Seagate Barracuda 1.5TB hard drive problem ? Look here.

[Arwrologist]

I have a Dell Dimension E510, and it has a Seagate Barracuda 80 Gb, 7200 rpm hard drive. Can I replace it with a Barracuda 1.5Gb HD? I have already ordered one of those USB to SATA, IDA cables.

[jinzo317]

i have almost the same problem except i had a 1tb seagate and my os is on it... it acts up and begins to not even boot

[MrSinister1990]

Urm I think my hardrive is broke. I just heard a pop sound, looked down at my seagate and the light went out. I really hope it isn't broke.

[lilrip4300]

lol..you said theres two versions of them out there 3 times :)

[BEERxxPiRATE]

MY DRIVE'S CAPACITY IS LOWER THAN I EXPECTED

i ordered a 500 gb, i got 451gb

WTF!?!

fvck you very much SEAGATE!

(>.<)|m|

[workensmart]

@BEERxxPiRATE All hdd makers do that its not just seagate. Both of my Western Digital Hard drives are also like that. My 320 gb has 298 gb of usable space and my 500 gb has 465 gb of usable space. In most test both WD and Seagate Hard drives are about the same in performance.

[captain150]

@BEERxxPiRATE All hard drives do that. It's due to the different definition of gigabyte by hard drives VS windows.

You have the same amount of storage, it's just defined differently.

[1982jnr]

thaanks lots for that bit of info mate i have a 500 gb and could not get my head round why it not working as it works in in a sky box fine same problem just could not even see it but will get one of those addaptors as we speak thanks again

[TheSimsCreedGuy]

I sent it to seagate and they fixed it for free.

[TheSimsCreedGuy]

I have the OEM 500GB version firmware DE12. its not recognized by the bios but the disk spins, the firmware is reported to have a defect but I can't update it so are you absolutely sure the drive will be recognized with the usb to sata adapter?

[joekickass2819]

@TheSimsCreedGuy no it wont. i had to do the hack thing

and then it worked

[choconinny]

I destroyed a smaller version of one of these, It was useless. I didn't know they were around anymore

[myshowman]

Hello i was looking for the disk with jumper setting.

can you please send me Model no and s/n, etc , for the disk.

cause i purchased the wrong HDD & dealer is asking if such HDD exists i had to give him model & s/n for 1.5 seagate HDD with jumper setting enable.

[greatestunknown]

@myshowman Thanks for the heads up, You are probably not alone. I added the Seagate link on this issue in the description.

[Tanyu5hka]

WD is shit.

[21boxhead]

Samsung F3 outperforms all Caviar Blacks even 64mb version!

[21boxhead]

seagate is like toyota once, there were number 1 now going down for high failure rate

[transitionality]

Thank you for your help with troubleshooting what is otherwise a very obscure issue.

[Aldereen]

I have a problem with my 1.5 TB Seagate HDD. It doesn't show that it is 1.5 Tb... Only 465 GB.... Does anyone know how to fix this?

I am running Windows XP Pro on a Quad Core system. SATA II of course.

[thatstek]

SATA doesnt use jumpers

[greatestunknown]

Sata drives do not have master and slave jumpers. They do have jumpers to make the drive compatible with older systems by limiting the drive to 1.5gb/sec operation rather than the standard 3gb/sec.

[thatstek]

Good to know. Thanks

[21boxhead]

@thatstek yes they do on some sata drive but the jumpers are there to switch sata 3GB to sata 1.5GB

[Joseph9536]

I hate Seacrap! WD FTW!!!

[nikeyonut]

I don't have an old system (about 1-1.5 year old), I have 2 hard disks WD (1TB + 360GB) on SATA. A friend of mine camed to me check a HDD from his laptop which is a Seagate 2.5'', 120 GB, 5400 rpm and there is no jumper. Even the BIOS didn't see the HDD. I worked with several HDD, but always WD (older and newer) and never ever had this problem.

[Aslapacrosstheface]

I think the two different versions there are 7200.9 and 7200.11. Not sure.

[FISHYSNACKS1]

7200.10 & 7200.11

[lolokoperro]

thanks for the inf

[RuudGuitar]

Hai,

Thank you for your information. I don't have a 1.5tb drive, but the information about the usb2.0 to IDE adapter is very interesting. I didn't kown the existence of this adapter.

Ruud.

[itscool1968]

the pins do work mine came with the jumpers in the tiny packet with the screws that are in the box.

and work fine :)