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: Upgrade to ST3500-641AS
Summary: 5 Stars
The HDD in my computer was a little more than 4 years old and working with no problems. I decided to replace it with something newer - the old drive had a 3 year warrantee and gets used a lot. My biggest concern was with migrating dozens of programs to the new drive. After checking variious web-sites, I decided to go with Seagate because of the DiscWizzard utility. I was able to mirror my old drive in about 4 hours without any interruption. Then it took about 25 mins to pop the old one out and put the new Seagate in. Everything worked flawlessly! The Seagate is noticeably faster and much quieter than the old drive. It's been running for a week with no problems at all.Customer Review: major let-down
Summary: 1 Stars
I purchased this drive in September '08 and it crashed less than two months later. No warning signs--drive just failed. I was shocked because the Seagate name was highly recommended by a friend. Sure, the drive had an extra-long warranty and sure this could happen with any brand, but still a major pain in the ### dealing wih the aftermath. Fortunately I had all of my info backed up on an external HD. Less than two months out of this drive is ridiculous, after all, this is not a no-name company. Strangely enough, the drive that failed before this one was a Maxtor (which is also manfactured by Seagate). Seagate's customer service was not very helpful.Customer Review: Good while it works
Summary: 1 Stars
Head crash at nine months. Hard drive had four fans to keep it cool, so was operating just above room temperature. Zero shocks to the drive (unless they occurred in shipping before I got it, of course). I wonder if these are designed based on Maxtor mechanisms (some of which were prone to heads breaking off due to a design flaw). Either way, my trust in Seagate drives just went way down....
It sounded like low frequency hum and high frequency whine as the head etched a groove in the media. By the time the dd to clone the drive to a spare was finished, the drive was completely unreadable (including the parts that I'd already read).
Customer Review: The warrantee, the warrantee, the warrantee
Summary: 4 Stars
Seagate stands behind this product with a 5 year warrantee. I've tried all the brands over the years, both IDE, SATA and SCSI, and nobody makes failure proof disk drives. I've sent back drives to everyone. SCSI will last you much longer with better performance, but at a much higher price point. I have six of these in various machines and they're quite satisfactory. You will probably be looking at 1TB models after summer 2008, but there are some heat and noise issues some report with those units. These are satisfactory in that regard. SATA is an improvement in some respects, but not hugely different in performance from IDE on most machines.Customer Review: fast, reliable, and good priced
Summary: 4 Stars
I bought this for my Antec Sonata III case, planing on a very quiet pc. I was so a little disapointed on the noice level. As the description says "whisper quiet", it isnt reallt that quiet.
You wouldn't really hear anything if you have your fans making all the noice, but since all my fans are very quiet, I do hear this hard disk above all other, and it was very anoying the first few days. But after a while I got used to it and know dont hear a thing.
For a 500GB Seagate HD you can hardly get a better price, so I recommend this product.