This is a duel review for two products that I bought with the idea that they would be used together and they did this well. The products are the Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5 Terabyte (1.5TB) SATA/300 7200RPM 32MB Hard Drive and the SATA to PATA/IDE Hard Drive Interface Adapter. I hope this will help somebody who has the same problem that I had. I have a Dell Precision WorkStation 350 computer that had a 40GB IDE hard drive. I wanted to upgrade to a larger drive and settled on the 1.5 TB Seagate Barracuda 7200.11, which is SATA II. My old computer does not have a SATA connection so I bought the PATA to SATA adapter with the idea that I would plug the adapter into the hard drive and attach it to my external IDE hard drive case (cage) then plug it into the USB port. I had to leave the Seagate drive outside the case and only attach the electrical connections since the adapter is too large to fit into the cage with the hard drive, as expected. I then used the windows Computer Manager (right click My Computer to open then click disk mangement under storage) to initialize the drive and format it. After this, the computer recognized the drive when I opened My Computer. I used the Seagate Disk Wizard to clone my old IDE hard drive onto the new SATA II drive. This worked great. I then checked the Seagate drive and all my data, including the operating system (XP Service Pack 3), was on the Seagate. So far so good. I then turned off the computer and swapped hard drives. That is I removed the old IDE drive completely and replaced it with the Seagate SATA II and adapter. I then reassembled my computer, crossed my fingers and turned it on. To my suprise and delight, the computer came on and the operating system started up and ran flawlessly with the Seagate SATA II drive running Windows XP Sevice pack 3 and the computer recognized the drive as having 1.5 TB. After several hours, I shut down the computer and tried to restart it and this is where things went bad. The BIOS started then I got the error message "\windows\system32\config\system file missing or corrupt". I could get no further than this error message no mater what I tried. I finally decided to start over, put the drives back into the original positions and reclone the old drive back onto the new drive. I swapped the drives after the procedure and again the computer worked perfectly with the cloned data on the Seagate that was now running in my old computer. Then I shut the computer off and tried to restart it and got the same error message "\windows\system32\config\system file missing or corrupt" again.
The fix. After many hours of research and trying to fix the problem it came down to one simple thing. The old computer of course had an old BIOS, which limited the hard drive capacity to 137GB so even though the old BIOS recognized the SATA II hard drive, it could not use it after a shut down. My old BIOS was version AO1 and after an up grade to version AO2, the computer recognized the new Seagate SATA II drive perfectly, even after many shut down/restart cycles.
Even though I had some problems with the installation (not the fault of either product), I give both products top ratings since they both work well together. The only draw backs are that the PATA to SATA adapter is somewhat bulky and the connection to the drive is not very tight although it is an adequate fit. I have had no problems with the Seagate Drive. It is fast, quiet and easy to install.
Add to your order
-
Coverage for accidental damage including drops, spills, and broken parts, as well as breakdowns (plans vary) -
24/7 support when you need it. -
Quick, easy, and frustration-free claims.
Cover this product:
3-Year Data Recovery Plan $14.99
Select a plan
Add to your order
- Coverage for accidental damage including drops, spills, and broken parts, as well as breakdowns (plans vary)
- 24/7 support when you need it.
- Quick, easy, and frustration-free claims.
Cover this product:
Select a plan
Enjoy fast, free delivery, exclusive deals, and award-winning movies & TV shows with Prime
Try Prime
and start saving today with fast, free delivery
There is a newer model of this item:
Seagate 1.5 TB DesktopSATA 6 Gb/s NCQ 64MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Bare Drive ST1500DM003
$83.00
(35)
Only 5 left in stock - order soon.
$83.00
(35)
Only 5 left in stock - order soon.
Buy it with
$120.60
Get it as soon as Monday, May 6
In Stock
Total price:
To see our price, add these items to your cart.
Choose items to buy together.
Customers who viewed this item also viewed
Page 1 of 1 Start overPage 1 of 1
Compare with similar items
This Item  Seagate Barracuda 7200 1.5 TB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s 32MB Cache 3.5 Inch Internal Hard Drive ST31500341AS-Bare Drive |  |  |  |  |  | |
| Price | $120.60 | -41% $40.00 New Price: $67.50 | -21% $59.99 Typical: $76.00 | $62.99 | $72.00 | -16% $84.50 List: $101.17 |
| Delivery | Get it as soon as Monday, May 6 | Get it May 6 - 9 | — | — | Get it May 10 - 13 | Get it as soon as Monday, May 6 |
| Customer Ratings | ||||||
| Storage Capacity | ||||||
| Noise level | ||||||
| Easy to install | ||||||
| For gaming | ||||||
| Sold By | ISellAll | Computer Supply | Plascencia Sales | HardDriveGeeks (SN Recorded) | CorteseInc | HardDriveGeeks (SN Recorded) |
| storage capacity | 1.5 TB | 2 TB | 2000 GB | 2000 GB | 320 GB | 2000 GB |
| hardware interface | sata 3 0 gb | sata 6 0 gb | sata 6 0 gb | sata 6 0 gb | sata 6 0 gb | sata 6 0 gb |
| compatible devices | Desktop, Camera | Desktop | Desktop | Desktop | Ordinateur | Desktop |
| form factor | 3.5-inch | 3.5-inch | 3.5-inch | 3.5-inch | 3.5-inch | 2.5-inch |
Videos
Page 1 of 1Start OverPage 1 of 1
Videos for this product
1:43
Click to play video
Seagate Barracuda Internal Hard Drives
Merchant Video
Reviews with images
Frightening mess these drives are
Update Review on September 22, 2009 **** 4 Stars===================================================At the beginning of this year, I wrote a scathing review of this product after numerous problems. To summarize, Seagate had a total mess on their hands with 3 different hardware revisions and over a dozen firmwares out in the span of a couple months. There were massive problems, and Seagate tech support was completely overwhelmed. I had problems of drives freezing, terrible noises on start up, reallocated sectors, and the "click of death".Fast forward. I have had the latest hardware revision -302 with firmware CC1H on 3 drives for about 8 months. These have had NO problems. I just purchased my 4th of these drives from Amazon a couple days ago, and I can confirm they are still -302 hardware and CC1H firmware. This latest one was very well packed by Amazon in a "manufacturer-type" drive box. No issues with the current packaging (although some in the past from Amazon were questionable). A full surface scan came up with no errors. I have added a customer image of my oldest drive. It is important to realize that the massive complaints of problems and failures could be with the earlier hardware revisions and firmware.I can't give this product 5 stars due to the past problems, and because there are no guarantees the ones I have won't fail before the warranty is up. (The new 2TB green drives are now having massive failures/problems.) Of the 3 I have, only 1 has "normal" hours on it, as the other 2 were backup only. I have had other drives fail in the past couple years including a WDC Raptor, a WDC laptop drive, and a Deskstar, so I believe this last version is no worse than others out there.One thing to recognize with modern drives is that they are no way as reliable as their MTBF reliability specs indicate. Hard drives are dirt cheap these days and drive manufacturers are hurting. Solid state drives will only hurt them more. I now look at drives as disposable, and keep several backups. This drive finally looks stable and has a very low cost per GB along with enough capacity to last you several more years.Previous Review====================================================================There is a fair amount of misinformation in various reviews. First, these are 4-platter drives. Next, they are part of the Seagate 7200.11 series. Both this drive and the 1TB have serious issues. Seagate support is completely overwhelmed. If you do not know about these, just surf forums dot seagate dot com for literally hundreds of pages of problems.I had purchased two of these after reading that firmware bugs had been finally worked out with SD1A. To give you an idea, Seagate has gone though something like SD13, SD14, SD15, SD17, SD19, SD35, SD37, and SD1A. The only problem is that while the model number of this product is ST31500341AS, the part number is 9JU138-XXX, and SD1A only works on 9JU138-300 drives. I received one 9JU138-301 and one 9JU138-302 which are apparently, incompatible, different hardware revisions. These latter drives use firmware revisions including CC1F, CC1G, CC1H, and CC1J where people are experiencing similar and different problems. There is such a mess of problems with these drives that Seagate support can't even keep up.To make a long story short, one of my drives makes a terrible buzzing sound on power-up which has been reported by others. Otherwise, it worked seemingly OK for a week or so. Now, I get random read/write stalls, and I get the now-famous "click of death" where the drive makes loud clicking sounds and crashes the system. Drive SMART reports no errors, but that's B.S. I bought these for backup drives, yet I cannot trust them, so what's the point? I am waiting for Seagate to respond to my inquiries (email and support form) before I return them.Based on the stories I had read in late December, I thought these drives were out-of-the-woods, so to speak, but they are not.Update: Still no response from Seagate on my 2 inquiries. Now the drive is reporting (bad) reallocated sectors. Time for a different brand. Scary amount of problems with less than 100 hours on the drive.Update: Another week and no response from Seagate. There were some rumors on their forums that their email server crashed, and that's why they weren't responding. Hello? They're a drive company. Don't they have a backup? Maybe the server used these new Seagate drives ;) FWIW, Seagate SD1A is not "out of the woods". There is now SD1B. Seagate claims that there is no need to update CC or LC firmware, but I and the forums say otherwise. There is no upgraded firmware *available* if you have a -301 or -302 drive. They are still fixing the -300 drives.Update: Finally got a response from Seagate after 3 weeks! Seems what they do is not really assist you but add your email to a mailing list which directs you to their support website for updates. My CC1H is behaving OK, but not my CC1G. According to Seagate, the CC1G is fine, but MANY people say otherwise, and why is there a CC1J?Final thoughts: Seagate's last quarterly results lost $1.02 per share. With a share price of around $4, I seriously worry if they will be around long enough to honor their warranty. Some system builders are reporting failures in the 20-30%!
