Seagate ST31500341AS (Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB) dead on arrival (clicking)

This is my BRAND NEW Barracuda 7200.11, which apparently is Dead On Arrival. Only the power cable is plugged in and the drive doesn't even finish the self test. (You can hear my other Barracuda (120GB) drive and floppy in the background)

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Science & Technology

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• seagate
• failure
• hdd
• hard
• drive

[nickdacomputerbof]

seagate harddrives are the worse on the market i have gone through 3 failed seagate drives and where i work we ship alot of hp desktops, hp went through a phase of shipping seagate drives in their desktops out of 10 machines must of had about 5 back DONT BUY SEAGATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Western Digital all the way :)

[ikari87]

@nickdacomputerbof Funny, I bought this Seagate drive because my Western Digital died after 6 months of barely being used (since it was an external drive). And besides this one, I have never had problems with Seagate, I even have a working 11-year-old 40GB drive :)

[Xearo167]

@ikari87 them external enclosures are cheap and now days they use a SATA to USB converting chip.. better off taking the drive out and putting it on a real controller... I did mine that way and I have had it for almost two years.. excluding the time my dad had it *3 years* in the enclosure with constant use.

[Xearo167]

Every barracuda 7200 RPM seagate drive i owned or came across died... my first one was a 40 gig model... and yup.. 3 months later it don't even power up... second was the big brother... same model just 80 gigs... it died randomly one morning before I went to school.. SEAGATE SUCKS

[lmadope]

Seagate makes the crappiest hard drive go to Newegg Bestbuy or Walmart's web site and read the user comments on Seagate internal and and external drives

[lmadope]

Seagate makes the crappiest hard drive go to Newegg Bestbuy or Walmart's web site and read the user comments on Seagate internal and and external drives

[ikari87]

@Brickstin i got a thermaltake cooling case - it's a one big black radiator for the drive, weighs about 600 grams and makes it a 5.25" bay size cold black box.

[Brickstin]

@ikari87 Yes I strongly agree with you thank you for that advice but I kinda already knew that : it's no problem I am one step ahead of you. I went ahead and mounted a Hard drive cooling fan kit on it to keep it at low temp. I'm sure you got a Hard drive cooler too? And if so, watercooled or fan driven cooled?I have Ultra cooling fans product.

[ikari87]

@Brickstin thankfully the second drive was send in a incredibly "careful" box :) I think nothing could go wrong inside. By the way, the drive tends to overheat when it works long, be careful at its temperature.

[Brickstin]

@ikari87 yeah Im sorry I was just wondering if you had tried that back then when you first got it. and if you ever get a new sata drive wouldn't hurt to test it like that the way I asked too. Sometimes.. when you get Hard drive orders from the mail. IT really sucks because the carriers can sometimes be careless and the drive gets a bad static shock.. Killing the controller card on the hard drive =/ Glad you got your 1.5 replaced. I have one too.. its an LP model.. *Prays nothing goes wrong* >_<