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

Quote from jmsq : I can't find a link to it, but the 3tb Seagate Expansion was $90 and the 3tb Backup Plus was $100 on Amazon right around black friday. Both of those drives are external versions of this drive.

SD search 3TB Seagate external

Quote from wantnano : what's the latest firmware for st3000dm001-1ch166 ? mine says CC24. and there's nothing on the seagate website.. something about CC24 firmware being the latest for oem drives also whats apm?

like daniel said, new firmware is at http://knowledge.seagate.com/arti...Q/223651en

also as he said, apm is advanced power management. If you use a tool like crystaldiskinfo you can disable apm (under function>advanced feature) and the noise/sluggishness stops. The newer firmware basically lowers the value for apm (at least for this particular issue). There were a few blogposts about the time it was fixed in firmware about a specific setting where if you set it lower this would stop.

Read this if you are thinking about using these in a NAS. I would get the WD Red.

http://www.amazon.com/review/RQNP...6&store=pc

Quote from SaneLemming : like daniel said, new firmware is at http://knowledge.seagate.com/arti...Q/223651en also as he said, apm is advanced power management. If you use a tool like crystaldiskinfo you can disable apm (under function>advanced feature) and the noise/sluggishness stops. The newer firmware basically lowers the value for apm (at least for this particular issue). There were a few blogposts about the time it was fixed in firmware about a specific setting where if you set it lower this would stop.

Diff drive the CC24 won't take this firmware, this may brick it. There are two difff part nos. of this drive with the same model #

Quote from sr71 : Diff drive the CC24 won't take this firmware, this may brick it. There are two difff part nos. of this drive with the same model #

Well, if it actually is the chinese drive it shouldn't brick, the firmware update should just say there's no valid disk...but I was under the impression that those drives were shipping with firmware that was essentially the new version that fixed the head parking issue...

Quote from kwik : You sir are wrong -- http://slickdeals.net/f/5546480-3...e-Shipping Read this thead. It was the Seagate 3TB 7200RPM 64mb cache drive. I should know, I started the thread and bought three of the drives.

I stand corrected. Wow, that is insanely cheap! I have seen the green drives many times for 90, but i missed that one.

don't beat yourself up for not getting this drive when it was $90, it's norm price will definitely drop down to that range in a few months.

Here you go: http://slickdeals.net/permadeal/8...t3000dm001

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

Quote from AVB : Here you go: http://slickdeals.net/permadeal/8...t3000dm001

yeah i went back through my deal alerts and found it, i think i was holding out for no tax in ca and it never came so i went with the amazon external deal

would have loved one for $90. i just cancelled my order for a usb 2.0 western digital green external from the other current deal. i think ill hold out for sub $100 for a 7200rpm

Quote from Sorid : I would pay about $20 more for the WD Red 3TB, which was on sale recently for $140. Seems like a better design.

Could you elaborate on that a bit?

Quote from Tripp1269 : Read this if you are thinking about using these in a NAS. I would get the WD Red. http://www.amazon.com/review/RQNP...6&store=pc

Makes a diffrence only in NAS systems with hardware controllers configured with short time outs for enterprise use. You will find such NAS systems recommending Enterprise class drives. Consumer NAS systems use software RAID or with longer timeouts (a few seconds once in a while makes no difference to consumer systems). They typically supplement RAID with their own SMART surface monitoring tools to detect and take action for errors detected rather than let the RAID behave dumbly during reads and writes.

Here is what i found on this drive when i got it during BF:
"I followed your steps and took mine apart. Once the top shell is taken off, there are a couple metal clips along the outside of the metal housing near the ports. These can be spread slightly apart so you can more carefully pull the drive out if needed (just don't bend the ports/circuit board). I took some pics with my phone for a little bit of perspective:

http://i.imgur.com/amCHA.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/fr7k8.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/AJCL5.jpg

My manufacture date is 09/2012. Want to know the best part? I used SeaTools to test the drive beforehand and it all came out fine, after about 12 hours :/. I used the warranty checker (link in the SeaTools app) on seagate.com to check the drives warranty - i believe it was January 2013. This is no surprise (it should be a year) however, the internal drive had a warranty out to 25-Dec-2015 . I should have never bought that squaretrade 2 year warranty .

edit: I can also confirm again that the model is ST3000DM001 and no, the enclosure wasn't soldered to the drive ."

So roll the dice, you may get a better warranty with an 'external drive' .

Also, is there a way to quote a post from another thread?

Quote from Unforgiven : Could you elaborate on that a bit?

While I have 7 Seagate 3TB's, I'd buy the WD Red 3TB's for $20 more apiece for "big storage usage." Better head parking management, lower power usage, lower temperature, 3 year warranty, and supposedly with its design optimized for a NAS, better durability. That's even though the Seagate's are actually faster at most operations than the Red's. But I use HDD's for big media storage and SSD's for speed.

Someone wanting higher speed HDD's won't like the Red's as much.

The AnandTech and Tom's Hardware review describe the Red well:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/615...he-premium

http://www.tomshardware.com/revie...,3248.html

Hope that helps.

Quote from Sorid : While I have 7 Seagate 3TB's, I'd buy the WD Red 3TB's for $20 more apiece for "big storage usage." Better head parking management, lower power usage, lower temperature, 3 year warranty, and supposedly with its design optimized for a NAS, better durability. That's even though the Seagate's are actually faster at most operations than the Red's. But I use HDD's for big media storage and SSD's for speed. Someone wanting higher speed HDD's won't like the Red's as much. The AnandTech and Tom's Hardware review describe the Red well: http://www.anandtech.com/show/615...he-premium http://www.tomshardware.com/revie...,3248.html Hope that helps.

It did, thanks.