Seagate Barracuda 500 GB 7200RPM SATA NCQ 16 MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Desktop Hard Drive ST3500641AS-RK-Retail Kit by Seagate
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Digital camera reviews of Seagate Barracuda 500 GB 7200RPM SATA NCQ 16 MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Desktop Hard Drive ST3500641AS-RK-Retail Kit
Digital camera Review: 2 words...5-year Warranty!
Summary: 5 Stars
Yes, some people are going to have troubles with hard drives. No matter WHAT brand you buy, there's going to be some bad/loud/finicky drives here and there. Yes, I've had at least one of these drives die, but I've bought LOTS of hard drives from various manufacturers and have had some bad luck with ALL of them.
However, Seagate is the only one who gives a 5-year warranty on all of their drives, retail or bare OEM. Western Digital only recently started offering up to 3-year warranties (on Retail packages), which is the best warranty length of any of the other drive manufacturers. The only complaint I'd have in this aspect is that Seagate is a bit slower to RMA bad drives than they used to be.
Just a tip...DON'T put 400GB+ hard drives into poorly-ventilated external USB/Firewire enclosures (ones w/ internal fans recommended). Oh...and REGULARLY BACK UP IMPORTANT DATA!
Anyway, don't listen to the anti-Seagate people...just because they haven't had another brand die on them (yet) is just luck of the draw.
Digital camera Review: 5 stars but be careful that you get what you paid for
Summary: 5 Stars
Bought four of these to use in a RAID. All four of the boxes had PN: 98D648 - 550 on the box. When I installed one of the drives it was smaller than the others. PN on smaller drive's label was 98J146 - 308 and it was called a Barracuda 7200.10. Larger drives were Barracuda 7200.11 9BX154 - 303 on the drive label. Returned it and will check the replacement when it arrives.
7/3/08 Received replacement drive and it was Barracuda 7200.11 9BX154 - 303.
Digital camera Review: A little more effort than expected, but works.
Summary: 4 Stars
I installed the Seagate 500Gb SATA using Windows XP Pro x64. Installing the hardware was easy enough as all cables were included. The XP installer didn't recognize the drive, so I added an older 80Gb ATA drive and installed XP on that. From there, I ran the Seagate installer disc, and voila, the Seagate drive showed up. I'm still putting my new system through its paces, so we'll see how it fares as I add software.Digital camera Review: AVOID!!!
Summary: 1 Stars
I purchased this item from Frys about a year ago because I had a lot of data I was trying to store. While moving files to the drive it kept encountering problems and would stall after some time. Later when I would attempt to move files OFF the drive, I found out that some of the files were now unreadable...and could not be deleted either.
I scanned the drive, found bad sectors and thought that fixed it, but no, the problems persisted. Scanning again found more bad sectors. Once a drive starts having issues, especially right out of the box, more are on the way.
This also happened with 2 other 300GB hard drives that my partner had (purchased separately, months earlier), BOTH of them also had bad sectors and had to be returned.
Fortunately, and the reason for the one star, Frys refunded my money easily. And to their credit Seagate would have sent me another drive, but it would have been refurbished. Unfortunately, for the 300GB drives, they were unused for several months and it was only after that time that the problems were discovered. By then it was too late to get a full refund. Seagate did get us some refurbished ones at least.
I too have heard good things about these drives, Frys sells them in bulk, but my experience, and that of others tells another story. Go with Western Digital instead, Ive never had any problems with them.
Digital camera Review: Best SATA I have found
Summary: 5 Stars
This Seagate ST3500641AS-RK Barracuda 7200.9 500GB SATA was a complete surprise to me. As expected and is the case with most WD and Seagate internal HDD's, installation was exceptionally easy. The real surprise was the included software. In my case, I had an old and small HDD that was beginning to make noise. Rather than wait until it crashed, I decided to upgrade the size and speed of this boot disk drive. I thought I was going to have to either A) re-install Window and installed software and drivers and copy the files from my old drive (a major headache) or B) use cloning software (I purchased one for this purpose). However, upon installing the Seagate HDD as my second drive, the included software AUTOMATICALLY prompted me to specify if this was to be A) a new boot drive, B) a mirror of the existing drive or C) simply a second HDD for additional storage. I selected the mirror. In no time, the system was copied and operational. THANK YOU SEAGATE
I have only had the device for a few weeks, so I cannot comment on its reliability as this time.