Great Price on 1TB Seagate Drive

November 30, 2011

in News

UPDATE:

Just after ordering a couple of these drives Amazon has almost doubled the price. I got mine for $72 but they are now $131. Yikes! Someone made a mistake. Hopefully a couple of you scored cheap drives with me!

Hard drive space is oxygen for shooters/editors.

Could not believe my eyes when I saw the price of this drive on Amazon. I know the prices of hard drives have skyrocketed because of the flooding in Thailand. So to find a 1TB drive with the speed of 7200RPM was a huge surprise. Grab them while you can! (to late. Prices have gone up). All my drives are seagates and they have perform well form me other the years.

Seagate Barracuda 1 TB 7200RPM SATA Drive.

 

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  • SkunkWorks

    Caleb, you’re going to hate me man, but these Seagate hard drive have a really high failure rate.  Seagate’s reputation had been pretty solid for a good 5 years and was the “brand to get” up until they put out their 1TB drives some years back… it really hurt them and most IT professionals I know won’t touch Seagate anymore or at least these specific drives with a 10 foot pole. It all started with the 7200.11 series. The thread in Seagate’s support forum became dozens if not hundreds of pages long over this and they were actually denying a problem for the longest time. I see the one you posted is the 7200.12 series which was supposed to resolve the issue but the forum and other venues on the web don’t really reflect that. I’m seeing evidence of this in the reviews for the listing you posted. Mine lasted a year or two before it failed but it’s more common for them to fail within months. I did a lot of research  a year or two ago into what would be the current better alternative and the answer is almost unanimously the Western Digital Caviar Black series which now has the reputation that Seagate used to have before this fiasco ;)
    I hate to be doom and gloom guy here once again but I’d really hate to see people start snapping these up and end up going through what I and an unusually high percentage of other buyers want went through.

  • http://dslrvideoshooter.com calebpike

    Thanks for the info. Its funny because I have 4 of these already and they have been working fine. Two are over 2 years old. Maybe I am just one of those lucky bastards :) I’ve always bought seagates but I might give WD a chance going forward. Thanks for sharing your research.

  • Jason

    I also have a 2TB and its been working non-stop for a year and half with no issues. 

    The price thing is not a mistake. Due to the floods in Thailand, Hard drive prices have recently shot up as much as 100 – 200% over what they were a few months ago. 

  • http://dslrvideoshooter.com calebpike

    Yeah but for it to go from $72 to $131 about 5 minutes AFTER I bought a few this morning? That can’t be right. It was easily the cheapest 1TB on Amazon at the time.

  • SkunkWorks

    Yeah I thought I got lucky too cause most failures are either right out of the box or within a few months. Got about a year and a half maybe 2 years give or take before mine failed a few months ago. Tried everything including the firmware flash. It’s not recoverable. Have been happy with my WD Caviar Blacks as most people are. There are bad apples in every bunch by every brand but the Seagate thing really was (is) quite the fiasco.