Seagate 500GB 16MB 7200 RPM Bulk/OEM Hard Drive ST3500630AS

by Seagate

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 5.8 x 4 x 1 inches ; 1.4 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000UCAQ1G
• Item model number: ST3500630AS
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 26, 2007

Product Description

With more than 16 million drives shipped, the Barracuda 7200.10 drive family offers the industry's flagship perpendicular recording product and provides a best-in-class combination of reliability, capacity and performance.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Performs Well!, October 31, 2007

By 

Yo' Vinny (Houston, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Seagate 500GB 16MB 7200 RPM Bulk/OEM Hard Drive ST3500630AS (Personal Computers)

I purchased several of these for a striped array. They all worked out of the box without an issue. I would recommend it. Obviously don't forget to set the jumper to SATA2 if you have the appropriate controller.

Also, all you get is the drive in a plain brown box. No manual and no cables.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great hard drive, July 25, 2008

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Robert R. Evans - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Seagate 500GB 16MB 7200 RPM Bulk/OEM Hard Drive ST3500630AS (Personal Computers)

This is a great price for a SATA 500 gigabyte hard drive. Be warned - it comes with no supporting documentation, nor does it come with a SATA cable. But the installation instructions are readily available at the Seagate website, and a SATA cable can be had for 6 or 7 bucks. In addition, you'll need to buy a hard drive cradle or caddy that fits your particular hard drive bay. Installation was pretty easy for me - plug the cable into one of my two SATA ports, hook up the power tab from the computer's power supply, and bang - you're in business with the most affordable hard drive of its type. Note - I've heard some people complain that the drive is noisy. This was the case for me at first - because the SATA cable I used had a rather bulky connector which stuck out from the hard drive and made contact with the computer case. The case itself amplified the hard drive noise. A little pad of thin rubber solved the problem completely. Keep in mind I use my computer as a digital audio work station on which I produce a radio show - so any noise would be a real problem when I record from my microphone. It's not been an issue thus far.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars easy installation, no sata cables with it., January 14, 2008

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Fernando Vargas Sequeira - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Seagate 500GB 16MB 7200 RPM Bulk/OEM Hard Drive ST3500630AS (Personal Computers)

I bought this HD to replace a crashed sangsung HD of my desktop. It has 500GB, efective capacity is 472GB. Installation was very easy, my desktop recognize it at first time. It is working not as a sata 3.0Gb/s, it is working as a sata 1.5Gb/s, no problem at all.

Perpendicular Recording HD, cool!!!

Just one thing, no cables at all, no sata data cable, no sata power cable, no nothing, I got one from my motherboard.

4 stars, lets see what will happen with it.