Seagate's Barracuda family of disc drives consists of 2.1-, 4.55-, 9.1-, 18.2- and 36.4-Gbyte capacities. Barracuda drives feature a 7,200-RPM spindle speed and an internal... more
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Seagate's Barracuda family of disc drives consists of 2.1-, 4.55-, 9.1-, 18.2- and 36.4-Gbyte capacities. Barracuda drives feature a 7,200-RPM spindle speed and an internal transfer rate of up to 22.5 Mbyte per second, making them the ideal choice for high-performance workstations, disc arrays, digital audio/video and network file-server applications.
Advantages: Fast, Quick and Very Cheap! Disadvantages: Can't think of anything at all!
...When building a cheap and cheerful Internet browsing PC for a friend, 80GB of storage seemed easily enough. After some browsing I discovered the SeagateBarracuda 7200.9 80GB, and found that it covers all the important points when buying a hard disk.
An excellent and comprehensive 5 Year warranty was provided as standard, which certainly leads to a lot of peace of mind. Hard disks always seem to be the weakest link within Home PCs, so it is always nice to see a manufacturer putting faith into a non-enterprise level product.
The large 2MB Cache also attracted me to the Seagate, and the low price tag was the final decider for me. A day later I had the Seagate installed in the PC ready for its first boot. The PC in question is a fairly standard box - an AMD Sempron 2800+, 256MB of DDR RAM and a Gigabyte motherboard. The hard disk worked...
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Advantages: Reliable Disadvantages: Not the cheapest
...Well I saw the category so I have decided to review my computers C drive.
Seagate drives are not the cheapest there are but are generally very reliable, the main drive on our PC is getting on for 3 years old and is still in perfect condition.
It is not a high speed drive so doesn't get too noisy - unlike the new high speed drives.
Fittting - it is as easy as any other IDE drive to fit, three holes on each side of standard 3 1/2 inch bay.
There are 4 x 0.1" jumpers for setting the drive up as a master or slave, or as the only drive in a PC.
To be honest there is not much more to say except that medium speed Seagate drives are very reliable and are very good for bespoke PCs.
I now have a 120GBSeagate drive as well as drive D:
The drive was supplied by the company which built the PC - in its day this drive was about £80, and the 40...
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...I have used 2 of these hard drives and never has either of them failed me in any way. Both of the hard drives offer a constant steady speed of around 60MB/s and neither of them make any sound what so ever.
I have used a number of different hard drive manufactures including Maxtor, Quantum, Western Digital and Hitachi. Seagate have to be the only manufacturer who has never let me down and offer completely silent computer usage. I found the Western Digital drive to be very noisy.
After buying one of these hard drives sometime ago for my main machine I decided again to purchase another one for another machine in the house. As stated the hard drives never make a sound and both offer high speed and stability. I never suffered any data loss with either of the hard drives.
The older drive still performs at its speed when purchased and I...
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i bought this hard drive for my new PC. As I wanted alot of storage space, so, I bought this hard drive. I was in need of such high storage capacity because I do some graphics stuff and also I wanted some space for my movie collection.
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I recently bought this drive for a new PC, and it's been the perfect drive. It's very quick i.e. excellent seek time, Good average transfer rate and great burst rate. This drive is very quiet, I hardly hear its sound when it is in operation.It's quite... more
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