Seagate Barracuda DM001

[GeneralJock]

I suspect my current data HDD is playing up (see other post on gremlins) as I am getting the "click of death" and my system is hanging for a few seconds as it tries to read.
Now as it happens, I was in a computer hardware store yesterday and on special offer was a new 2TB Barracuda for £50 still sealed in packaging so I thought that'll do the job.
On closer inspection, I have realised I'm an *****. Why? Because it's a DM001 drive manufactured in 2012. I should have noticed this, and frankly can't believe I didn't, but it does mean that this drive will probably share the same firmware bug as the drive I currently have. I can try asking for a replacement or swap but of course the drive isn't faulty so I would be surprised if he agrees as it's clearly stock he's trying to shift.
Unsure if I should just use the drive and see how it goes (I back everything up all the time anyway) or just write the loss of and buy a more reliable drive like the WD blue drives with their 5 year warranty which everyone seems to rave about. Any thoughts.

 

[Cycloid Torus]

Some stores have a policy about return/exchange, so you might ask. I got 2 years out of my last Barracuda.

The 2TB is not as bad as the 3TB, but it does fail too often (https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/391vgf/anyone_with_seagate_barracuda_2tb_st2000dm001/)

Backup regularly. I use two cloud backups every day as a result of my earlier issue with Seagates.

 

[GeneralJock]

I think he'll probably exchange it, but for another drive and the price won't be so good. To be fair, I've got 5 years out of the 1TB Barracuda I currently have, before it started all this clicking lark.
Nice to know the 2TB drives are not quite as bad (one less platter I think). Given my current drive is about to die, I think I'll use it anyway, and just wait for a good deal on on a WD Blue. I currently back up data to a portable USB3.0 drive (also a Seagate) and also backup all my photos to google drive and a separate WD USB portable.
Back in my tech days I had a 3-drive 500GB RAID array - remember them? I though it was the bollocks.
Now I think I'm going to pay for some serious on-line storage just back up to that weekly going forward.
Thanks for the comments.

 

[Cycloid Torus]

Take a look at https://www.idrive.com/pricing which has 5GB free for personal

 

[MaikuTech]

I think he'll probably exchange it, but for another drive and the price won't be so good. To be fair, I've got 5 years out of the 1TB Barracuda I currently have, before it started all this clicking lark.
Nice to know the 2TB drives are not quite as bad (one less platter I think). Given my current drive is about to die.

I have much more better idea stick your current broken seagate drive into the trash can.
Make sure you backup whatever files you want.

Then you can go ahead and finish savin more bucks for this here:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004CSIG1G/?tag=httpwwwtechsp-20