windows became really unresponsive and then after a reboot, i got a message saying something like there was a bad boot sector. trying to 'repair' with the win7 disc did not work. this has happened now with both drive i bought. thankfully amazon is good and i got new ones and they are running good (so far)

no bad sectors reported with CHKDSK and the intel rapid storage utility says everything is ok. one more dead and i'm gonna get something else.

I own over 50 hard drives and 99.9% of them are Seagate. I own several of this model and as my drives need to be replaced I use a SATA Revision 3 drive if my drive controller can use that protocol. I like the additional speed that you can get using the 6 Gb/s rate of the newer SATA interface. I have not had one problem with these drives and the writing speed is phenomenal when compared to SATA II.

This drive spins the disk at 7200 RPM and a 32 MB memory cache that provides high data speed transfer and fast burst performance for exchanging data. Just remember that to utilize the SATA Revision 3 specs, your drive controller must be SATA Revision 3 compatible. This drive is also downward compatible with SATA II interfaces but will only operate at 3 Gb/s on a SATA II controller.

It is a bare drive which means that it does not come with any CD disk providing software tools or any SATA or power cables.

I do not like that the price has gone up dramatically and but that does not detract from the fact that the drives have performed flawlessly. A massive flood in Thailand shut down 1000s of factories including major hard drive manufacturing companies. Seagate was not affected but the price of hard drives has gone up dramatically and all suppliers are making extra profits due to this disaster. I am just being patient and not making any large purchases while the prices are so high.

I bought this HDD to replace a failed 4 year old drive in my NAS RAID array. As expected, it dropped right in and the NAS formatted and synced it with the other drives. No issues. I expect to replace them again in about 2-3 years since no disk drives dependably last in continuous service much longer than that. Seagate Barracudas have always performed very well in my systems, both laptops and desktops. Excellent equipment.

I was a Seagate fan since the 80's when I forst start using microcomputers, I always loved their drives.
This year's experience changed all that.

I own a Dell XPS Desktop (i7 975 @ 3.33 GHz, 12 GB RAM, and ATI Radeon HD 5800) which I paid top dollars for. The computer was configured in RAID 1 - mirror drives, so that I can use it without worrying about total disability in case of drive failures.

One of the drive went bad over the summer, so I bought a pair of Western Digital 1 TB Black and replaced the bad one. The RAID 1 did its job by allowing my system continue to function before I change the bad one, however, after I replaced the bad drive, the system did not return to RAID 1, the system became a RAID 0 configuration. Last week, the system crashed and could not be rebooted (MBR Corrupted). But i kept two copies of disc images after the system became RAID 0, so I restore from the image, did not work, still have the same problem. I then reformatted the drive and restore again, same problem. Each restore took over 24 hours, and I was not a happy camper.

At this point, the issue was clear, the Seagate drive was bad. I replaced the remaining Seagate with the spare Western Digital, went through the same process, the system finally return to working form. Really, the Seagate drives were no more than 3 years. They both crapt out and caused me hours of work to retore the system. Is it my bad luck, or shame on Seagate by selling such a drive?