Seagate Barracuda 500 GB 7200RPM SATA NCQ 16 MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Desktop Hard Drive ST3500641AS-RK-Retail Kit
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Customer 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.
Customer 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.
Customer Review: Good Drive
Summary: 5 Stars
This drive does essentially what you need it to. The installation was easy and the software included kind of makes it easier. This is about my fifth hard drive in my current PC and so far no problems. Price wise it may be better to go with a terabyte instead since programs are getting bigger and bigger. I have almost filled this one up with back ups of current things I have and I find myself wishing I had the larger drive instead. I have had it for about six or seven months now and no problems. I have read a lot of reviews and some were bad and I have really gathered that hard drives are good or not they will fail or not. I have never had a hard drive fail yet so I know my chances are getting better for it to happen. So far no problems with this drive and if it does occur I will update this. Overall give it a buy since the price is very nice but like I said a terabyte is nicer.Customer Review: Good value for the money
Summary: 4 Stars
This drive isn't going to knock anybody's socks off with its speed -- it's only marginally faster than my 200 GB PATA drive -- but for $120, it's a whole lot of space. It also has a jumper setting to restrict it to 150 MB/s if you have a board with a Via chipset (as I do) that can not negotiate with a 300 MB/s drive. I have not yet attempted to use the included software, but it does claim to be able to clone your existing drive if you want to replace rather than supplement your existing drive.
It's not particularly fast, but neither is it slow. It's fairly quiet, but not the quietest. It does run a bit warm, but not enough to worry me. It's a working class hard drive in all ways, just a very big one. If that's what you are looking for, you won't be disappointed by this drive.
Customer Review: Excellent Choice for Home Desktop Expansion
Summary: 4 Stars
I have had nothing but good luck with these Seagate SATA drives. This is just the right size for incremental home desktop expansion. Hard drives do fail eventually; that goes with the territory. Having multiple drives around this size (and doing reliable backups), reduces the risk that you might loose everything at the most inopportune time. Those 1.5TByte drives might look like a bargain at first, but wait until you have to restore "your life" (assuming you did religious backups.) You can also use these internal drives to keep copies of critical files as an alternative to weekly backups; however, what we eventually resort to is using this added space as a primary storage anyway and fail to backup anything. So go with the distributed concept and always do backups.