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Posted at 10:23 AM on Thursday 07/2/09 by
Ben
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Still 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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    lightbulb42 - Posted 4:22 pm PDT 07/2/09 (459 Posts)  Report Spam

    Seagate needs to have their hands slapped for turning out crap.
    I'm not having anything to do with their 7200.11 drives even if they've fixed the problems.

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    sk8erboy - Posted 5:02 pm PDT 07/2/09 (306 Posts)  Report Spam

    #21 - You need to have your hands slapped for spewing that crap.

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    RKLE - Posted 5:50 pm PDT 07/2/09 (8910 Posts)  Report Spam

    these drives are top of the line.

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    Furpit - Posted 6:06 pm PDT 07/2/09 (55 Posts)  Report Spam

    #11 these drives burned down my house and spread to my neighbors house...burnt to crisp. The fire kept going till it lit up the whole neighborhood. Unbelievable...just love these drives.

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    Chrisman - Posted 6:25 pm PDT 07/2/09 (3166 Posts)  Report Spam

    #7, was that the filter talking?

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    pigonthewing - Posted 6:30 pm PDT 07/2/09 (616 Posts)  Report Spam

    a guy at work bought one of these hard drives. ten years later, BAM herpes.

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    A142536 - Posted 7:23 pm PDT 07/2/09 (220 Posts)  Report Spam

    Not bad deal - not the best drives...

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    dave_c - Posted 7:52 pm PDT 07/2/09 (16750 Posts)  Report Spam

    Oh boy, a HAND SLAP. Can we send them to the corner and put a dunce cap on 'em too?

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    NotBen - Posted 8:11 pm PDT 07/2/09 (811 Posts)  Report Spam

    Can I SLAM this in my notebook for a "precious bounty"?

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    mgchan - Posted 10:32 pm PDT 07/2/09 (161 Posts)  Report Spam

    Got 2 of these drives a couple weeks ago and haven't had any problems. I'm running Linux and haven't had any issues with freezing or anything.

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    BargainHunter777 - Posted 11:12 pm PDT 07/2/09 (101 Posts)  Report Spam

    How many people can vouch that the so called problem as experienced around Nov/Dec 2008 is resolved with the firmware CC1H?. I read thru so many reviews on here, amazon.com and newegg.com, that people, on one hand, swear that the problem is solved and while, on the other hand, people insist that nothing has changed.

    I would like to find out whether the issue has been really solved?

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    omega55 - Posted 8:45 am PDT 07/3/09 (183 Posts)  Report Spam

    Both of my Seagates leaked lubricant. I couldn't believe it. Oil all over the bottom of the case. I'm going to try to revive them with KY jelly.. There's nothing worse than a dry drive.

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    crv_rave - Posted 2:53 pm PDT 07/3/09 (485 Posts)  Report Spam

    i got the 500GB version of the .11 series and it's been running nice and quiet and fast for 4 months... it had the latest firmware DE13.

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    crv_rave - Posted 2:55 pm PDT 07/3/09 (485 Posts)  Report Spam

    #31, check Seagates' website... they have a tool to figure out if your drive/firmware is good or not and can be updated.

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    monkieinabarrel - Posted 8:35 pm PDT 07/3/09 (1016 Posts)  Report Spam

    i prefer caviar black

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    Kyser_Soze - Posted 9:22 pm PDT 07/3/09 (731 Posts)  Report Spam

    #29, with the right hammer anything is possible.

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    dave_c - Posted 5:44 pm PDT 07/4/09 (16750 Posts)  Report Spam

    BargainHunter777 wrote:
    How many people can vouch that the so called problem as experienced around Nov/Dec 2008 is resolved with the firmware CC1H?. I read thru so many reviews on here, <a>amazon.com and <a>newegg.com, that people, on one hand, swear that the problem is solved and while, on the other hand, people insist that nothing has changed.

    I would like to find out whether the issue has been really solved?


    It's really solved.

    However, for large capacity drives you are better off getting the current generation from Seagate or Samsung (F2), etc, so you get 500GB platters instead of slightly over 350GB, as the larger number of platters don't bode well for noise, power, lifespan.

    Current sweet spot is probably 3 x Seagate LP 1TB in a RAID5 array = 2TB of redundant storage for about $255 delivered at regular price, less if they go on sale. Their lower RPM increases latency a bit but still good for bulk storage and about 100MB/s throughput thanks to the higher density 500GB platters.

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