TB drives (model ST3000DM001) a few weeks ago as Amazon had it on sale for $176. When I connected them to my system, I noticed they would make loud clicking sounds, almost like someone typing on a keyboard. Since they were not initialized and formatted yet, I wanted to use them and see how they preform. I transferred/cloned all my data and OSes from my four older Western Digital drives to the two Seagate 3TB drives. Over the two days that I used them, this clicking sound got louder and more frequent and was from both of the 3TB drives. Then on the 2nd day my motherboard (ASRock Fatality Z68) would not recognize them in the BIOS at all. I moved the drives to different SATA ports, but the motherboard still would not see them. The only work-around was to reconnect my older 1TB Western Digital RE3 drive back up, use it as the boot, and then the system would see the Seagate. I thought this was weird as they had been recognized fine for two days, then wouldn't. Between this and the clicking noise, I felt the drives were not made well (made in China on the label) or damaged (but was double boxed from Amazon). Transfer rates were good at 160-180MB/s. I ended up returning both and buying two Western Digital Black 2TB drives, that was slightly more money and 1TB less in space. I've been using the WD Black drives for several days now and they are much more reliable. No issues with the MB stop seeing them, and no clicking noise...but I can hear a low rumble when there are reads/wright, and a high-pitch oscillating sound (but my older WD did the same thing). I was able to dampen this by placing a cotton hand towel on both sides of the drives. Transfer rates on the WD Black 2TB are around 120-130MB/s, so not as fast as the Seagate, but better built and has a 5 year warranty, as Seagate is only 2 years from the date of manufacturing. Overall, I would not recommend these Seagate Barracuda drives (with the 1TB platters), maybe the older Barracuda XT model is better. I've never had a WD drive fail, so I'm going to stick with those. *** UPDATE 1/20/2012 *** After I sent this horrible defective Seagate 3TB drive back to Amazon, I ordered the Western Digital Black 2TB from Amazon and Hitachi Deskstar 2TB 7K3000 from NewEgg. Both are much better quality. The WD Black is the loudest, but also the slowest of the group with 110-130 MB/s read speeds. The Hitachi is near silent, and gets read speeds of 130-150 MB/s. My only concern is the Hitachi has 3 year warranty and the WD is 5 year. But I've been using the Hitachi for 2 weeks and have run several drive check programs that scan the platters for errors and defects, and so far the drive has been running fine.

WDの1TBが音楽ライブラリーでいっぱいになったため購入いたしました。購入してもうすぐ1ヶ月ですがSMART上は問題なく動作しています。回転数がWDより早いのに静かでアクセススピードも比べものにならないくらい早いです。大量のライブラリーをお持ちのヘビーユーザーにおすすめです。

Io lo uso in coppia al Synology DS 431, ormai è qualche mese che ne faccio uso intensivo!!!! Perfetti e senza alcun problema!!!!

exelente producto lo unico malo que para que te peuda reconocer los 3TB tienes que modificarle unas cosa en la bios antes de instalar el OS ya que sin o le cambias esas cosas nadams te reconoce 2TB, pero quitando ese detalle es de muy buena calidad y funcional al 100.

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One of them has been in my computer and powered on for over 6100 hours, to date. The other disk serves as a backup and is constantly being manipulated between an USB3 casing and wherever I store it until the next time I need it. The SMART data is all good on both drives and they shouldn't give up anytime soon. They run cool, they're silent, they're fast. I've got no complaint whatsoever. Keep in mind that the "issue" that makes the drive appears smaller is common to all larger drives on Windows - and it can be fixed in about a minute following simple steps. It is not specific to this product or vendor and probably shouldn't influence your decision to buy. Seagate and Western Digital have been dominating the hard drive market for like a decade now. This Seagate Barracuda is just another WYSIWYG quality product.