Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 300GB

Npetune3000 · 12-14-05, 07:20 AM

Greetings:

I ordered the Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 300GB hard drive at outpost during their thanksgiving sale. After rebates I am getting it for 69bucks.

I was wondering how it stacked up against similar HDs as far as reliability. I recall hearing these drives fail left and right, but i cant find any tangible sources.

The drives comes in tomorrow and I'm not sure if I should have it returned or not. At the time I bought it, it seemed like a good deal. But now I need the money for "other things(xmas" and I'm not sure if this drive is reliable enough to worth the risk.

Any comments?

dylskee · 12-14-05, 08:29 AM

I have used Seagate's a lot and i personally have never had one fail on me yet. I just bought the Seagate Barricuda 7200 300GB Sata150 and i paid $120. so i would say you got a good deal so keep it.

cullam3n · 12-14-05, 08:35 AM

I have the 200gb 7200.8 SATA that was used for about a month in a server environment and I have no problems to date. It's not as quiet as my 7200.4 but it's fast.

David · 12-14-05, 08:54 AM

Previously had an old 30GB Baracuda which ran perfectly and is now 5 years old and running fine. I have had two 40GB ATA IV drives, of which one is in my server now and the other I am giving to a friend. In my machine I have a 120GB Samsung, and a 200GB SATA 7200.7 and 200GB PATA 7200.8 - all three drives are pretty damn quiet and none have failed on me (being ~2 years, ~7months and ~1 month old).

sup3rcarrx8 · 12-14-05, 10:28 AM

I have two of those exact drives except that they're SATA drives in my system in RAID 0 and these drives pretty much fly and stay silent at the same time. I haven't had any problems with them at all either - two of the best hard drives i've ever invested in.

grumperfish · 12-14-05, 12:43 PM

I have a couple Seagate 7200.8 250gb sata drives (non-raid setup) and an 80gb 7200.7 IDE. Compared to the IDE the sata drives are quiet. I have spire HDD coolers on them so they hover at 28-32deg. I can't hear them at all except for an occasional mouse-like click or two under very heavy I/O load. I've had the IDE drive for about 3 years now and it still works fine.

The 7200.8's have given me zero problems [knock on wood] in 6 months. The maxtor I had before though...

K15 · 12-14-05, 03:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Npetune3000

Greetings:

I ordered the Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 300GB hard drive at outpost during their thanksgiving sale. After rebates I am getting it for 69bucks.

I was wondering how it stacked up against similar HDs as far as reliability. I recall hearing these drives fail left and right, but i cant find any tangible sources.

The drives comes in tomorrow and I'm not sure if I should have it returned or not. At the time I bought it, it seemed like a good deal. But now I need the money for "other things(xmas" and I'm not sure if this drive is reliable enough to worth the risk.

Any comments?

I have heard the opposite, Seagates are among the most reliable drives, with mechanical problems almost non-existant and some minor firmware problems in earlier models.
In terms of drives purchased, failure rates are BELOW 1%. So if 1000 drives are purchased, less than 10 will fail under warranty. The only drives this doesn't really apply to is the IBM "deathstar", with failure rates of 20-50%

The Hitachi drives however, are average/normal drives. With the usual VERY low failure rate. Motherboard failure rates are about 3-5%, for comparison.
I don't really understand how people can have drives that fail all the time, unless they put a heater on the drive, I don't get it. Of the 7 drives CURRENTLY running right now, one is 10 years old, one is 5 years old and the rest are from 4 years-2 weeks old. Not a single failure or problem.

If you go on a forum and ask "what company makes the WORST drives" just look at 30 posts. There is a thread here with that exact heading, one person will say "I HATE Western Digital, nothing but problems". Then the next person will say they LOVE WD. This happens when something has <1% fail rate.
IMO, most of drive failure is due to shipping damage or heat.

Npetune3000 · 12-14-05, 03:51 PM

I know segate has good drives. I just heard that these 300gig version ones have had a lot fo issues

K15 · 12-14-05, 07:50 PM

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I know segate has good drives. I just heard that these 300gig version ones have had a lot fo issues

That could be, I was just mentioning how low the likelihood that you would get a bad drive is. Unless a drive is using totally new technology (like the IBM deathstars were), mechanical problems shouldn't be an issue.

12-14-05, 07:20 AM	Thread Starter #1
Npetune3000 Member Join Date: Oct 2004	Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 300GB Greetings: I ordered the Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 300GB hard drive at outpost during their thanksgiving sale. After rebates I am getting it for 69bucks. I was wondering how it stacked up against similar HDs as far as reliability. I recall hearing these drives fail left and right, but i cant find any tangible sources. The drives comes in tomorrow and I'm not sure if I should have it returned or not. At the time I bought it, it seemed like a good deal. But now I need the money for "other things(xmas" and I'm not sure if this drive is reliable enough to worth the risk. Any comments?
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dylskee Member Join Date: Mar 2005	I have used Seagate's a lot and i personally have never had one fail on me yet. I just bought the Seagate Barricuda 7200 300GB Sata150 and i paid $120. so i would say you got a good deal so keep it. __________________ i7 920 Classified X58 760 eVGA GTX 680 4GB Gentle Typhoon 1850s 12GB 6x2GB Corsair Dominator 1600 120GB OCZ Vertex II SSD - 1TB External HDD 850W CoolerMaster RS-850-EMBA PSU LG 32LD450 32" Dell 2209WA 22" Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit Heatware 124-0-0
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cullam3n Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: The River City	I have the 200gb 7200.8 SATA that was used for about a month in a server environment and I have no problems to date. It's not as quiet as my 7200.4 but it's fast. __________________ My Rigs: Main - i5 3570K \| eVGA Z77 FTW \| GTX 670 2GB \| 16GB DDR3 1333 \| Momentus XT 500GB \| XFX 850w Black HTPC - C²D E8400 \| EP45-UD3P \| GT 520 \| 4GB DDR2 1066 \| OCZ Agility 3 60GB \| ST50F-P NAS - E350M1/USB3 \| 2GB DDR3 1066 \| 4x1TB WD Blue \| ST50F-P Travel - UX32VD-DH71 \| i7 3517U \| 10GB DDR3 1600 \| GT 620M --Ultrabook life HeatWare
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12-14-05, 08:54 AM	#4
David Forums Super Moderator Overclockers.com Lead Editor Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Hiding from Americans and making pretty colours in a drybox in St Andrews	Previously had an old 30GB Baracuda which ran perfectly and is now 5 years old and running fine. I have had two 40GB ATA IV drives, of which one is in my server now and the other I am giving to a friend. In my machine I have a 120GB Samsung, and a 200GB SATA 7200.7 and 200GB PATA 7200.8 - all three drives are pretty damn quiet and none have failed on me (being ~2 years, ~7months and ~1 month old). __________________ David J. Nelson MChem(Edin) PhD(Strath) AMRSC [Academia Profile] OC Forums Super Moderator // Overclockers.com Editor The Workhorse: [Lenovo W510] Intel Core i7-720QM / 8 GB DDR3 / nVidia Quadro FX880M / Crucial M4 256 GB SSD / Windows 7 The HTPC/Server: AMD Phenom X4 9650 / 6 GB DDR2 / nVidia 8300 / 5 TB of HDDs / Antec Solo II Case / Windows 7 The Gaming Rig: AMD Llano A6-3650 / 4 GB DDR3 / nVidia GTX260 / 2x 500 GB HDD in RAID0 / Antec Dark Fleet DF-85 Case / Windows 7 The Benchmarking Setup: Various LGA775 chips / Asus Rampage Formula / 2 GB OCZ 1066 MHz DDR2 / nVidia Quadro NVS 285 / 320 GB HDD / Windows 7 My research fellowship is eating all my time, so I may be slow to reply to emails and private messages.
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sup3rcarrx8 Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Folding in California	I have two of those exact drives except that they're SATA drives in my system in RAID 0 and these drives pretty much fly and stay silent at the same time. I haven't had any problems with them at all either - two of the best hard drives i've ever invested in. __________________ MSI P7N-SLI Intel Q6600 @ stock speed 4GB (2x2GB) Corsair DDR2 800 896MB nVidia GTX260 OCZ GameXStream 700W NEC-3550A BURNER 12x BTC DVD-ROM 1TB Seagate SATA HDD Heat at sup3rcarrx7
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12-14-05, 12:43 PM	#6
grumperfish Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: South Florida	I have a couple Seagate 7200.8 250gb sata drives (non-raid setup) and an 80gb 7200.7 IDE. Compared to the IDE the sata drives are quiet. I have spire HDD coolers on them so they hover at 28-32deg. I can't hear them at all except for an occasional mouse-like click or two under very heavy I/O load. I've had the IDE drive for about 3 years now and it still works fine. The 7200.8's have given me zero problems [knock on wood] in 6 months. The maxtor I had before though... __________________ Desktop: i7 2600K @ 4.6ghz w/ TR HR-02 + SD 120x38mm // Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3P // XFX 6950 2GB 16GB G-Skill RipjawsX 1600mhz // Samsung 830 128GB // 6TB // Thermaltake Armor // Corsair TX750 Server: Q6600 G0 // Gigabyte EP35-DS3R // 4GB G-Skill DDR2 // 4850 512MB // 4.25TB // Corsair TX650 Laptop: Latitude D630 // C2M T7300 // 4GB DDR2 // X3100 // 160GB Smoothwall: P4 2.4C // 1GB DDR // AOpen MX4GVR // 80GB // Corsair CX430 I like HEAT
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12-14-05, 03:51 PM	Thread Starter #8
Npetune3000 Member Join Date: Oct 2004	I know segate has good drives. I just heard that these 300gig version ones have had a lot fo issues
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