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End-of-Life Seagate ST3000DM001 Drives
For my NV+.v2 I've been wrestling between buying a couple of WD Red or Seagate 7200.14 drives, with the dilemma coming down to simple price differential.
It's a good job I didn't pull the trigger on buying the Seagate drives, as, if the following website is anything to go by, the Seagate ST3000DM001 (and presumably 1&2Tb variants) are now 'end of life' products - http://www.ccidistribution.co.uk/hard-d ... s-sata-hdd - even though, confusingly, the site lists this as a 'new' drive.
This may account for the very keen pricing for these drives compared to the WD Red drives here in the UK.
The same website lists new Seagate drives - the Barracuda STBD3000200, for example (alongside the 2Tb alternative); with the assumption that these are direct replacements for the 7200.14 drives. It is interesting to note that the warranty has increased from 1 to 2 years - http://www.ccidistribution.co.uk/hard-d ... 3tb-retail
Unfortunately, the new drive doesn't appear to be on Seagate's website (unless I'm looking with my eyes shut).
The caveat, of course, is that these new Seagate drives are not on the HCL for the NV+.v2, so some might argue that all this is merely an academic discussion - but it's something to take into account in your purchasing decision.
It's a good job I didn't pull the trigger on buying the Seagate drives, as, if the following website is anything to go by, the Seagate ST3000DM001 (and presumably 1&2Tb variants) are now 'end of life' products - http://www.ccidistribution.co.uk/hard-d ... s-sata-hdd - even though, confusingly, the site lists this as a 'new' drive.
This may account for the very keen pricing for these drives compared to the WD Red drives here in the UK.
The same website lists new Seagate drives - the Barracuda STBD3000200, for example (alongside the 2Tb alternative); with the assumption that these are direct replacements for the 7200.14 drives. It is interesting to note that the warranty has increased from 1 to 2 years - http://www.ccidistribution.co.uk/hard-d ... 3tb-retail
Unfortunately, the new drive doesn't appear to be on Seagate's website (unless I'm looking with my eyes shut).
The caveat, of course, is that these new Seagate drives are not on the HCL for the NV+.v2, so some might argue that all this is merely an academic discussion - but it's something to take into account in your purchasing decision.
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- Interesting. The ST3000DM001 is a fairly recent drive, but they do change rather frequently. However, it is still shown on the Seagate Barracuda Spec sheet, which would not be the case for a discontinued drive. It does not mean that this distributor is not discontinuing the drive, however.
Please note on the spec sheet, the ST3000DM001 is shown as drive only (this is an OEM drive) and comes packaged only in the anti-static bag. The STBD3000100 is shown as kit, which means it is a boxed retail drive. These used to come with SATA cable, Molex to SATA power conversion plug, screws plastic SeaShell protective case. Today I think they only include the screws and protective case.
http://www.seagate.com/internal-hard-drives/desktop-hard-drives/barracuda/specs/ - Seagate's web site also shows the ST3000DM001 on the their product finder (it came up first). Clicking on "buy now" brings up lot of sites which all have it in stock.
Not sure about the future of course, but it doesn't seem to be a problem to get them.
The STBD3000100 is a kit, it also has a 32 MB cache (as opposed to 64). and has a 3 GB SATA interface, not 6. So I think it is an older product, not a newer one. (Alternatlively, Seagate's web site has wrong info). - I spoke to Seagate pre-sales today on the phone, and the ST3000DM001 is not an end-of-life product - so where CCI Distribution got that from, who knows.
As for STBD3000200; Seagate confirmed that model is a retail version of the above (with extra cabling/connections).
Nonetheless, the guy I spoke to insisted that since the beginning of 2012, the one year warranty no longer applies. Due to customer complaints the standard warranty for all Seagate drives purchased since the beginning of 2012 is 2 years.
On the CC4H firmware issue, the Seagate sales guy assured me that merely because a purchased ST3000DM001/ST2000DM001 didn't have the specified CC4H firmware it doesn't necessarily mean that it will 'chirp'. If it does, then obviously the CC4H firmware will fix it.
However....
Just when I had made up my mind to buy this drive, a further email exchange with one potential reseller solicited this response: "...the ST3000DM001 do indeed appear to be end of life. This simply means that they won't be making any more on that code, but existing stock will remain in distribution for some time, and we can currently get hold of large quantities of this drive". - I just bought a pair of these from Expansys, after a drive failure left me up the creek. But the short notice and needing replacements immediately left me with a choice of getting another pair of 2tb, or making the leap to 3tb before I had planned on it.
I flashed the firmware on straight away, as I didn't want to be messing about later on down the line.
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