BEWARE Buying Seagate 2TB 7200.14 ST2000DM001 Drives!

[rhyseyness]

I just quoted that wikipedia article to contradict the guy saying that 3 platters with less density is faster than 2 platters with more density...

 

It wasn't broken, I checked it thouroughly, it is just that the 3 platter version of this drive is potentially a bad product and Seagate intentionally introduced it to the market.

 

I never discouraged anyone from buying a Seagate drive, I just wanted to warn people that they might not get what they paid for... You don't have to be offensive.

 

Here are some more articles for those who care to investigate:

 

http://www.erodov.com/forums/how-check-if-hdd-7200-14-not/56945.html

 

http://forums.seagate.com/stx/board/crawl_message?board.id=ata_drives&message.id=28513

I don't see the offensive part of my statement, I had no intention of causing offence. Apologies

The way in which you have worded what you've said so far has no doubt discouraged people from buying seagate drives.

There's a difference between a bad review and a biased rant. To me, this seemed like the latter

[sotiris.bos]

I don't see the offensive part of my statement, I had no intention of causing offence. Apologies

The way in which you have worded what you've said so far has no doubt discouraged people from buying seagate drives.

There's a difference between a bad review and a biased rant. To me, this seemed like the latter

My intention was not to discourage people from buying a Seagate drive or to rant, just to inform. By all means I stated that I really like my Seagate drive but didn't like the first version they sent me which by the way was checked by the reatailer too and nothing wrong was found. I will edit my first post just to make it clear that people shouldn't be discouraged but make some reasearch before buying an ST2000DM001 as they might not get what they paid for (which is what happened to me in the beginning). Thank you for clarifying that this might discourage people.

[rhyseyness]

My intention was not to discourage people from buying a Seagate drive or to rant, just to inform. By all means I stated that I really like my Seagate drive but didn't like the first version they sent me which by the way was checked by the reatailer too and nothing wrong was found. I will edit my first post just to make it clear that people shouldn't be discouraged but make some reasearch before buying an ST2000DM001 as they might not get what they paid for (which is what happened to me in the beginning). Thank you for clarifying that this might discourage people.

Thank you for being civil about it

Apologies for any offense or upset I may have caused

 

Have a nice day

[Canoas]

Just so you know, WD does the same thing.

[sotiris.bos]

Just so you know, WD does the same thing.

On which drives if you know?

[Canoas]

On which drives if you know?

I think it was the 2TB Caviar Green, but they most likely do it with more.

[sotiris.bos]

I think it was the 2TB Caviar Green, but they most likely do it with more.

Good to know. Lesson learned, always research thoroughly before buying hardware...

[zeros]

As a side note I have a Seagate 2TB ST2000DM001 drive and it's quite fast... or should I say it was fast.. It broke after 7 months.. Will RMA it sometime... so yeah I will not get this model anymore for sure. I can allow myself to buy countless drives just to back up files.

I also have a WD 1TB Green Drive for 4 years that I use as main+boot drive and it still works. So WD FTW .

 

Edit: As a side note I did check now your link for comparison, never-mind my post. Seems like I have the 1TB platter one, maybe I was just unlucky with this one.

[sotiris.bos]

I think all HDDs are ticking time bombs. I will start bakcing up my data more frequently now though.

[Torand]

Just so you know, WD does the same thing.

 

 

I think it was the 2TB Caviar Green, but they most likely do it with more.

 

 

On which drives if you know?

 

 

They do, its the Green drives. I had to tread carefully around them. The EZRX vs EFRX, there is a small price difference. The speed is the same, capacity, cache, etc.. its just the price changes as per the way the platters are separated, you pay more for less platters but of larger size per platter.

[mr moose]

Well It looks like I have the smaller platter size with more platers, but as I said before I have not noticed any noise or speed issues.  I do wonder sometimes whether the end user would actually perceive a difference between them during everyday use?

[looney]

I believe MG2R also told me that he found them to be loud, my server only has the 1TB platter versions so I never encountered these problems.

Thank you for pointing this out to the community, I don't think I will recommend them for desktops any more after this as its not easy to know which one your getting if you buy them online.

For servers though they will still be my recommended storage drive because noise doesn't really matter and people who buy these large server wont have a problem with checking the HDD version they are getting.