Bought two of these bad boys for RAID0 a year ago. I still have yet to have a problem with these drives at all. They're absolutely solid performers. They're not too loud, they're extremely fast (I'm almost always the first to load into a game), and they're 1TB obviously.
Only problem now is the prices, but that's hopefully going to come down sometime soon. I wouldn't buy them until they drop back down to around $80 each or cheaper. But once that happens, I'd happily buy more of these.
This drive is in my LAn rig and works like a charm. Plenty quick, tons of storage, and reliable. I am going to pick up a few more of these to go in my desktop soon and raid them.
Seems to be the best drive on the market for the price at the moment that I have found.
I no longer own it since I gave it to my friend, no issues for him there. His brother also purchases one too. At the time of writing this, the price has gone up due to the 2011 Thailand flood, but in the future when people are reading this it won't matter.
I purchased the product in early 2010 I'd say.
Pros
Cons
Very stable, quiet, good price (when I bought it at least).
None, except maybe it's not some raptor but who cares at this price.
Can't say much other than these drives are rock solid. I swear by these things. Own 3 at the moment. NEVER had a problem with them. Highly recommended.
They're now officially Seagate Barracudas.. just so you know.
I bought two recently after good success with my first one, but the drives have different labels on them now and are supposedly made in a different factory.
Still benchmarked around the same for me though, and had identical looking casings and PCBs. One was 140MB/s while the first one and the other in this shipment were 150+
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