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Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 500GB Hard Drive
Where performance and reliability unite. The
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 perpendicular disc
drive provides pure digital
storage for all your ATA application needs.
With up to 500GB of pure digital storage in a single drive,
the Barracuda 7200.10 is the largest, most reliable disc
drive around. New perpendicular recording technology
supports vertically stored data bits, enabling increased
areal density—and dependability—for workstations and
performance PCs.
After more than ten years of research, perpendicular
recording is now a proven technology. It increases
capacity and dependability by storing data vertically,
rather than horizontally. And vertically stored data bits
mean increased data density—and more gigabytes
per platter.
This Drive Holds
- 212 two-hour DVD-quality movies or
- 750 hours of VHS-quality video or
- 440 days of around-the-clock MP3 audio or
- 186,500 vivid digital photos or
- 1066 action-packed games!
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Reviewer:
Anonymous
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Sep 16, 2008
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This HDD failed for me after one year of use.
Of course figuring the drive was still so new in terms of its 5 year warranty I wasn't backing up the data. I lost over 200GB of files that were not backed up.
Seagate offers data recovery - minumum charge is US$700 up to a maximum of US$2,900
Anyway, the BIOS doesn't see the type of drive, so I'm hoping it's the logic board. I've ordered a replacement from Newegg as TG doesn't carry this model anymore.
Hopefully I'll have better luck with 2 1TB Seagate SATA drives in RAID1 configuration. |
Reviewer:
macmarkus on
Aug 22, 2008
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First 500GB HDD I purchased of this model was D.O.A. I sent it to Seagate, had them repair/refurbish it and got it back (Only bright spot was it was hassle free repair and only took 10days...in hind sight, I can see why). Installed the HDD and it failed after 6 weeks. Bottom line...Piece of junk HDD !! Now I can't even do a data recovery since I believe the ''logic'' is toast, the platter won't ''spin up''. May get it working if I can get another Barracuda 500GB with the same firmware and swap logic boards temporarily...but is it worth it ? I'm not sure.
Save your money, or buy a Western Digital, or alternate. |
Reviewer:
wourpet on
May 17, 2008
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This was an okay product while it lasted. I used it in an external carrier and had to frequently turn it off due to noise and vibration. After a few months it has failed completely. The noise became intermittent, its still spinning up, but the computer can no longer read the HD. |
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itfreak08 on
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I just purchased this ST3500630A HDD, for extra stoarge. As soon as i connected this HDD to my computer the BIOS displayed the the S.M.A.R.T error, ''backup and replace'', so after turning the SMART feature off in the BIOS, my PC then booted fine. However the HDD is spining so fast my whole computer case is shaking, and it is making horrible clunking sounds, it sounds like arm inside is hitting the case inside? and often stops working.
I have sent back to re-seller, hoping to get a replacement, however i see now this is not a good HDD and wouldn't recomment to anyone. Spend some extra money and get a decent HDD..
and by the way when I did boot into windows, and performed the seagate tools, the HDD failed the DST test |
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My drive suffered a complete failure roughly 2 months after I bought it. If you decide to buy this hard drive, I suggest you get a service plan, and make sure you keep every scrap of paper attached to it. The customer service on the seagate end of things is horrible too, so don't expect much help from them. |
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What You Should Know
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Important OEM Hard
Drive Note:
OEM hard drives do not include cables, software, or hardware (screws, brackets,
etc.). Full manufacturer's warranty applies.
Please Note:
In order to properly access the full capacity of an ATA interface hard drive
or partition larger than 137GB and properly support 48-bit logical block addressing,
Windows Vista , Windows XP Service Pack 1 or Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 are required. This
issue does not affect SCSI hard drives.
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Even The Best Hard Drives Die.
Do You Back Up?
Businesses of all sizes
are witnessing an explosion in the volume of data they hold. Whether it is
the result of the Internet, email, or increasingly heavy and media-rich
application software, there is a massive growth in the volume of data all
around. Conservative estimates place data growth at approximately 80% per
year. Data is increasingly being recognized as one of the real assets of a
company, and losing this data would cause severe damage to any organization.
Data loss can be very costly, particularly for
organizations in the small and medium business (SMB) market where the
difference between survival and closure can rest on the ability to recover
from a disaster. At the very least, critical data loss will have a financial
impact on companies of all sizes:
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Data type |
Time to re-create 20 MB |
Cost |
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Sales and marketing |
19 days |
$17,000 |
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Accounting |
21 days |
$19,000 |
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Engineering |
42 days |
$98,000 |
The financial impact on a company is a combination
of loss of business, low productivity, legal action, and the cost of
re-creating data. A study showed that the cost of re-creating just 20 MB of
data can be extensive!
Your best solution, is an external drive as a
backup. You can have multiple drives, and it is much easier restore
from a portable external drive, as opposed to CDs or DVDs.
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This Drive Includes
a PATA (Parallel ATA / EIDE ) Interface
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Enhanced integrated drive
electronics (EIDE), also called Parallel ATA (PATA), hard drives have
been the standard in the home computer industry for more than 10 years.
Some newer computer system motherboards don't have EIDE ports, but
a PCI EIDE controller card can be installed to add support for EIDE
drives. If you don't know whether your computer has EIDE ports on
the motherboard, refer to your computer or motherboard documentation
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Curious About The Differences Between Seria
ATA (SATA) and Parallel ATA (Ultra ATA)?
As time passed, increasing hard disk
transfer rate demands have forced the ATA interface specification to be
continuously updated, to avoid becoming the limiting factor in disk I/O
performance. As consumers embrace new usage models such as digital video
creation and editing, digital audio storage and playback, file sharing over
high-speed networks, and other data intensive applications, demands on hard
drive throughput have increased even further. To keep pace, the
storage interconnect had to evolve beyond the Ultra (Parallel) ATA
technology. The current approach is Serial ATA: a serial implementation of the
parallel Ultra ATA interface. With this paradigm shift in I/O design, the
roadmap of ATA was extended beyond the theoretical limits of the Ultra ATA bus.
Click To Learn More »
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 Why Do I Have
Less Drive Space?
Your hard drive may show less space than the published specifications due to
a number of reasons.
- The way size is calculated and
displayed.
- Any "Partitions" on the disk will
change the total in a specific partition.
- Hidden files and folders decrease
available space.
- Compression increases the apparent
size, but not the physical size.
- Drives larger than the OS or Drivers
natively supports.
First, the definition of a megabytes
(or gigabytes) is a unit of data storage capacity measured in 1,048,576
bytes (or 1024KB). The larger the numbers, the more apparent the size
difference will be when listing the size as megabytes (or gigabytes) versus
bytes. Actually, both numbers are correct. The noticeable difference is due
to the 1024KB definition of a megabyte. This is why a 95.3GB hard drive can
also be listed as having 102 billion bytes of total space. Just think
of it as "round off" In the screen shot at right:
The first number is the total number of bytes,
the second number is based on the number of megabytes or gigabytes.
Second, some computers have a
non-DOS hard drive partition that is used for features such as Save to Disk,
Hibernation, or Recovery. This partition is not normally reported by the
operating system, although it can be viewed using a disk partition utility.
This is very common on desktops and laptops. NOTE:
Partition information will be created or
formatted automatically during initial system setup and a system recovery.
Third, by default, all system files
are hidden and cannot be seen. This may adversely affect the reporting of
available hard drive space. You can set your Folder Options so you view
system and hidden files and folders, but do be careful as changes to system
files can adversely affect your system.
Fourth, if you turn on Compression
for a drive, it will increase reported free space and used space, but since
compression is based upon the actual contents, this number is not fixed, but
will change as files are added or changed.
Fifth, older operating systems did
not support some of today's larger drives, so the total space reported may
be much smaller than the drive specifications.
It is also worth noting that bad sectors
are corrected by your operating system and can change the total drive space,
free space, or used space as well.
So as long as a drive is reporting a value
approximately close to the specification value, you can be comfortable that
you received the right drive and that you are getting to correct data
storage. Of course, tuning of your drive's partitions and options can
yield optimal values, but this is not something for the average user to
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A Look at Hard Drives
What you need to know before you buy; the inside scoop on what to look for in a hard drive. We reveal the hidden secrets about capacity, RPMs, buffer size and more!
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A Step-by-Step Guide to Clean, Fast, and Easy Hard Drive Installation
Easy to follow, photo-illustrated steps for your no-hassle hard drive installation.
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Issues With Your PC?
Here Are Some Common Problems And Solutions!
Of course, there a thousand little things can go wrong with an average
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Manufactured by:
Seagate
Warranty provided by:
Seagate
Limited Warranty:
36 months parts;
36 months labor
Mfg Part No:
ST3500630A
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Shipping Weight:
1.0000 pound(s)
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address below and requesting the warranty for item number:
THD-500AA16
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Richmond Hill, ON
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