Try disabling "put HD to sleep when possible". My 1.5TB samsung HD will freeze up the finder if I try to access it after it has slept. It is being used for time machine so it doesn't do anything for 1 hour, and then it will freeze the machine since time machine gets stuck. The problem is with OSX since it sleeps and wakes up fine under windows.
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Issue with Seagate 1.5TB?
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Wow, old thread, but over on the Seagate forums it is still very alive. I became very interested in this issue when I bought 2 Seagate 1.5T's to run. They do have the latest firmware however and have been running fine for 2 weeks now. Fingers crossed. Yes I have "put hard drives to sleep when possible" unchecked on mine. I only get a delay when waking from sleep, otherwise they are just fine. I didn't have to "zero" the drives. I only did a format on them in HFS+ Journaled.
I too, was not going to waste two decades zeroing this drive out. Got mine 3 days ago, and still running WELL.
I've got a 120GB partition at the top as my new boot vol. and I get a 64 on XBench disk test! Much better than the 33 I got with my stock 80GB. My new BrontoRaptor...
I've got a 120GB partition at the top as my new boot vol. and I get a 64 on XBench disk test! Much better than the 33 I got with my stock 80GB. My new BrontoRaptor...
I've never had any of these issues with my Seagate 1.5 TB drives, and I have 4 of them. The only problem I had was with the first one I bought on the first day it was available on NewEgg. It had the firmware issue, which the RMA'd replacement fixed.
I have had mine 3 months and no problems, knock on wood. I have noticed they are loader spinning up then I thought, when booted to windows they are not being used and after a while they spin down and the computer is noticably quiter. The real test I think on these is the 9-14 month point. I haven't regretted getting them.. yet.
Thanks for the feedback. I hope I can instead find 2TB Seagate or Black drives instead.
I decided against the Seagate & went for a Western Digital in the end...
Re my previous posts in this thread (numbers 73, 84, 120, 140 & 143) - I know it's been 11 months since I last posted about this topic in this (or any other) thread, but 7 months ago I finally made a decision as to what to buy, and things have been running happily ever since, so I thought I'd update everyone who's interested.
Basically I was torn between buying the tried & tested Samsung Spin Point F1 1TB drive, and the Seagate that's the subject of this thread. I wanted the largest capacity drive available, but not if it was unreliable.
Anyway, I just left things as they were for a while, and when I then returned to my research a few months later, there were several 1.5TB (& 2TB) drives available from other manufacturers. I'd always had very good experiences with Western Digital in the past, so eventually, after a huge amount of indecision, I decided to go for this drive. I bought it at the beginning of May this year, from it247.com, who at the time charged me £113.80 (including VAT, & delivery was free). 7 months later and it now only costs £79.95 including VAT.
First of all, I disconnected my existing 250GB SATA drive & connected the new drive, and then formatted it using Disk Utility as a single volume in Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format. The "Get Info" window states the formatted capacity is 1.36TB.
It took a great deal of effort over several days, but I was able to use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone all the data from my 80GB IDE boot drive, my 120GB IDE drive, and then finally my 250GB SATA drive to the new drive.
As I only have one IDE -> SATA adapter, to be able to copy from the 250GB drive to the new drive, I had to transfer the data a few sections at a time, via the 120GB drive, as I couldn't have both the 250GB drive and the new drive attached at the same time.
I've currently 411GB used, 985GB free, and, as I had hoped, the overall effect of swapping the old 3 drives for the single replacement is less noise, which is mainly down to the "wind-tunnel" fans taking things easier than before. Presumably the Mac is also using less power & generating less heat than before as well.
The Mac doesn't seem any faster as such, but then this is to be expected. Even though my boot drive is now much faster than the one it replaced, and it's now connected to the ATA-100 bus as opposed to the ATA-66 bus, the IDE -> SATA adapter is still a bottleneck, and given that I have the maximum 2GB of RAM installed, the G4 processors will be what slows things down the most. I'm running 10.4.11 and have no plans to move to Leopard as I'm sure things would be slower still. As it's a PowerPC Mac, Snow Leopard isn't an option unfortunately.
The biggest advantage for me though is the absolute joy of having everything on a single volume, which means when I want to move a file or folder, I just have to drag it. Before, if the destination was on a different drive to the source (which happened all the time) dragging would copy not move, so I'd then have to delete the original, then empty the Trash. Not a great hardship you'd think, but I was forever doing it, and it drove me round the bend!
Anyway, as I said, I've been very happy with my new drive since I installed it over 6 months ago. I use the Mac every day, and as far as it's concerned, it seems to have no idea that it's had a heart transplant! Everything, even down to aliases in the Dock, worked flawlessly from the very first boot-up. I'd recommend the Western Digital Caviar Green drives, and Carbon Copy Cloner, without hesitation.
Re my previous posts in this thread (numbers 73, 84, 120, 140 & 143) - I know it's been 11 months since I last posted about this topic in this (or any other) thread, but 7 months ago I finally made a decision as to what to buy, and things have been running happily ever since, so I thought I'd update everyone who's interested.
Basically I was torn between buying the tried & tested Samsung Spin Point F1 1TB drive, and the Seagate that's the subject of this thread. I wanted the largest capacity drive available, but not if it was unreliable.
Anyway, I just left things as they were for a while, and when I then returned to my research a few months later, there were several 1.5TB (& 2TB) drives available from other manufacturers. I'd always had very good experiences with Western Digital in the past, so eventually, after a huge amount of indecision, I decided to go for this drive. I bought it at the beginning of May this year, from it247.com, who at the time charged me £113.80 (including VAT, & delivery was free). 7 months later and it now only costs £79.95 including VAT.
First of all, I disconnected my existing 250GB SATA drive & connected the new drive, and then formatted it using Disk Utility as a single volume in Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format. The "Get Info" window states the formatted capacity is 1.36TB.
It took a great deal of effort over several days, but I was able to use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone all the data from my 80GB IDE boot drive, my 120GB IDE drive, and then finally my 250GB SATA drive to the new drive.
As I only have one IDE -> SATA adapter, to be able to copy from the 250GB drive to the new drive, I had to transfer the data a few sections at a time, via the 120GB drive, as I couldn't have both the 250GB drive and the new drive attached at the same time.
I've currently 411GB used, 985GB free, and, as I had hoped, the overall effect of swapping the old 3 drives for the single replacement is less noise, which is mainly down to the "wind-tunnel" fans taking things easier than before. Presumably the Mac is also using less power & generating less heat than before as well.
The Mac doesn't seem any faster as such, but then this is to be expected. Even though my boot drive is now much faster than the one it replaced, and it's now connected to the ATA-100 bus as opposed to the ATA-66 bus, the IDE -> SATA adapter is still a bottleneck, and given that I have the maximum 2GB of RAM installed, the G4 processors will be what slows things down the most. I'm running 10.4.11 and have no plans to move to Leopard as I'm sure things would be slower still. As it's a PowerPC Mac, Snow Leopard isn't an option unfortunately.
The biggest advantage for me though is the absolute joy of having everything on a single volume, which means when I want to move a file or folder, I just have to drag it. Before, if the destination was on a different drive to the source (which happened all the time) dragging would copy not move, so I'd then have to delete the original, then empty the Trash. Not a great hardship you'd think, but I was forever doing it, and it drove me round the bend!
Anyway, as I said, I've been very happy with my new drive since I installed it over 6 months ago. I use the Mac every day, and as far as it's concerned, it seems to have no idea that it's had a heart transplant! Everything, even down to aliases in the Dock, worked flawlessly from the very first boot-up. I'd recommend the Western Digital Caviar Green drives, and Carbon Copy Cloner, without hesitation.