Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 400GB HD - Any good? Opinions?

Hi.
I've got Mac Pro dual 2ghz w/ 2gigs of RAM - 250gb main HD for programs.
I just picked up a 2nd hard drive that I'm going to use for audio production - basically keep all my sounds/files on it - Using Logic Express 7.2 and Soundtrack pro.
I got a Seagate 7200.9 400gb hard drive (16mb cache) from Fry's, but I've seen a lot of negative reviews on Seagate drives here. I haven't formatted it yet, so I wanted to get some advice and opinions from everyone here.
Should I keep it? Should I exchange it? Please help!
Thanks in advance for your responses!
Mac Pro 2ghz Mac OS X (10.4.8) Presonus Firebox Audio Interface

Hey Dean,
when last i went to fry's here in AZ, they only had Maxtors and Seagates just a few days ago... i went there looking for a Raptor and they ran out of 150's and told me they weren't getting any more WD drives... so i left, went to ComUSA and did the deed there. they had WD drives there, but they're much less expensive at newegg.com
you know, i can't really answer you about the drive you bought because i don't know the model number. however, i can tell you i had 2 500GB Seagate ST3500641AS drives installed from Apple and they both took over 9+ hours to zero out, most likely due to either firmware or heat, or both... my 150GB Raptor zeroed out in 24 minutes and my WD RE2 zeroed out in about 2 hours.
so based on what i know and don't know about your new drive, i'd just do a basic real-world test and try zeroing out the drive. if it takes under 3 hours, it would seem you've got yourself a keeper. any longer than that? well, read these posts and you'll see what i mean...
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=3766880#3766880
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=3754337#3754337
good luck to you!

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Cloning WinXP onto Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 SATA hard disk

Greetings everybody!
I recently wanted to clone my existing (perfectly working) Windows XP Home boot hard disk onto a brand new 320 GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 SATA drive, model ST3320620AS. The existing boot C-disk is a 250 GB Western Digital SATA, which is in my Fujitsu Siemens Scaleo P (the CPU being an AMD Athlon 64 3700+). The motherboard is an ASUS A8NE-FM with the SATA interface being a NVIDIA nForce4 Serial ATA Controller.
I struggled quite a bit getting the cloned Seagate SATA disk to work as a Windows XP boot drive, but eventually got it working – using Acronis True Image Home version 9, build 3.854 (http://www.acronis.com/). Here’s how I eventually succeeded; hope it may be useful to others! ( - and I of course realize that ASUS motherboards are not made by MSI, but at the same time I have seen several MSI-users reporting similar difficulties…).
A small hint: You may download, at no cost, a full-functioning version of “Acronis True Image 10 Home”, usable for a 15 days trial period (http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/download/trueimage/). If you can manage to clone your hard disk within this period, well, it’ll be completely free! A free Windows XP clone utility, which I don’t know how well functions, is XXclone, see http://xxclone.com/.
Here’s how I did (there may be other ways, but, well, this worked for me):
1) First mounted the Seagate ST3320620AS as the D-drive (the C-drive being the Western Digital boot drive). Kept Seagate factory-default jumper setting (“Limit data transfer rate to 1.5 Gbits per second “). Booted up, went into the BIOS (being Nvidia 42302e31 Phoenix AwardBIOS v6.00PG according to ”System Info for Windows” from http://www.gtopala.com/ ), and configured the Seagate drive as follows: Second Master SATA HDD, Extended IDE Drive: Auto, Access Mode: Large (NB: Do NOT select ”Auto” here!!), Capacity: 320 GB, Cylinder: 4095, Head: 240, Precomp: 0, Landing Zone: 65534, Sector: 255. Save configuration and exit BIOS.
2) Booted up on the old Western Digital C-drive. Used Seagate’s DiscWizard to format and partition the ST3320620AS (http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/discwizard). The drive was formatted NTFS (4k block size, and one single partition). This went smooth (Windows XP however complained of some of the Seagate drivers not being ”WHQL certified” – just continued, anyway). Then right-clicked on ”My Computer" --> "Manage" --> ”Computer Management” --> ”Disk Management”. Right-clicked on the Seagate disk, then clicked ”Mark Partition as Active”. The Seagate drive is now seen in Windows as drive D, and is ready for use.
3) Ran Acronis True Image Home ver. 9, build 3.854 and cloned the Western Digital disk onto the Seagate. This went smooth and took less than five minutes (data amount on the Western Digital C-drive, containing Windows XP Home, \Program Files, \Documents and Settings and not much else, being approx. 10 GB). Impressing fast cloning! Exit and shut-down.
4) Removed the Western Digital drive from the PC, keeping only the new Seagate disk. Booted, went into BIOS, configured the boot drive as the Seagate: First or Second Master SATA HDD (according to what SATA cable is being used), Extended IDE Drive: Auto, Access Mode: Large (NB: Do NOT select ”Auto” here!!), Capacity: 320 GB, Cylinder: 4095, Head: 240, Precomp: 0, Landing Zone: 65534, Sector: 255. Save and exit BIOS.
5) Booted into Windows XP Home on the newly cloned Seagate SATA drive. Success!! End of story!
THANKS to several of ASUS forum users help!
Best regards,
Johan
Copenhagen
Denmark
NOTE the there seems to be an error in some of the ASUS motherboards (or in the BIOS?), incl. the A8NE-FM, which makes it impossible to boot from an apparently successfully Windows XP cloned Seagate SATA drive unless first having set the ”Access Mode” in the BIOS to ”Large” before formatting and cloning. Some also claim that NCQ for the Seagate drive must be disabled; I have not done this and the cloned drive boots and works perfectly with NCQ enabled. (NB: If not setting ”Access Mode” to ”Large”, but if keeping the default BIOS setting of ”Auto”, then it is perfectly possible to both format, partition, set active and clone onto the drive. When attempting to boot using the cloned drive one gets this message: ”Error loading operating system” (or in Danish: ”Fejl ved indlæsning af operativsystem”). Further links discussing this issue:
SATA boot problem: http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?id=20060822025446574&board_id=1&model=A8N-E&page=1&SLanguage=en-us
Cannot boot from SATA drive: http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?id=20061109224813953&board_id=1&model=A8N-E&page=1&SLanguage=en-us
Problem with installing XP on 320 GB HDD: http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?id=20060622193708298&board_id=1&model=A8N-E&page=1&SLanguage=en-us
Seagate SATAII disk unable to boot: http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?id=20060518000042851&board_id=1&model=A8N-E&page=1&SLanguage=en-us
A8N-E, SATA and XP Professional Installation: http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?id=20060327192440824&board_id=1&model=A8N-E&page=1&SLanguage=en-us

"NOTE the there seems to be an error in some of the ASUS motherboards (or in the BIOS?), incl. the A8NE-FM, which makes it impossible to boot from an apparently successfully Windows XP cloned Seagate SATA drive unless first having set the ”Access Mode” in the BIOS to ”Large” before formatting and cloning. Some also claim that NCQ for the Seagate drive must be disabled; I have not done this and the cloned drive boots and works perfectly with NCQ enabled. (NB: If not setting ”Access Mode” to ”Large”, but if keeping the default BIOS setting of ”Auto”, then it is perfectly possible to both format, partition, set active and clone onto the drive. When attempting to boot using the cloned drive one gets this message: ”Error loading operating system” (or in Danish: ”Fejl ved indlæsning af operativsystem”). Further links discussing this issue:"
that links are useless(for MSI owners), its described bug into BIOS which cannot determinate property HDD access mode. its specified problem related to this Asus board and specific BIOS version. exactly same problem happend and arrive with Gigabyte board after update BIOS to the latest one which suppose to fix "some things" and totally unexpected in background comes this issue..... seems some of Asus BIOSes got same issue...
MSI boards doesn't have this issue in any BIOS version.

Seagate Barracuda 7200 160gb Won't Mount

I have a Seagate Barracuda 7200 160gb from a PowerMac G5. It spins up just fine. Sounds normal but is not mounting. I have used a Manhattan USB Dock, A Universal USB Drive Adapter. I had it mounted once externally and ran Disk Repair on it, and it still would not mount in the G5. I even took it to a local data recovery shop and they can't see it either. I've read a lot online about possibly replacing the PDB Circuit Board or the BIOS chip. I've also ran Disk Warrior - doesn't see it.
Is there a way to check what is actually the issue? BIOS, Board, Corrupted OS, etc.?
Tomorrow I'm calling Seagate to see if they can do anything. Basically I'm trying to get the data off of it for someone, then get a new drive and install then migrate assist if possible.
Thanks for any help

why would I need another drive.
To scavenge the board.
You can't just slap any old board on there.
The same model and the same firmware are the general requirements for board swaps to gain access to data....
Why would it need this?
The data rate limit is needed on retail drives to allow proper communication with the G5 controller.
The G5 controller and Seagate retail drives have a nasty history. One, the limit jumper is needed, but NCQ was enabled by default, and later, so was SSC. Neither of these features is compatible with the G5 controller.
It is the drive that was shipped with it when he bought it brand new from Apple.
Hmmm, my ESP wasn't working as well as it usually does.....
If the drive is OEM Apple shipped, then it has Apple firmware which changes jumper requirements.

IMAC 2010 which HDD can I use to replace the malfunctioned Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB?

iMAC 2010 which HDD can I use to replace the malfunctioned Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB?

After doing a bit more research, the 2010 iMacs do appear to have a third cable connecting to the hard drive, for the internal temp sensor. This would appear to be the block of 8 pins that are on almost all drives, but they are normally intended for jumpers. Unfortunately I was unable to find any documentation or specs that would indicate this pin block connects to the internal temp sensor on either standard (non-Apple) WD Black or Seagate 7200.12 drives.
I did find some info that may be of some use:
WD: Where to connect an external temperature sensor to a Serial ATA or EIDE hard drive.iFixit: Replace the hard drive, how do I connect the hard drive thermal sensor?
Apple Technician Guide: iMac 2010 27" (mid-2010)
Various discussion threads I found through google searching indicated some people succeeded with installing an external temp sensor on the body of the drive.
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Seagate Barracuda 7200.1 500GB 7200RPM S300 32MB

Will the:
Seagate Barracuda 7200.1 500GB 7200RPM S300 32MB
be compatible in my
2 x 2.66GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon Mac Pro
I noticed that my machine has a Seagate Baraacude 250GB drive in so I assumed this would also work.
Do I need to purchase additional SATA cables or do these drives plug directly into the motherboard of the MacPro?

Yes, it will work. Installation information is in the Mac Pro User Guide manual that came with your computer. Page 38, I believe.

MSI K8N Neo4-F + Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 120Gb PATA = PIO

If I have the two above components together, and enable DMA in the BIOS, the system won't boot. I have to disable DMA to get the system to boot, but then transfer speeds are excruciating!
Suggestions? Can't be a driver issue as I get this problem even before an OS is installed.
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Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 or ES.2 for RAID 5

Hello all.
I've searched through past topics to avoid repetition, and my knowledge of RAID is somewhat limited. Nonetheless.....
I've purchased a Mac Pro 2x Quad Core for the audio company that I work for, and plan to fill up the hard drives with an extensive audio library which will be accessed via Logic Studio.
We are planning on purchasing a RAID card, using RAID 5 in order to stripe and mirror the drives.
The hard drives we are looking at are Seagate Barracuda 1TB drives, and I am struggling to determine which will be most appropriate.
Having researched around, it was suggested to me that the Seagate Barracuda ES.2 drives are more appropriate for using with a RAID card, although considering the increased cost compared to the 7200.11 drives [an extra £180), I'd like to find out is this is really necessary.
If any of you have any advice, suggestions, etc., I would be most grateful.
Louise.

If you are in an enterprise in which these drives will be in relatively continuous use, then it would be wise to purchase the ES enterprise models because they are intended for heavy enterprise usage. If all you do is an occasional backup to the RAID and the usage is light and the drives are not running 24/7, then you may do fine with the less expensive versions.
Here is some information and additional links to help you learn more about RAIDs.
RAID Basics
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RAID Tutorial;
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Hardware or Software RAID?
RAID Hardware Vs RAID Software - What is your best option?
RAID is a method of combining multiple disk drives into a single entity in order to improve the overall performance and reliability of your system. The different options for combining the disks are referred to as RAID levels. There are several different levels of RAID available depending on the needs of your system. One of the options available to you is whether you should use a Hardware RAID solution or a Software RAID solution.
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Pros and cons
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Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 Hard drive

In a Presario SR1817CL with Windows XP and 512MB memory, the Seagate 200GB 7200.8 hardrive is erratic, can't open desktop. Have a 500GB 7200.11 available to replace it. Will my PC support it and will I need any other changes?

Hibbs wrote:
In a Presario SR1817CL with Windows XP and 512MB memory, the Seagate 200GB 7200.8 hardrive is erratic, can't open desktop. Have a 500GB 7200.11 available to replace it. Will my PC support it and will I need any other changes?
The Presario is a desktop so a 500GB SATA hard drive should work..
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Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 vs 7200.11

I am going to add an additional hard drive to my G5 quad and was thinking of a Seagate in the 500GB size. This drive will act mainly as a scratch and media drive (my photos are getting out of hand)
I read somewhere that the 11th generation of the Barracuda drives is not compatible with G5 systems, that I have to go down to the 10th generation (something to do with Spread Spectrum Clocking) which also means 16mb buffer instead of 32mb
Has anyone had any luck with either of these drives?
Wojtek from Canada

Have you checked here?
http://forums.xlr8yourmac.com/drivedb/search.drivedb.lasso
OWC always checks Seagate and sometimes other models for latest firmware, so I would check there.
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/hard-drives/3.5-SerialATA/
As for size etc. I prefer WD and would look at their 640GB model.
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Western%20Digital/WD6400AAKS/
http://www.barefeats.com/harper14.html

1.5TB Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 SATA II 7200RPM 32MB

Anyone know any reason not to use this drive for video & FCP?

PK...we recently had some problems with Seagate drives. The issue ended up being a faulty drive, but the troubleshooting involved running the Seagate Firmware Update, which you can find here...
http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207951
Following are the instructions that Rick at MacGurus so graciously provided...
The download fro Seagate mounts a disk image of a drive check utility (drive detect) that is useless except on a Windows machine. However, also in the download and in your downloads folder will be a couple other files that are the actual firmware updaters. The one with an ISO is the one you use in a MacPro. You insert a clean CD into your MacPro, select burn Disk Image and select the ISO file as the image. Then, shutdown, remove all other drives from inside the MacPro, install any Seagate drives that are appropriate for the firmware updater into the MacPro. Startup to the CD by holding the 'C' key. The CD is a bootable DOS disk with the updater on it. Only 4 letters for commands in the DOS environment: scan, update, exit and instructions. Simple and easy. When firmware update is complete you return system to normal and you are done. The update can be done in the Burly. However, only one drive per PM board is visible when booted to the DOS Bios updater. The one port is the 'pass through port' for bios since the rest of the PM board driver is not present in that simple of an operating environment. I have found it easier to just move the drives to the MacPro than to fool around with them in the Burly figuring out which bays are connected to the pass through port.. Either way, as long as the firmware updater is run the drives will be safer.<</div>
I followed these instructions and found that Rick's suggestion to boot up with the 'C' key worked, while the Seagate instructions (which said to boot up holding the 'option' key, IIRC) did not.
Also make sure you remove your boot drive, so you don't inadvertently apply the firmware update to it...unless, of course your boot drive is one of the problematic Seagate drives.
Hope that helps,
Kevan

80 GB unformatted. straight out of the factory Seagate Barracuda 7200 rpm

I own a BRAND NEW seagate HD and i was wondering if i could Mac Format it and put it in my Mac:
iMac
333 MHz
6 GB HD
92 MB RAM
Mac OS X 10.1.x
Tray Loading
24x CD-ROM
No Firewire
Classic Environment Does not work
Any Comments would be helpful!

Hey, almost the same topic question as another poster...
Yes, that should work fine. If you have an external drive case with USB, it would be useful. Even if the USB is slow on the G3 iMac, it will allow you do to the "cloning" process to replicate your current drive. If you are planning to get one for this purpose, you may want to pay a little more to get an external case with both Firewire and USB 2.0. That way, you can use it on other Macs with Firewire (or on a PC with USB 2.0)
Important Note: Your model iMac has a limitation in the IDE controller (or its driver) that requires the startup volume to fit within the first 8GB of disk space. This issue is explained here, with the solution.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25249
Based on my experience, you need to make that first partition 7.8 GB or smaller. The second partition can be any size, and you can further partition the remaining space. Note that the 8GB limit exists only during the startup process. Once control is handed off to the OS, there is no limit and the IDE controller will recognize up to 128 GB. Choose HFS+ as the format type when you partition.
Classic Environment Does not work
Hopefully you can get that resolved after the hard drive upgrade. Using a new fast hard drive with a big cache, you will notice a substantial performance increase. For $30-40, you can give it a 256MB memory boost
http://eshop.macsales.com/MyOWC/Upgrades.cfm?model=61&type=Memory&TI=3554&shoupg rds=Show+Upgrades
Classic probably does not work because of lack of RAM.

Replacing internal HDD for my 2007 24" iMac- old one is Seagate Barracuda 7200 10, 750GB (ST3750640AS). Can I replace it with a Seagate 7200 12, 1TB (ST31000524AS)?

Original HDD failed. Want to keep the computer but would like to up the HDD from 750GB to 1TB, using same manufacturer. It appears that the 1TB model is the same size and is Serial SATA like the original, but would like to confirm before purchasing.
Thanks!

Should work fine, good luck with the upgrade!
Here is a guide if you haven't stumbled across it yet=https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/iMac+Intel+24-Inch+EMC+2134+and+2211+Hard+Drive+Rep lacement/8968

Which 1 TB Seagate Barracuda is best for video editing?

Hi,
I'm about to buy a 1 TB drive for my Mac Pro to increase storage space for video files and not sure which one would suit me best out of the:
Seagate BarracudaNL NL35 Hard drive 1 TB Internal 3.5" SATA300 7200 rpm buffer 32 MB
or
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 Hard drive 1 TB Internal 3.5" SATA300 7200 rpm buffer: 32 MB
Any opinions on which is best or if you think there is a better drive out there in the same price range?
I'm in a bit of a hurry so quick responses would be great.
Thanks

You are in a hurry... so?
Where to get benchmarks and more than just personal ideas and opinions, check out AMUG Reviews along with Barefeats along with AccelerateYourMac along with sites and forums that deal in video. StorageReview has usually done excellent review coverage but has slowed down but they looked at what is going on with Seagate line lately.
http://www.barefeats.com/hard94.html
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/IDE/1TBHDs_MacPro/1TB_hard_drivetests.html#storytop
It isn't just what to buy, but where, and firmware. Samsung, Hitachi (latest model) and I wish WD would get their latest Black series. OWC checks to insure Seagate drives have the latest firmware as they have been problematic (for years now on Macs).
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/hard-drives/

Would this this laptop be any good for Premiere CS6 and AE?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Dell-Inspiron-17r-7720-Laptop-3-4ghz-i7-1TB-8GB-2GB-650m-Win-8-F ULL-HD-B-NEW-/290893870076?pt=UK_Computing_Laptops_EH&hash=item43baa033fc
Or will it be painfully slow?
Of course, I am aware that a laptop can not hope to equal desktop output. But since I am not satisfied with the price-performance ratio of current top end Nvidia cards, I have decided to wait for the release of Maxwell before assembling a new desktop rig.
In the interim, I'm considering getting a cheap laptop (for editing in bed ). This one seems to offer decent specs and good value at £700/ $1075. I would put a 7200rpm Seagate Barracuda in there.
Any opinions, please?

Past Laptop Video Editing PC discussions
-http://forums.adobe.com/message/4717373
-http://forums.adobe.com/message/4578948
-Edit 4k video http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1108124

K8T MS 6702 V 1.0 + Seagate Barracuda SATA II + Windows 7

Hello,
Im new on this forum! Im having serious trouble getting my system set up. I have a K8T Neo MS 6702 V 1.0 mobo and right now im trying to install windows 7 on my new hard drive. the hard drive is a Seagate barracuda 7200 SATA 2. when installing windows 7 I get asked to deliver drivers for the new hard drive. when I put in a CD-rom with drivers or a Floppy, I am able to load the drivers and view the partition on the hard drive. So om thinking windows must be able to install. when I roll through the installation it has to reboot several times. the first reboot works out fine, but the second one doesn't go all that well. is boots up to the splash screen. when I try safe mode I can see it loading windows up to a file called: classpnp.sys. Now I have read that this mobo does not work with SATA 2, but then you should be able to jumper the drive to SATA 1. The thing is , there is no way I can use jumpers on this drive. I will give a list of my system specs now.
AMD Athlon 64 (socket 754)
K8T Neo MS-6702 ATX V1.0
VIA k8T800 chipset
VIA VT8237 chipset
Promise 20378 on board
Seagate barracuda SATA 2 750 Gb
I have tried going into the recovery mode of windows 7 with the installation DVD but when I have it to check out my boot problems it comes back with an error saying that there is no hard drive installed. Im wondering if this has to do with the mobo or the harddrive. I havn't updated the bios because I'm affraid I mess up the bios.
If you guys need any more info ill try and find out!
I hope someone can help me out here.

I don't really know but you can read this and see if it does you any good.
http://www.sevenforums.com/drivers/19163-fasttrak-376-378-windows-7-driver-help.html

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