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I've been using computers for more than 20 years. I've had more failures with Seagates than others. Nevertheless, I bid on and won this one for a low price (used) because Seagates are not THAT much worse than others in the size/quality/price range. I will use it as a secondary storage unit (and back it up frequently.) I've had good and bad experiences with 2.5" and 3.5" drives from multiple manufacturers — name brand and "white label" no-name brands. For my money, with very few exceptions, they are all about the same. SOME manufacturers' processes and/or certain model numbers have known issues, so do your homework before buying any drive, especially used ones. Seagate had a known issue with the firmware (causing the drive to "brick" .. become a useless hunk of magnetic parts) on certain Barracuda 7200 models, but they got past it with their newer drives. If you want "the best", go with a Western Digital Caviar BLACK (they have Blue, Green, etc.) The Black is pretty much accepted as "the best" line (and more expensive) of HDDs on the market by many experts. I'm not an expert. I bought a 1TB WD Caviar Black to set up a RAID1 with the existing 1TB in my new DELL XPS 8700 because I thought it would probably be worth the cost. With ANY hard disc drive, the three most important words are: BACKUP, BACKUP, BACKUP! (And do it regularly and frequently.)Read full review
I have not had ANY problems with this drive yet. I purchased it to replace a dead drive that I had been able to successfully recover/image and blasted that image back onto the new Seagate. Without incident, the new drive took to the OS and I was fully back in business. I purchased this drive mainly for the size to low-price ratio. Sure, I could've bought a larger drive for $5 - $10 more, but this one fit the bill, also, with larger size hard drives comes an increased failure rate in my somewhat technical opinion. I was able to pick this drive up for $40 including S/H and feel that this was just right for the job. Seagate may have had a few problems in the past with their drives, though, this one doesn't show any signs of ill report.
I brought this HD from the geek squad and so far a very good hard drive. It is fast and is perfect for my Dell OptiPlex 755 (2007) Desktop. The Disk Data Transfer rate is 3.2; using 2 Gigs of Ram Memory on a Windows Home Premium 7 operating system. I consider this a very good value. Many thanks to the geek squad.
A word of warning about purchasing a Seagate ST3250318AS 250GB hard drive on Ebay. Some sellers are selling the HP version of this drive and it does not perform as well as the Seagate retail version. The drive I purchased says it’s a Seagate ST3250318AS on the outside of the drive but because of the HP firmware all software will read it as a VB0250EAVER with firmware HPG0. Seatools doesn’t recognize this drive as a Seagate drive so I was unable to install the Seagate firmware upgrade to fix the problems this drive has. HP does not offer an upgrade. What all this means to me is I now have a paperweight that worked as a hard drive for about three weeks.
It's an excellent hard drive, the increase in speed over my IDE drive is quite noticeable. This is my second re-certified drive. I very pleased with both. The price was right.
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