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2-Pack Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB 32MB Drive $200 at Dell
 
Discuss (37) : History : Tell : Posted 10:23 AM PDT 07/2/09 by Ben
2-Pack Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB 32MB DriveStill available. Dell has the 2-Pack Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST31500341AS 1.5TB SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive for $270 - $70 off coupon code 47DGX1L4SS?JS2 [Exp 7/8, 1000] = $200 with free shipping. Features a rotational speed of 7200RPM and 32MB Cache. Here's Seagate's site pimping this drive. [Compare]
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    #1   TheMax7 - Posted 10:28 am PDT 07/2/09 (579 Posts)
    Rocking 8 of these from the same deal awhile back. No DOA's and all are humming along great in my server. Great bang for the buck right now. FYI these came to me as 2 singles boxes in a larger box. Very good packaging.
    #2   dumbass - Posted 10:29 am PDT 07/2/09 (447 Posts)
    I heard these drives need a firmware upgrade or they will eat your children.
    #3   c3688t - Posted 10:32 am PDT 07/2/09 (67 Posts)
    These drives are really bad and have problems with overheating and leak lubricant if you don't upgrade the BIOS.
    #4   nuisance - Posted 10:37 am PDT 07/2/09 (10878 Posts)
    #2, way to ensure no one ever updates their firmware!
    #5   kal8 - Posted 10:40 am PDT 07/2/09 (1 Posts)
    I've been leaking lubricant for years--if only I knew I just needed to update my bios
    #6   Chunkyman - Posted 10:42 am PDT 07/2/09 (44 Posts)
    I bought one a while ago from Dell for about 80 bucks shipped. Still works and it wasn't one from the batch that needed firmware upgrading. Seagate has a tool to check via S/N
    #7   oscar5453 - Posted 10:50 am PDT 07/2/09 (731 Posts)
    My mom said I look cute.
    #8   rich00o - Posted 10:59 am PDT 07/2/09 (105 Posts)
    how do you upgrade the firmware on a harddrive??
    #9   sonichedgehog - Posted 11:09 am PDT 07/2/09 (39 Posts)
    awesome deal for your **** collection
    #10   doomed - Posted 11:46 am PDT 07/2/09 (680 Posts)
    upgrading the firmware for a drive is not hard.. Not sure why everyone makes it out to be a difficult task.
    #11   sguy2130 - Posted 12:15 pm PDT 07/2/09 (492 Posts)
    I put this in my hard drive bay and energized my pc. Unfortunately this drive caused a massive explosion which ultimately lead to my house burning down, and I didn't even get the benefit of it eating my children that I expected. I should have read the fine print.

    Maybe I should have updated the firmware and paid $80 for this like everyone else.
    #12   kiDDynamite - Posted 12:41 pm PDT 07/2/09 (26 Posts)
    where does one obtain said firmware upgrade?
    #13   achillesheel - Posted 12:52 pm PDT 07/2/09 (35 Posts)
    #14   nuisance - Posted 12:55 pm PDT 07/2/09 (10878 Posts)
    #15   juan213 - Posted 12:58 pm PDT 07/2/09 (97 Posts)
    2 drives waste port spaces
    #16   dumbass - Posted 1:41 pm PDT 07/2/09 (447 Posts)
    Yes, #15. It's much better to put in just 3TB drive instead of 2x1.5TB drives. Let me know how that works for ya.
    #17   revenant - Posted 1:43 pm PDT 07/2/09 (202 Posts)
    leak lubricant? lol

    I believe these might have been part of the batch with bad firmware.. there were various drives in 500gb, 1t, and 1.5t sizes affected, and in different ways... Seagate did some out with a good fw for them.. you need to load the fw onto a CD/DVD and then boot from that CD/DVD with only the hard drives you want to flash on your SATA controller... it should in theory find them and flash them then reboot your PC. there's more info here:

    http://forums.seagate.com/stx/board/message?board.id=ata_drives&thread.id=2879&view=by_date_ascending&page=21
    http://support.seagate.com/rightnow/Flash/gtla_locater/Seagate_sn_gtla.html
    #18   pastrychef - Posted 1:50 pm PDT 07/2/09 (258 Posts)
    I got 4 last week running in a RAID 5. So far, so good.
    #19   nuisance_el_gordo - Posted 2:22 pm PDT 07/2/09 (3996 Posts)
    Oink
    #20   cwtrex - Posted 3:19 pm PDT 07/2/09 (87 Posts)
    Got one of these drives and it's been working fine.
     
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