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I needed a larger capacity replacement drive for an aging computer, and this Seagate drive fit the bill perfectly. At under $0.07/GB, the value was amazing. The drive is fairly quiet and fast enough. First, the capacity. Most of the 2TB+ drives I found were SATA 3.0, and my motherboard was only 2.0. While this wasn't a big deal, I couldn't justify the extra price for higher performance I wasn't going to see on my system. So, among SATA 2 drives, this was one of the biggest. 5/5 on that. Second, the price. If you search around, you can find these drives at just over 6 cents per gigabyte at the time of this writing. That's a great price range, better than the smaller drives and most of the larger ones. 5/5 on that. Now, performance. The drive is faster than the one I replaced, upping my Windows Experience score from 5.2 to 5.9 and feeling faster in response when copying large files and extracting archives. Still, it's nothing close to an SSD, and even pales compared to SATA 3 drives, or the Raptors. It also takes an extra second or two to be recognized by my BIOS, slowing down the boot time. 3/5 on performance. Drive noise is an issue for some people like me. This drive is pretty quite generally, but it did make a bit of noise when the swap file was used heavily. I didn't notice any vibration at all. 4/5 on that. So, overall, this is a good drive if you're short on cash and need an upgrade. If you've got the extra money, I would suggest going up to the newer 3.0 drives.Read full review
We use a lot of hard drives in our Desktop RAID system, such as Seagate 7200.12 1TB, 7200.11 1.5TB, Caviar Green 1TB, 2TB. Among all these hard drives, Seagate 7200.11 have the highest performance in terms of disk access/transfer or read-write speed that no other can even compete. Based on our test, all green series will be much slower compared to Seagate 1.5tb. And most importantly, its price is almost the most reasonable if you calculate on a $/GB basis. For example, we tested that copying a very large folder 3800 files/7GB from a standalone Seagate 1.5Tb disk to a 3-disk RAID 5 configuration in our Desktop RAID system only takes around 1 minute, but for all green series it will take 3~5 minutes to finish the job. We found Caviar green is almost the slowest hard drives among all our selection since it stop running when idle. The downside is it's very hot when running non-stop, especially when you put several Seagate 1.5TB together. If you have no cooling system in place, system will begain losing disk one-by-one, which means it's no stable enough without cooling system in place, so our Desktop system has special AI cooling system installed to guarantee their working non-stop. The normal working temperature for Seagate 1.5TB is 0~60 degree in centigrade and if your hard drives has worked more than 5 hours, it may reach much higher than 60 degree. So, our suggestion is if you have only one disk installed, it may be ok without cooling measures, but if several hard drives in one case, you have to install cooling system, otherwise your system would be dead for sure. Green series like Seagate 7200.12 or Caviar Green has much lower working temperature, so it can work non-stop stably although disk access rate is slower. In a word, if you want performance, you have no choice but Seagate 1.5TB, but you need to install cooing system to gurantee it can work non-stop stably. But if you have no such mission-critical needs and wish a very quiet desktop, we would suggest you go green, although a little bit slow in reading and writing.Read full review
Traditionally a very reliable disk, this model holds up well under heavy use. It doesn't run too hot when in a fan-vented case. I would not recommend this disk for fanless enclosures. Great for backing up data since write performance is very poor under certain circumstances. Read performance is very good. BEWARE: This disk does not have rotational vibration correction. When used in systems/enclosures that produce significant vibration the write speed of the disk may be seriously impacted. In some instances performance has been reduced to 5MB/s and slower. DO NOT USE THIS DISK FOR any high performance applications that perform high write I/O (IE: Database, video editing/design, etc).
Your mileage may vary, but over the past 25+ years, I have found Seagate drives to be much more reliable than Western Digitals, and Maxtors aren't even in the race. To compute available disk space, you must know the math behind it. In decimal, 1 terabyte would be 1,000,000,000,000. In binary, it would be 2^40, or 1,099,511,627,776. A 1.5TB drive has 1,500,000,000,000 bytes (plus a few more). Divide that by 2^40, and you will get about 1.36TB, which is the capacity expressed in binary. To convert between decimal and binary for a drive measured in gigabytes, use 2^30; for megabytes, use 2^20; for kilobytes, use 2^10 (which is 1024, commonly called 1 kilobyte, or 1000 decimal). In that last case, the difference is only 24 per kilobyte, but by the time you get up into terabytes, the difference is over 99.5 billion, and people start to wonder where it all went! The label on your Seagate drive claims 1500Gbytes. That is in decimal. In binary, that converts to about 1.36TB. So, you have not been cheated out of any capacity; it's simply a matter of the method of notation. To see the exact numbers for your drive, open Windows Explorer (My Computer), right-click on your drive, click Properties. You will see its capacity in decimal and in binary. To crank through those numbers using my values above, you can use the Windows calculator. In XP, click Start Run. In Win7, just click Start. Enter CALC. Click View Scientific to access the x-to-the-y key (2 keys left of the 4 key). Tap 2 (for binary), then x-to-the-y, then 40 (for tera); press Enter. The rest is simple arithmetic, and should reveal the mysteries to you. If any of that is unclear, just ask most any teenager with glasses to help. [:-)Read full review
WARNING: DRIVE MAY DISAPPEAR ON SYSTEM POWEROFF There is a KNOWN issue with the 7200.11 series Seagate drive in where the drive will disappear from your system if the computer is powered off. This problem can be patched, but you must know about it! You MUST upgrade this model hard drive to the latest firmware or this could happen to you. The good news is that Seagate will fix it for you free of charge (including shipping), and in my case, I did not lose the data. Seagate was able to recover it for me once they upgraded the firmware. The bad news is that it took me 6 months to learn about this problem, and I assumed I simply lost everything so I had purchased a new drive. Please check the Seagate website for the specifics and ensure that if you're purchasing this drive that the firmware is up to date!Read full review
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