Seagate barracuda SATA 320gb hard drive review

Advantages: Fast, Value for Money, Quiet, 5yr warranty
Disadvantages: none that i know

...If you need extra storage for all your music, games and videos, which take up a vast amount of room then this hard drive is a safe bet. With a 5 year warranty from trusted seagate and the solid feel of it, it's a quality product. I was temped to buy an external hard drive as I thought that would be easier to install, just plug in, but installing an internal drive was only a bit more complicated and well worth it. My friend's got an external hard drive but it gets very hot as it has no fan, and as it is connected by usb, it's not as fast at transferring data. You can get external hard drives connected by sata cables, which are quicker, but these are more expensive. Other bonuses of being inside is that there is more room on my desk, no need for another plug socket and they are cheaper. A disadvantage of internal drives is if you want...

simpson123 17.12.2006 · Read review
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Review of Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320 GB

Barracuda 7200.11 AVOID at all costs

Advantages: low noise
Disadvantages: no reliability what so ever, will definitely break unless you update firmware

...The Seagate 7200.11 is probably is worst hard disk there is. I have only had it for 9 months and it's broken. I will keep myself to be subjective when writing this review though - so there's no need to worry! = the BASICS The Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 was released in 2008. It was the 11th generation of the Barracuda line of hard drives. It comes in 160Gb, 320Gb, 500Gb (mine), 640Gb, 750Gb, 1TB and 1.5TB. It runs on 3 disk platters and can be subjected to forces of 350Gs when not operating. =my EXPERIENCE The hard drive was working well, compared to my previous (Western Digital 250Gb) which at times doesn't work and clicks occasionally, displaying error 51 in Event Viewer. 9 months down the line of first buying it one day the computer does not boot up at all. Going into BIOS and the hard drive is not recognised! So I looked...

ecolier 01.11.2009 · Read review
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Review of Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 500 GB

The Barracuda ES

Advantages: Large capacity, Very Fast transfer rate
Disadvantages: Internal setup may pose trouble for some

...I've been using the Barracuda 320GB Hard Drive for some months now, I bought it for the capacity, speed and new features aswell as many past experiences with seagate drives that have always been good, they may not come top in benchmark tests but there usually in the top five and are one of the most quiet. As with most drives, after formatting you lose some space, the 320GB ended up being about 298GB, but no complaints here 298 gigs is more space than I'll ever use. The "ES" models are the ones to buy if you want reliability there designed for 24/7 operation mainly used in businesses, the Barracuda ES monitors temperatures and shuffles I/O requests to allow the drive to cool if it gets too hot. Internal is cheaper than external and you save desktop space, plus some external drives require a separate power supply so you also save...

JGK555 22.02.2007 · Read review
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Review of Seagate Barracuda ES 320 GB

Barracuda Enterprise-Server

Advantages: fast, quiet, five years warranty
Disadvantages: hot

...The Barracuda ES line is the higher-end (aka server line) series from Seagate, one of the big player in the storage business. It's designed for 24/7 operation and comes with five years warranty. This one is the SATA-II type which allows a maximum 3Gbps transfer rate. Some old motherboards can't accept SATA-II type of harddisk, so Seagate puts a jumper to "downgrade" the Barracuda ES to SATA-I specification (1.5 Mbps transfer rate). It has 16MB cache for maximum speed and reliability. Most hard disks come with 4-8MB of cache size. This one is very fast, reliable and impressive. I've been using it for almost 3 years, 6-12 hours a day and no single data corruption to date. It's relatively quiet but can be pretty hot when using continuously. Yes, I said hot, not warm. Sensor reading from the software "Everest" shows that...

newmachine 26.10.2008 · Read review
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Review of Seagate Barracuda ES 250 GB

Another great Seagate Drive

Advantages: Price
Disadvantages: Noise

...Seagate have always made great hard drives and this is no excepetion it reads and writes fast. This drive is one in a new range of seagate drives that use perpendicular recording technology, meaning more space per platter. There is only one bad point to this drive and that is the noise you can here it read this may not be a problem for some but compared to the samsung hard drive I also have in my pc, the seagate makes the most noise (you cant hear the samsung). Good points for this drive include the price its pritty cheap for the price and amount of storage you get, being a seagate you get a nice long 5 year guarantee. Technical specs - Capacity: 250 GB - Speed: 7200 rpm - Interface: SATA-II - Cache: 16MB - 5 year manufacturer''s warranty To conclude this is an excellent hard drive as expected from such a great...

pdthegreat 22.09.2006 · Read review
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Review of Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250 GB

Seagate 160 GB HDD, ATA 100

Advantages: Only sleekness. Nothin other than this in my opinion
Disadvantages: Everything. Performance, reliability, speed, sound etc.

.... Comparison Im using Hitachi 160 GB now and it really rocks. Reliability is very good and very silent in its operation. Also Hitachi performance is better with its 8MB cache. It took 1.57 minutes to copy a 6.8 GB Hi-Def movie file in Hitachi but this took 2.41 minutes. Not recommended to buy this, its better to buy Seagate HDD of capacity 250 GB and above. Advantage In my opinion the only advantage that i can mention is the Manufacturer's support. He never let me down even for a single time when i went to him for servicing this HDD when it got repaired. :-) This is truly my opinion and mean no harm to anyone. P.S = Thanx for your ratings in advance. Regards Nishanth Lakshminarayanan....

nishanthl21111987 02.11.2008 · Read review
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Review of Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 160 GB

Barracudas fly.

Advantages: Quality make. Cost.
Disadvantages: Slight noise.

...I have had this hard drive for a few months and will give an honest review. To begin with, I decided to build my own pc. This is not as hard as it sounds and is really just a matter of buying 5 or 6 components and plugging them all in. You can save a lot of the cost of buying from a store while getting exactly what you want. So the hard drive I chose was this 80gb drive from Seagate. I bought it from ebuyer.com for around £40 with postage. It is an ATA (as opposed to SATA) hard drive. SATA is the latest technology and is supposed to be quicker. To be honest though this is plenty quick enough for me. I tend to surf the net a lot, trade shares online, a bit of word processing and the odd game. Nothing which requires ultra quick speeds. The 80gb capacity is probably far too much for what I need. I think actually 20gb would be...

simcox1 18.07.2005 · Read review
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Review of Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 80 GB

Seagate keep up their standards... As usual!

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 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 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...

mattyprice4004 04.09.2006 · Read review
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Review of Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 80 GB

Seagate do it again

Advantages: Reliable, Good Value for money, quiet, 5 year warrenty.
Disadvantages: Heat

...Ever since I bought a computer a few years ago from an online retailer I have never used any other hard drive than a seagate baracuda for a few reasons, one being that they run very quietly due to the Fluid Dynamic Bearing technology they use. Another is that they are extreemly reliable, I have used 2 in one of my own systems and one in a system I built for a friend (the drive being reviewed). I was starting to worry about the reliability of these drives due to a problem my friend was having with his computer(the one I built), after doing all of the diagnostic tests(seatools) provided with the drive (if you buy retail) or downloadable (if you buy it OEM(original equipment manufacturer, basically you buy just the drive, no cables, no driver CDs/floppies, nothing)) and nothing was wrong with the drive, it turned out to be a windows...

poozle 25.08.2004 · Read review
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Review of Seagate Barracuda ATA V 120 GB

Seagate ST9320325AS

Advantages: Small, quiet, reliable
Disadvantages: Can't think of any really

...I bought this particular harddrive recently to be used as backup for all my photos and music and other miscellaneous documents that I have managed to collect over the years. Basically, mainly all external hard drives on the market today are just ordinary hard drives in an external caddy which provides power and allows you to connect it to your computer to read data. It's extremely easy to buy your own hard drive and caddy, connect them together yourself and away you go with your own customised external HDD. A 2.5" hard drive is the size used for laptops so consequently it is smaller and more compact than a regular 3.5" drive for desktops. The Seagate ST9320325AS is a SATA-300 drive which basically means it's quite fast although the regular consumer doesn't really notice the difference all that much between that and older style...

tor0908 06.10.2009 · Read review
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