Barracuda 7200.9 is a member of the Seagate 3.5-inch family of high-capacity desktop drives targeted at mainstream and high-performance PCs and advanced storage applications. The... more
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drives targeted at mainstream and high-performance PCs and advanced storage applications. The product enables OEMs and system builders to qualify one family of drives ...
drives targeted at mainstream and high-performance PCs and advanced storage applications. The product enables OEMs and system builders to qualify one family of drives from a premier provider for a wide range of storage applications.
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...some browsing I discovered the Seagate Barracuda 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 ... ...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 seamlessly from the moment the power button was pressed, being correctly detected by the BIOS and seen to its full capacity.
Windows XP did not take long at all to install. I use an older PC as a benchmark for install times - The old P4 1.8GHz ...
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Barracuda 7200.9 is a member of the Seagate 3.5-inch family of high-capacity desktop drives targeted at mainstream and high-performance PCs and advanced storage applications. The product enables OEMs and system builders to qualify one family of drives from a premier provider for a wide range of storage applications.
Expansion / connectivity
Interfaces: 1 x ATA-100 - 40 PIN IDC
Compatible Bays: 1 x internal - 3.5" x 1/3H
Miscellaneous
Compliant Standards: RoHS
Manufacturer warranty
Service & Support: 5 years warranty
Service & Support Details: Limited warranty - 5 years
Environmental parameters
Min Operating Temperature: 0 °C
Max Operating Temperature: 60 °C
Shock Tolerance: 63 g @ 2ms (operating) / 350 g @ 2ms (non-operating)
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