Seagate Barracuda LP 2 TB 5900RPM SATA 3 GB/s 32 MB Cache 3 5 Inch Internal Hard Drive ST32000542AS Bare Drive is the best
Band : Seagate
Model : ST32000542AS
Product Features :
- 5 900 RPM Spin Speed 32 MB Cache Buffer SATA 3Gb/s interface 2 TB Capacity
- Super low power consumption reduces power costs over the life of the system up to 50 over those of standard desktop drives
- Leading performance in the low power category
- Cool drives provide long lasting benefits to the PC or external drive reducing some component and maintenance costs
>> Click of death after 3 days
Bought two of the same drive 2TB version at different times one died after 3 days Continuous clicking when powered up and couldn t be recognized Thank goodness for Amazon s efficient replacement policy
>> You Get What You Pay For
I bought this drive knowing that it would be considerably slower than any SATA drive I have owned I was right
Because of the lonnnng hang time I feel like I have stepped back into 1996 with the slowest of slow 8GB IDE drive
Here are my specs Intel E8400/3 00GHZ 8GB RAM 1GB Radeon 4760 PCI EX 3 1TB hard drives of various flavors
from Western Digital Samsung will never buy another again went through 3 in the span of a month and a Hitachi Desk something or other will buy again fast and haven t had any problems whatsoever I bought the drive because I wanted to store VHD s Hyper V and I knew that with the 5900 ceiling I was going to hit a wall of data and have consistently done so I tried moving 267GB s of data over and it said that it was going to take 1 hour no biggy because I was going to go to sleep When I woke in the morning 4 hours of sleep it said that I had 3 hours to go As far as running an OS on the thing I tried on a lark I like pain and my PC ran slow as well heck
I was tempted to return the thing but the s spent and I m guessing that someday I will like the thing Prolly not If you aren t used to 7200RPM SATA drives I would say go for it Me I m set for a while
>> Reliable cool but a bit noisy
I have had two of these drives operating continuously in a ReadyNAS storage device for the past three months and have just added a third I have not experienced any of the failures or other problems that anybody here has described All three disks both the initial two and the third one that arrived more recently were well packaged in appropriate shock insulating supports as well as in the manufacturer s anti static foil bags As expected no instructions or other hardware were included which was not a problem given the intended use
These drives are not quite as quick as faster enterprise level drives I ve used but quite adequate for my needs especially when used in an environment where network performance is probably the bottleneck rather than drive performance Noise was a bit greater than I might have expected and temperatures were quite good Compared to smaller Pipeline HD drives they replaced these are faster cooler but significantly noisier and I would not recommend them for a DVR or any other application where quiet operation is important On a lark I did try using one in a Netgear media player but got inconsistent results apparently due to the fact that the startup time was too long
On the whole I think the Barracuda LPs are an adequate lower power alternative to enterprise drives in settings where maximum performance and minimum noise are not important criteria Most likely will add a fourth to this array in the near future
