Seagate Barracuda SATA III 3TB (ST3000DM001) - Reviews
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13.8.2012
First off,I have found this drive to be quiet, relatively fast and good value at £112.00.Plus you get a good warranty,I would therefore recommend this drive if you are confident about it's suitability. If you're not sure see if the below helps.I thought I'd just write a quick post that may help someone who isn't sure(as I wasn't) if they can use this drive in their machine to full capacity.The following information was gleaned through my own research and a bit of trial and error also. I'm not a I.T expert so forgive me if everything here isn't technically spot on:).Anyway, here are my finding based on my newly built PC and win 7 pro.1)If this drive is fommatted as MBR(master boot record),
31.7.2012
I have so far bought four of these, two of which I am using in a RAID configuration and the others were bought on behalf of someone else, and I presume also for RAID.I installed a pair (bought on my recommendation) in a RAID enclosure for someone only this week and discovered that the chosen enclosure had insufficient cooling and the heat built-up was such that it part-melted some of its internal plastics. In another enclosure, they are running quite cool but it has a fan which the first did not. If to be used for RAID, I would strongly suggest only using a fan-cooled enclosure.They are fast, thanks to the motor speed, and allow about a 30% boost in transfer rate. They will be slightly faster on reads than on writes,
10.5.2012
What's there to say really? Personal choice of course, but I don't care what anyone says or what I read about Western Digital - I have purchased 8 x Seagate SATA II HDD's (some from Amazon) and all of them are perfect and without issue.I read an awful lot about computers having trouble with any HDD size over the limit of 2.2TB's and I have to say I was a little dubious about purchasing my first 3TB drive. *Also note, Seagate are the VERY FIRST manufacturer to develop a 3TB drive that has 1TB each over 3 platters!* Where's WD now eh?Anyway, yes I read up about my specific MoBo (Motherboard) and checked if it was capable of formatting/initializing the drive as 'GPT' instead of 'MBR'.
8.8.2012
So far I have brought 6 discs at 3TB each. 4 of them are for my NAS drive, a QNAP TS-412 and they just fitted in and worked, it really was that easy. I've had these for about a month now with no problems at all.Apart from the 4 drives for my NAS drive, I bought one extra to act as a spare in case I ever get a failure on my QNAP system.The 6th drive I put into an enclosure with USB 3.0 support to make an external disc drive. I have tested this to look for the read speed from the disc to my Windows 7 and I get an average read speed of 132 MBytes per second over a 5 minute period. This is very impressive indeed. You do need USB 3.0 support though,
25.5.2012
Obviously I did not buy this for blinding speed, but rather for storage capacity. This is why when I give it five stars for performance I obviously mean it in that context.3TB at the time of purchase gave me the most GB per pound compared to 2TB or lower capacity drives. in fact this 3TB drive was cheaper than some other drives which were of lower capacity.I have a well ventilated Housing (a CoolerMaster HAF X) so the drive, because it spins at 7200 RPM, getting a bit hotter than drives spinning at 5200 is not a consideration.I am very happy with it, and the couple of pennies I might have saved on electricity per year with a slower spinning drive is just not important to me.In fact if people
25.1.2013
First of all, the drive is great. It's a standard issue Seagate - in that the quality is good, and it's got a big capacity for the price too.I haven't noticed any heat or noise issues - although I am running several HDDs at once within a Drobo, so this could be masked. It is nice and quick.Some people may face issues re it's size being 3tb, but I understand that Seagate themselves now provide solution software for this where they can split down the drive into smaller chunks for 32bit systems (lots of XP owners, for example). I have a Mac, and initially tried slipping it straight into my Drobo - which failed initially but only because the Drobo firmware needed updating to accommodate 3tb drives.
12.6.2012
Drive is fine once partitioned. I wanted to use this in a Windows 2003 server without too much reconfiguration. There appears to be a way to adding the drive as 3TB, but because of the way my server is configured it looked like I would need to reinstall the operating system. I tried Seagate's partitioning software, but this did not work on Windows 2003. I tried putting the disk in external USB SATA drive housing, but beyond 2.2TB this housing did not work. Eventually I plugged the drive internally within a Windows Vista PC and was able to use Seagate's software to partition the drive. I then plug it the partitioned disk into the Windows 2003 server and it worked fine.
29.10.2015
Not the best HDD but definitely the best value/price around. Have noticed the Seagate disks are having a lot of returns for DOA or early problems like me previous one I got here from another seller, lasted 6 weeks and just died. have this one for a couple of weeks now and so far so good.If this one fails in the next year I'll definitely change this rating but so far, you can't beet this (if it doesn't fail).Cons:Not the fastest,Not the most silent one,Not the most reliable ones (lately)Pros:By far the cheapest ones for large capacity HDD (do not save crucial data on these)Acceptable speed and noiseYou get what you paid for.
17.11.2012
A reasonably priced large drive I have three of these in an Icydock caddy they seem to perform well using windows 7 64 bitif you are thinking of using it with Win XP then you will need to partition it as xp only see's just over 2Tb (seagate disc wizard will do this)Also if you are planning to use it as a C drive you will need vista or win7 64 bit (the 32 bit versions are not compatible)I have been using them for a few months now with no problems,they are not the fastest of drives but suit my needs for data/Photo storage a case of get what you pay for.I would happily recommend them for storage backup drives
5.7.2012
Recently built a new PC and delayed buying a hard drive due to the high prices. Finally found this drive on Amazon at £120 for 3TB, which is roughly the same price as last I bought a drive a couple years ago (£40 for 1TB).Delivery was quick (Prime) and had absolutely no problems plugging the drive in. It was immediately noticed by Ubuntu. Formatting it was a breeze, and I have had no problems with it what so ever.Ubuntu reports the drive as having 2.8TB rather than 3.0TB.The drive is very quiet and cannot complain about access speeds.
31.3.2013
only problem i have with it is me !! i installed it and then formatted it but for some reason it only gave me 1.9 t of the disc the rest was listed in disc management as 746.52 gb unallocated and for some reason unknown to me i can not allocate/format this partition, when i right click it it does not allow me to click on new simple volume! i will continue to try and find out if there is another way to do this. but the product itself is fantastic no complaints.
20.8.2013
hard drive easy enough to install, the most basic thing to remember is that all hard drives over 2.2tb have to be formatted using GPT and not MBR which is the default,otherwise if you use MBR then you are left with a partition you can do nothing with & wasted space.The drive was a bit noisy to start with, but after the first day seems to be very quiet, so everything okay so far but will update if there are any problems in the future
26.4.2013
I'm not sure how you review something like this. I bought four of them to fit in to a Synology 412+ Network Raid enclosure. They arived extremely well packaged and have had no problems with them (constant use 24/7 for the last several weeks). They are relatively quiet and speed seems good for my needs (Photo, Video, Audio, and Source code repository) which probably doesn't stretch the capabilities as much as some other use cases.
12.7.2012
As my 500Gb Hard Drive was showing signs of packing up I decided to buy a Hard Drive with a bit more space. This one has the speed & space. I chose to stick close to the Seagate series of Hard Drives since my last one lasted 5years. This one has not let me down so far & I would recommend it for those who wish to have the space at a cheap price. Seagate has truly set the benchmark for Bigger is Better.
29.11.2016
I bought this for an external NAS RAID drive box, it's working perfectly so I rarely think about it. Speed is everything you'd expect, as usual with network drives the big bottleneck tends to be the network link and mirroring, not the drive itself. Both are so fast I can't say I've noticed appreciable lag.There are faster drives out there, I think, but this one does the job well, I recommend it.