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| Seagate ST3750640AS-RK Barracuda 750 GB SATA NCQ Internal Hard Drive | 
 enlarge | List Price: $179.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (based on 21 reviews)
Sales Rank: 5901
Category: CE
Publisher: Seagate
Studio: Seagate
Brand: Seagate
Label: Seagate
Format: Cd
Media: Electronics
Autographed: 0
Memorabilia: 0
Batteries Included: 0
System Memory: 16
Hard Drive Size: 750
Warranty: 5 years warranty
Shipping Weight (lbs): 6
Dimensions (in): 7.2 x 9.6 x 3.6
MPN: ST3750640AS-RK
Model: ST3750640AS-RK
UPC: 763649002681
EAN: 2000012184475
ASIN: B000JDHS5I
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | 750 GB SATA NCQ internal hard drive features SATA with 3 Gbps and Native Command Queuing | | • | 16 MB cache buffer; 7200 RPM for fast read/write times | | • | Whisper-quiet with a 2.5 bels idle and 2.8 bels seek acoustics | | • | Includes internal drive, interface cable, serial ATA power cable, DiscWizard installation software, SeaTools diagnostic software, quick install guide, and mounting screws | | • | 5-year limited warranty |
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Product Description
The world today runs on information. Every time you access the Internet, hit "send", trade a stock online, use an ATM or even watch a Hollywood blockbuster movie with computer-generated special effects, you create, access and share tremendous amounts of digital information. Seagate is committed to developing the technology and manufacturing the products that help make it all happen.PRODUCT FEATURES:Best-in-class environmental specification and reliability features;New perpendicular recording technology enables higher areal density, fewer moving parts and increased dependability;Adaptive Fly Height offers consistent read/write performance from the beginning to the end of your computing workload;Clean Sweep automatically calibrates your drive;Directed Offline Scan runs diagnostics when storage access is not needed;RoHS Directive-compliant design assures you an environmentally conscious product;Enhanced G-Force Protection defends against handling damage;Seagate SoftSonic motor enables whisper-quiet operation.This product is designed for MD: special RAID edition
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| Customer Reviews: Read 16 more reviews...
 Excelent product June 27, 2008
This product works just as expected. Absolutely no problems so far.
I'm left with 698gb after doing an NTFS partition.
No noise, no surprises, just what I ordered
750 GB Barracuda May 3, 2008
I purchased this 750 (698) GB Barracuda from Amazon, it arrived within four days. The original seagate box was snuggled in a larger amazon box with a few air-pillows keeping it secure.
The drive was easy to install, open your computer case, discharge any static electricity from your fingers then install the new drive with a screw driver. Plug the sata cable into your harddrive and the other end to the correct sata port on your motherboard.
Plug in the power cable to the harddrive then turn on your computer.
Use the seagate disc to install the tools you need to set up the harddrive. Select if you want it as a boot drive or just a secondary drive, then set the partition sizes. Thats about it.
I used the tools to clone my original boot drive then in bios set the drive to boot up and everything went smoothly with no problems...
I highly recommend this drive, it has plenty of space till the terrabite drives are more in my price range.
 Save yourself alot of time April 16, 2008
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
I have had two of these drives fail. Neither had more than 30 hours of use. In fact I barely had all my applications installed. What was really nice was finding out the second one failed the morning of April 15 when I was attempting to boot up and submit my tax return.
Very disappointing. They'll send me another drive but I'll not be installing my operating system or any critical files on it. Just too unreliabe. In fact I don't even know what I'm going to do with it. Seems silyy to have a back drive you have to backup onto another drive.
I don't do any gaming or use any apps that place high demand on the hard drive. In fact the computer hasn't even been plugged in for three months. I used to like Seagate but they have lost a customer for life. When two units fail like this in less than 80 hours total use I believe its a pretty good indication of how good the product is.
I should have listened to the reviewers before buying. But in the old days I had a Seagate last ten years without fail so my judgment was clouded. Clearly quality is a thing of the past with Seagate. These drives effectively wasted 30+ hours of my life.
Buy this drive if you like to talk to people in India otherwise try another vendor.
Horribly packaged by Amazon March 27, 2008
3 out of 10 found this review helpful
The drives came in a box that was barely tall enough to hold the two of them with absolutely no padding whatsoever. I realize these are retail boxes and the drives are encased in clamshells, but here I sit with a drive that most likely got tossed around by UPS, which is notorious for throwing boxes around, with no padding outside of the plastic clamshell that held it. I tested the clamshell to see how good it is at absorbing force applied to it from a flat surface and let me tell you, these things do not offer much in the form of blocking vibrations and softening blows. It will be a miracle if any of these drives work.
I specifically ordered retail kit drives from Amazon, hoping that this would offer me more protection over the OEM drives other vendors sell, with too little padding material. But Amazon made up for the fact that these actually come in black clamshells inside their box, by not padding the box that was used to ship them and by using a box that was barely large enough to hold them, offering them no protection from shipping damage, whatsoever.
This is my last electronic equipment purchase from Amazon, that's for certain!
Now, before any of you complain that this review should be of the drives themselves and not Amazon, bear in mind that in my experience most of the problems these drives encounter, both in terms of arriving DOA and early failure are due to how the drive is handled (i.e., shipped, packaged) than whether or not it is manufactured in China or Thailand. Granted, I haven't had any Thai manufactured drives fail and have had two of these fail that were made in China. However, the two that did fail were also the worst packaged OEM drives out of the ones I've put into use.
One was an early failure within the first month, that made squeeking noises right out of the packing box. It had soft bubblewrap around it, but the ends were not covered. I would not be surprised if there was shock to the drive ends in shipment.
The second drive was a DOA, it completely came out of its bubblewrap during shipping, once again, because apparently the ends were not covered and it must have been tossed enough by UPS to make it come out of the probably loose bubblewrap.
So, in my experience, it's all about how securely and safely these things are packaged in shipment. Sure, there is probably a small percentage defect rate out of the factory, but it's what happens during shipment that seems to be the real driving factor in whether these drives live out their term.
I'll be adding additional information to this review as I test the two drives I received. I have a Perl script that I wrote that puts a drive through its paces, doing both sequential reads and write across the entire surface as well as random reads/writes in a continuous fashion. This procedure is a good way to discover a bad drive early on, rather than have it fail 1-3 months down the road.
1st day report:
Miraculously, both drives have passed an initial test which performed the writing of 16MB files to a single partition spanning the entirety of each drive (i.e., a single 750GB partition), until the partition was full, followed by a sequential read of all 44,706 of those files. Additionally, I ran two sets of 250 entire file rewrites in rapid succession, with each of the 250 files randomly selected from the 44,706 written, followed by 250 random entire file reads on each drive, once again with each file randomly chosen from the 44,706, without incident. This was a random access test.
It seems that I underestimated the ability of the clamshells, in lieu of any other protection whatsoever, to protect the drives from utter destruction during shipment. I was somewhat skeptical, initially, of the clamshell's ability to shield the bare drive from vibration and shock, but apparently they are much better at reducing those elements to below the drive's critical 300 G non-operating shock limit, than I thought. I will continue testing over the course of the next week and will report back in this review.
Frustrated!! March 7, 2008
1 out of 20 found this review helpful
over 15 days to deliver ... still haven't received my drives. Amazon customer service is useless.
AAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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