Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #51862 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Seagate OEM
• Model: ST31000333AS
• Released on: 2008-11-17
• Dimensions: 11.81" h x 57.09" w x 70.87" l, 1.50 pounds

Manufacturer's Description
Designed with up to four platters and the only second-generation perpendicular recording technology in the industry, the Barracuda 7200.11 drive offers the ideal balance of world-class technology and value, providing customers with an optimal overall solution. The capacity, reliability and performance of this drive, along with its 5-year limited warranty, ensure the longevity of digital content for years to come.

The Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 drive delivers up to 43 per cent power savings over the previous desktop generation without sacrificing drive and system performance levels, giving customers the ability to manufacture eco-friendly PC systems and external storage systems that meet energy-savings requirements.

Seagate hard drives have long been produced with the environment in mind, and not just with low power consumption. Like all other Seagate drives, the Barracuda 7200.11 product family complies with the Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive — a regulation that limits the use of hazardous materials in electronic goods. Seagate also takes great pride in implementing numerous voluntary material restrictions for the good of the environment.

At Seagate we are committed to minimising the envirnmental impact of our products and operations, and producing energy-efficient, RoHS-compliant hard drives is just one element of that commitment. Our facilities are operated to be energy efficient and minimise our carbon footprint. For example, Seagate has implemented production efficiency measures, such as replacing or renovating less-efficient equipment, resulting in a 20 per cent increase in production efficiency on a per-hard-drive basis. In just six months this delivered a savings of 158.93 million kWh, or enough energy to power nearly 15,000 US homes for one year. Seagate has also deployed aggressive waste minimisation and recycling programmes in facilities worldwide.

Seagate employees are fully engaged in this environmental commitment and participate in many ways, from innovating eco-friendly hard drives, planting trees at company facilities and identifying eco-friendly manufacturing improvements, to car pooling and telecommuting.

With Seagate and the Barracuda 7200.11 drive, our customers can have the best of both worlds — top hard drive performance and the satisfaction of knowing they are using a high-capacity drive with a very small eco-footprint.

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Customer Reviews

avoid avoid avoid - known issues
I have always used Seagate drives for their reliability.

The drive came with a a disc utility cdrom, screws, a data cable and a power cable. Installation was simple enough and the drive was recognised from the first boot up of the machine. Windows with SP3 recognised the whole drive in disk management and it was formatted and had data loading within minutes of installation.

Unfortunately their 1tb and 1.5tb drives have a known problem where the drives freeze in a "busy" mode and the whole pc freezes. This happened to me during boot mode, in dos mode and in windows mode. Go to the seagate forum and search on st31000340as failure and read the 100's of disgruntled customer threads about this same problem.

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The problem is quite eratic. Sometimes it works fine for 7 hours before freezing, sometimes it fails several times in 5 minutes. I have had to remove the drive from my pc to get a stable environment again. This drive is on its way back to seagate.

Big problems with sudden failure - "boot of death".
Stay well away from these drives. They have a major firmware bug that will set the drive to busy, and lock you out. No PC's BIOS will not be able to see the drive. You will lose your data and get a refurbed drive back from Seagate that may well do the same again.

There are loads of stories about this all over the web, even on Seagate's own forums, but they deny there is a problem. I had one of these drive die in six weeks with no warning at all.

Do Not Buy
I can vouch for these other poor reviews. I got mine at the beginning of January and it has already died after less than 2 months. Seems to be the "Busy" problem. It spins up fine, no abnormal sounds, it's just not recognised by the bios anymore.