Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 ST3000DM001 3TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5 inch Internal Hard Drive - Bare Drive $120AC@Newegg

this drive often goes into "semi-sleep" state when not in use and when it is time to get something from it or write something to it, I literally hear the drive starts spinning and there is a good long 4-5 seconds gap each time this happens.

because may be these are 7200rpm? and seagate?


this is a solid drive, but i sort of have a silly problem with it
I have one from an earlier SD that I use as the "data" drive in my recent build that has an Intel SSD for the OS. But this drive often goes into "semi-sleep" state when not in use and when it is time to get something from it or write something to it, I literally hear the drive starts spinning and there is a good long 4-5 seconds gap each time this happens.
once it awakens, the drive performs really fast, though.
It might just be some setting that needs to be done, but I thought I should mention this. I also had to do some special Seagate driver stuff before Win7 could recognize all 3TBs

I got one of the 3TB amazon deals, just never saw the $90 deal in my deal alerts, any links so I can see where things went wrong?

I don't mind that - especially if it helps drive life - being external though - possibly your enclosure electronics might be involved?

I've experienced similar "hangs" on sleeping WD drives waking up from desktop access, though on the LAN as media drives they would always still respond to calls to play movies/TV Shows etc. from an Apple TV, WD Live Streaming box, iPads, EyeTV and others.

It's a setting in all power plans in Windows. If you click to change plan settings for each power plan, under hard disk, you can set the amount of time to power down a drive. Type 'power options' to get to the menu to change power plans.

$90? can you link me this deal, I must have smoked too much and missed it

Yes this drive does respond to even remote calls, and I have it fit internally so no probs there.. its just that the sound actually scares me because it is starkingly similar to a failing HDD I hope it helps for a longer life.



well tried that, I dont like my computer to even sleep because it is ON all day and I need it any time from my work etc. I think this is more of something Seagate has done.. not sure

Man where are the $90 3TB drives that we had around black friday?! I really need more space.

I have 3 of these drives running in a NAS they are solid.

$90? can you link me this deal, I must have smoked too much and missed it

These drives were never 90 bucks. The dumb slow green drives were.
I have to say that i got 2 of these for my girlfriends system that i bough her. I used windows mirrored raid and i am VERY pleased with the performance! VERY FAST! Crazy fast. So fast that i am going to buy 2 for myself and replace the 6 1tb drives that i have in my current build. I am running raid 1+0, but it is very slow in my mind. I am tired of it loosing one drive. Mirrored only i feel is much safer.

These drives were never 90 bucks. The dumb slow green drives were.
I have to say that i got 2 of these for my girlfriends system that i bough her. I used windows mirrored raid and i am VERY pleased with the performance! VERY FAST! Crazy fast. So fast that i am going to buy 2 for myself and replace the 6 1tb drives that i have in my current build. I am running raid 1+0, but it is very slow in my mind. I am tired of it loosing one drive. Mirrored only i feel is much safer.

Anyone know if this drive makes the same chirpy noise as the 2 TB version?