Seagate Barracuda ES 1 TB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s 32 MB Cache 3.5 Inch Internal Hard Drive ST31000340NS-Bare Drive

NOTE: Please research the issues about this drive before purchasing.Unfortunately, I had to return this drive. (Amazon graciously handled my return.) If you're in a Macintosh environment with no Mac Pro to put this drive into for firmware updating, Seagate has no solution. It may be the same for people with only Windows laptops.In order to update the drive's firmware (and this was one of the ones manufactured in the second half of 2008) that requires the update from SN05 to SN06, Seagate provides no solution other than putting the drive inside a machine.All of this information is accurate, as far as I know, as of this writing, February 7, 2009.In case you're wondering why I purchased this drive in the first place, it's because I have a RAID from Netgear, the ReadyNAS Pro that came with three of these drives. Two of them require the firmware update, yet Netgear has not offered any way to update the firmware in this RAID device either. They say that they can't do anything until Seagate offers them an update.It's a messy situation and I'd recommend staying away from this drive unless you can purchase one with the latest firmware - and mind that you keep your fingers crossed.As far as Netgear goes, given their lackluster approach to a resolution for this problem, I'd recommend caution before purchasing a ReadyNAS.Finally, though also importantly, I've never shut off my RAID device since I purchased it a few months ago and apparently it's on a reboot that the problems can arise. Hence, I must state that the ST3100340NS drives in it have performed as expected with no problems.

Just got mine, and it's not on the Seagate problem list. No new firmware needed. I'm rating it 5 stars because I've had lots of luck with these drives (knock on wood) and I'm hoping this one follows suit. (For those wanting failure rates, out of 10 500mb drives, I've only had 1 fail (AS, not ES such as this drive) in less than a year, the rest are still going (ES).) Of course you never know, it's only hardware and prone to failure as often as the next, but so far so good.Update: The first one is still going strong as of the end of May. Just bought a couple more to upgrade my NAS; the model number IS still on the list of potentially affected drives, but the serial numbers are NOT, meaning that the drives that are being sold are the newer ones without the firmware problem. Will update again in another month.July 4 Update: Now running 4 of these, never a problem.

I got these hard drives because my 2 TB drives were not working well with my external hard drive back up software. I figured out that the byte sector size was the problem with the Seagate Backup Plus. After long research and hundreds of customer reviews, I figured out the best way to backup presently was to stay with the 512 byte sector for now, until the "showboat" has stopped and the manufactures have ironed out all the issues surrounding the 4K compatibilities. The software says it can work with the 512 drives, but it really is NOT consistent. When I did my compatible backup, I got tons of error codes and files that could not be saved. So I went back to finding the 512K byte sector disks, and these were it. If you have the same problem, I highly recommend these, if you can find them by then. note: try to find ones made in Tawain, not China.

Replaced old hard disc drive that failed.

These drives I bought to go into a 4 disk raid array in a Synology cs-407. These drives arrived quickly and replacement went without a hitch. At the time of purchase they were $99 back in May 2012. Now they are down to $67 and are a bargain at that price. They are quiet, and did not have any of the firmware issues described in these reviews. It may have been an earlier batch, but I have not experienced any problems and they have been pretty much 24/7 operation.One thing I caution the buyer when buying these. ALWAYS check with the seller as to the mfg date on the drives as Seagate warrants them from the mfg date. Mine are warrantied till June of 2013. Since I need 4 drives, enterprise models have always been out of reach price wise. These seem to be a good value, but always do your research. An informed buyer is a happy one.

I've had mine for 3 years now, but the one that's advertised here is not the same item.It wasnt bare, nor did the item name state bare, so mine is different in that sense yet the link is the same. (Went through my order list to get here VIA item listing)Lasted up until something somewhere just borked and the HDD started failing/corrupting files. Lost 400G worth of important memories and work.I'd say it was worth the money, but I've never had something on a pc fail on me this badly before so I'm giving it 3 stars considering the substantial loss.

just the job computer working great

good product

excellent hard drive

worked just under a year - not designed for CCTV, probably ok to use as additional HDD on your PC

Ho comperato due ST31000340NS Barracuda ES.2 HardDisk, uno sono riscuoto a fare il reso perché ha dimostrato subito problemi, l'altro ha incominciato ora a segnalare difettosità dopo meno di 1500 ore di funzionamento.Allego esito SMART+Modello: ST31000340NS EITSeriale: 9QJ5GRSCFirmware: MS04Attributo SMARTSpin Up Time 0Start Stop Count 7Reallocated Sector Count 2Power On Hours 1492Spin Retry Count 0Power Cycle Count 7End-to-End Error 0Reported Uncorrect 4Command Timeout 2High Fly Writes 0Airflow Temperature Cel 38Temperature Celsius 38Current Pending Sector 0Offline Uncorrectable 0UDMA CRC Error Count 0ATA Error Count 16693Mi devo tenere il disco ho posso essere rimborsato?