Seagate barracuda 3tb hard drive Failed 

The failure rate on many Seagate drives is simply abominable, from 9.5% on certain 1.5TB drives to 23.5% on the old 7200.11 series, to a whopping 43.1% on the Seagate 7200.14 drive family of 3TB products. ... Many of Seagate's problems, however, appear to be in the 1.5TB to 3TB range. I have had the 3tb fail on me twice. DONT BUY SEAGATE BARRACUDA

I totally agree! I bought Seagate for decades and their drives just suck now. the kicker was when a 8TB started clicking like all the others I have it finally stop showing up on the system. Seagate sent me a DOA refurbished drive. I sent it back with a letter and they never replied. the hell with them, I have sold off the Seagates I have and now give my business to WD.

One up the sleeve customs - i won't buy Seagate Hard Drives any more. They don't stand behind their products at all. I have twice gone to them for warranty replacement only to have them say sorry were not covering that drive. I buy Western Digital or Samsung drives now. To hell with Seagate.

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I opened mine up out of curiosity (it had issues for at least a year and finally died last autumn). Had 3 rings on both the inner and outer edges of the platter. Very interesting.

All hard drives and SSD's are meant to eventually fail as they only have a limited life. In my personal opinion, a good mechanical HDD should last 7 years maybe longer dependant on size, manufacturing etc. They can last longer than that of course but you can't expect them not to fail especially if you're continuously writing and reading them.

No wonder I couldn't get mine open! I didn't count on that covered screw! Thanks!

Definitely a head failure or the drive had become incorrectly magnetized. I have a barracuda 3000 and it died the same way last week destroying my raid array in my server :-( I would definitely consider HGST or Western Digital instead to replace your drives if I were you. Very few of those brand have failed me but I have lost a ton of Seagate drives in the past. I got like four of the cuda 3000s in March thinking Seagate probably improved by now but was mistaken they still fail.

I had this problem while my laptop was still running. I'm not a fan of cloud storage like onedrive as it just felt so intrusive. Windows hung on me and now I don't have a HDD. Still have my SSD backup, but that only runs Linux. Already behind on schoolwork, now I'm going to be even more behind. Thanks, Seagate -_-

These drives are a disaster waiting to happen. The ST2000DM001 (2TB) and ST3000DM001 (3TB) are very unreliable drives due to countless problems with the heads, and even firmware. I had a ST2000DM001 from 2014 and it didn't last 5 years, I even have a video of that drive doing something similar to yours. These drives all fail the same way! While my IBM Deskstar DTLA-307015 15GB drive from August 2000 is still working!

Exactly my problem

Which another Hard drive equivalent to Seagate Barracuda 300GB is equivalent or better? Or can we replace it with a faster 1TB SD drive ??

Was this the 5400 or 7200 rpm version? 7200 may be more likely to fail. I may go with western digital and I only need 5400 rpm.

How long did the other working drive last after opening it? I want to know before I attempt to open mine

YEP! 2016..... Still worth replying too 😁

my hdd won't start reading with the lid open. the head is just scratching the platter and not moving at all

I have the same problem, any work around to recover the data?

The sound of seagate. No warning. Works, then turn your pc off, then restart, and clicking. Previous Diskinfo showed no warnings.

Mine doesn't work either. It was working in a external case but suddenly one day it dont go ON. Have anybody the same problem and solved it? Don't know if there is only a power problem or complete damage.

Is this common, or? Had my 2TB for 4 and a half years, so I am just constantly worried about it deciding to stop working.