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Simply add this SATA hard drive to your computer and enjoy a whopping 500GB of storage space for all your movies, music, photos, documents and more.
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on December 16, 2009
Posted by: TomInOregon
from Oregon
This seemed to be a good value in capacity and performance. I purchased it late 2008 and it worked well for nearly a year. One day after a reboot, the drive would spin up but the BIOS wouldn't recognize the drive. I understand this to be a firmware bug that affects many Seagate drives manufactured during a period of time. Like others, I too had a box labeled as ST3500641AS but with a ST3500320AS label on the drive.
Some affected drives are likely still out there (12/2009) in both retail boxes and systems. Seagate honored their generous warranty with my drive. However, unless you are certain you can identify that the Seagate drive is without the firmware bug, why take chances with losing your important data?
What's great about it: Capacity and Performance, while it works
What's not so great: Drive is a brick apparently due to firmware bug
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
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