Seagate SUCKS!!

Before you damn Seagate, look around at what others do, too. From all the items I've read, in the real world the average data transfer rate to / from a hard drive is about 60 to 80 MB/s. Everyone agrees the maximum speed is 'way beyond actual performance over an extended copy operation.

Some tests I saw found that, if you copy large amounts of data from one disk to another, the average data transfer rate ranges from 30 MB/s for external HDD's on a USB2 port up to perhaps 80 MB/s for a drive on a Firewire 800 (IEEE 1394b) connection. Typical value for internal HDD on EIDE or SATA (I or II) is around 60 MB/s.

The root problem is makers quote maximum rates from design parameters because they all look impressive. Don't get sucked in that way - read reviews with actual performance tests.

It seems to be on par with the 8mb cache version. Cache usually doesn't make much difference anyhow.

exactly, AFTER you buy something is not the time to do the research. you do the research FIRST

I luv the checking how fast the price drops once I buy it...

I am sorry may be I didnt make it clear
i cant post a pic here so i will just post the link
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There is noway a harddisk can stay at the same transfer speed for the first 70% of its space. Maximum speed of 5x MB/s is even more ridiculous. And this does not just happen to the harddisk i bought from newegg, it also happen to some other country.
i really want to know what the hell is going on

Does your motherboard support SATA 3.0Gb/s or is it only 1.5Gb/s? If it is 3.0Gb/s, did you remove the jumper from the back of the hard drive that restricts it to 1.5Gs/s? Also, you said in your original post that it is a 250GB drive, but the screen shots you posted are for a 320GB model. Which is it?

ok, not sure what your complaining about but it is probably the jumper.

Also are you sure it's the 7200.10 becuase i didn't think they made the 7200.10 in 250GB capacity i thought the 250Gb ones were the 7200.9 version.

Also my 7200.10's are very fast. I currently have 9 seagate drives running and not a single issue with them, while my wd/maxtor drives (raptor excluded) are all either busted or to slow.

To the OP.

If you do have a 320gb drive there is something wrong with your setup.

Looking at the Hd tune pics you posted it looks like the drive is being bottlenecked by something. It should start out at around 80+ MB/s and then curve down towards the 40 MB/s towards the end of the test. Your pics don't look normal and I would suggest checking your BIOS, Driver settings etc.

The shape of your results graph should look more like this



(taken from a google image search and is not from a 7200.10)

The reason why i am blaming on Seagate is I have another 7200.10 on my computer which i bought 6 months ago is running completely normal.

My motherboard is AB9Pro and I connected both 7200.10 to the ICH8R chips so it fully supports SATAII. My hard drive is the on Pic 3 on my last post.
Plus I am not the only person having this problem, i have checked some forum over the pacific ocean and some people in asia are having the same issues as well, as you can see in the first two pic in my last post. they are from hongkong.

sorry if i offended anybody. Normally i wont put such a subjective topic but this time i am really ticked off as i am sure this is not my problem. and these speed-limited hdd are probably distributed all around the world.

Thank you for your help

This is the first 7200.10 i got, a lil bit slower than normal but at least the graph looks fine
pic 4

It is on the same computer on the same SATA controller as the one having problem, so it is unlikely i have set something wrong

Well spotted. That would explain the problem, a PATA drive on an a IDE controller thats limited to 66MB/s. (ATA66)

Your last image... Pic4

How does that relate to this thread exactly ?

Never had a problem with the Customer Service
I can say i have 10 320 GB Seagate Barracuda HDD's
I have had to Send 60% of them back on warranty
Got 2 going back for a 2nd time.
i still have 2 years left on my Warranties.
I have 2 WDC and 4 WDRaptors, Bought before the seagates.
I have not had one issue with them.
Draw your own conclusion.

Oh and P.S. a 160 GB came with my dell laptop, it has been failing for a year, also a seagate.

SEAGATE SUCKS. I tell you what though guys! Seagate does suck, and i tell you why. Firstly generally you would buy a Seagate HDD for reliablity and stability based on the assumption of a great warrentied product right?

Ok well heres the thing, lets firstly take a look at the Seagate Free Agent Go's, they are advertised as having a 5 year warrenty from my understanding anybody actually queried that warrenty? well here it is-it is not a total of 5 years it is in actual fact 3 years on the drive and 2 years on the casing therefore they advertisement is thus 2 years + 3 years = 5 years! 5 YEARS RIGHT! BS!

Another thing ever seen the policies you need to take in order to send a drive in for there warrenty? Trust me dont even go there! It is the biggest Process of anything i have seen in my life! Alos if you miss diagnose with there Seagate warrenty software they will charge you for the transport of the drive! WOW Talk abour customer support!

One other thing the new Seagate freeagent GO'S, anybody taken note on the advertised warrenty? Yip it is now 2 years and not there original "5Years" FUNNY RIGHT!

Im sorry guys but i used to big a huge Seagate fan, and have nothing but promoted and sold there product! Truth is they are nowhere near as good as they used to be, and as you can see they no it for themselves by lowering all there warrentys on there drives!

I am an IT Manager and have had more returns on Seagate drives then any other even SAMSUNG has become more reliable in there drives!

SO HERE IT IS, IT DOES NOT MATTER ANY LONGER WHICH DRIVE YOU BUY THERE IS NONE OTHER GREATER THEN THE NEXT! '

And maybe stay away from seagate this year, until they sort out there highly unreliable drives!

Im sorry if im hating Seagate but you guys neeed to know this, since the beginning of this year they have become extremly unreliable drives!

Let me know your thoughts.

Kindest Regards Rob."