Posted 12/02/2008 at 10:05:25am

This "Problem" has been going on for a very long time. It is not just a 1.5 TB problem. I have had problems with seagate drives since 750 GB over 3 years ago. In raid they break the raid all the time. The systems slow down to a crawl to the point that the servers crash. This is not a single bad drive issue as I have replaced all of the drives and still have problems. You can also forget about using 1 TB drives they performed even worse. Now I know they never fixed the problem even in the 1.5 Tb size.

They do not work realiably in raid or enclosed in a usb case. They also tend to just fail period over time. I have switched to wd and have had no issues. These seagate drives even have issues with adaptec controllers. Adaptec say those drives need to be upgraded to a new firmware and give numbers, but when you contact seagate they say there are no firmware upgrades. Its just every disappointing. So I switched to wd and have much more reliable systems.

Seaget does advertise these drives capable of doing raid but they fail. All they do is send me a refurb drive in place. Which I never use in raid now.