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Features: 3D Defence System, Fluid Dynamic Bearing (FDB) motor, giant magnetoresistive (GMR) head technology, Enhanced Partial Response Maximum Likelihood (EPRML), RunOn Technology
Performance
Drive Transfer Rate: 33 MBps (external) / 9.7 MBps (internal)
Seek Time: 2 ms (average)
Track-to-Track Seek Time: 2 ms
Average Latency: 8.3 ms
Spindle Speed: 3600 rpm
Reliability
MTBF: 100,000 hour(s)
Non-Recoverable Errors: 1 per 10^14
Start / Stop Cycles: 300,000
Expansion / connectivity
Compatible Slots: 1 x CompactFlash Card - type II
Manufacturer's 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: 3, 600-RPM spindle speed and 2-Mbyte buffer combine for superior performance; Quiet operation. Fluid Dynamic Bearing (FDB) motor; Giant magneto resistive (GMR) recording heads and EPRML technology, which provide the drives with increased areal density; State-of-the-art cache and on-the-fly error-correction algorithms; 1.5K Gs nonoperating shock, and 200 Gs operating shock; SeaTools diagnostic software performs a drive self-test that eliminates unnecessary drive returns.
Environmental parameters
Min Operating Temperature: 0 °C
Max Operating Temperature: 70 °C
Humidity Range Operating: 5 - 90%
Shock Tolerance: 200 g @ 1ms (operating) / 1500 g @ 1ms (non-operating)
Vibration Tolerance: 1 g @ 5-500 Hz (operating) / 5 g @ 5-500 Hz (non-operating)
Advantages: The Best on the Market Disadvantages: None
...I must say that I would never use anything other than a Seagate Hard Drive in any of my computers. I have never had a problem with them. They have never frozen, crashed, caused errors or any other major catastrophe.
Seagate make very reliable, easy to install hard drives at extemely affordable prices. I have tried others but at the end of the day, because the computers that I build have to be top notch, I will always plump for a Seagate. It doesn't matter what size it is their hard drives always perform to peak capacity and are compatible with any other component that I use.
You may think that I'm beginning to sound like a salesman but I think that, if you find something worth having, you should definately let others know about it.
Prices for the Seagate range from £32.95 for the 20GB U series x 20 to £360.99 for the 146.8GB...
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Advantages: Standard Disadvantages: Extremely unreliable, warranty is only one year
...One of the most unreliable and fault ridden disks I've ever seen. I purchased a batch of similarly sized Maxtors, Hitachis, Seagates and Western Digital drives around 3 years ago. I had about 15 Maxtors, of which I now have 7 remaining. In comparison, I've only lost 1 Hitachi and 2Seagates. I'd say that pretty much speaks for itself.
To top it off, whilst the Seagates came with 3 year return to base warranties, the Maxtors have about a 1 year. I wouldn't say that's a vote of confidence from the manufacturer on the product's reliability. Though, 1 year warranty on hard disks does seem to be becoming industry standard.
For disk purchases I would highly recommend Western Digital or Seagate. I still have 4 GB WD Caviars that are still up and running!...
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...After 4 or 5 years of using Seagate and western digital I got a bit fed up of self corruption from Seagate and slow relay times from Western digital, so I turned to Samsung.
The very first Samsung hard-drive I purchased was their 4gb IDE series and how I was amazed. Two years down the line and it still works perfectly, with great speeds.
Now that ive bought myself one of their 20gbseries I am even more amazed.
The amount this hard-drive can hold and without flaw is astonishing to say the least, it’s a serious Seagate and Western digital beater.
In my opinion you cannot get better than Samsung they rule the hard-drive industry hands down, ive done countless reformats, repartitions everything on both Samsungs and not once has either died on me like the unforgotten Seagate’s which I previously had and neither has it slowed...
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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
I've used a similar model for a long time and I have mixed opinions about 7200.10 hard drives.
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Seagate hdd are the most stables drives in the market, I've used my drive for quite a time and never... more
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