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The Seagate Barracuda 500GB is a 7200RPM hard drive with five hundred theoretical gigabytes of storage space – the drive also has 16MB of cache. The disk uses SATA, has S.M.A.R.T sensors and is 3.5... more

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  • 20 of 20 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 4 Coolchris330

    Member since 14/09/2010

    Reviews written: 93

    4 Stars A fast, stable hard drive - despite brand history 12/03/2012
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Speedy drive, runs at an alright temperature, fast sequential read/write speeds

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Slow-ish 'Random Read + Rewrite' test, old brand history of irreliability

    The Seagate Barracuda 500GB is a 7200RPM hard drive with five hundred theoretical gigabytes of storage space – the drive also has 16MB of cache. The disk uses SATA, has S.M.A.R.T sensors and is 3.5” in size. Performance The disk is amongst the faster hard drives, with the capability to go up to 7200RPM – pretty much the fastest hard drive speed for consumer hard drives. You can go higher, but it's uncommon. The hard drive also has 16MB cache, which is used to 'store' regularly used information from computer use for faster access, much in the same way as RAM is used. There are several hard ... more

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Product Description Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 - hard drive - 500 GB - SATA-300, Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 - hard drive - 500 GB - SATA-600
Type Hard drive - internal
Capacity 500 GB
Form Factor 3.5" x 1/4H
Interface Serial ATA-300, Serial ATA-600

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