Seagate 9Y7274-557 300 GB Internal Ultra ATA Hard Drive

by Seagate

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0006FS24K
• Item model number: 9Y7274-557
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 27, 2004

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 drives provide high-performance, highly-reliable storage for PCs and advanced applications, backed up by an industry-leading five-year warranty. Their best-in-class combination of capacity, performance, and support ideally suit them for such applications as high-performance PCs, media PCs, ATA-based servers and RAIDs, and cost-effective network attached storage (NAS).

Features

• 7,200 RPM SoftSonic motor: Whisper-quiet acoustics and high reliability in a high-performance environment
• RoHS-compliant: Significantly reduced levels of lead complies with all environmental legislation
• Enhanced G-Force Protection: High nonoperating shock specification ensures top reliability and durability during shipment and integration

Distinctions

• Best combination of performance, acoustics, and robustness in multiple high capacities
• Whisper-quiet acoustics
• Proven, reliable design

Product Description

Includes: DiscWizard installation software, SeaTools diagnostic software, mounting screws and cable. Seagate 300GB Internal UATA 3.5" Hard Drive - This internal hard drive features a gigantic amount of storage space. 300GB worth that's perfect for capturing digital video and storing tons of personal files.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Breif Review, October 18, 2005

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Scott Park (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Seagate 9Y7274-557 300 GB Internal Ultra ATA Hard Drive (Personal Computers)

I purchased approximately 10 of the Seagate 300 GB drives in the past year. Only one drive had a problem where it failed to format, the rest have been fine. They have been employed in a variety of external cases as well as internally in both Macs and PCs. The drives are remarkably quiet and seem to have decent performance.

Pros:

- Quiet operation

- Decent speed

- Consistent reliability

Cons:

- One bad out of 10

Recommendation: Overall Seagate drives seem to be reliable, despite the problem I've had with one. It's a good idea to do a low level format (long format) on any new drive, which was how I weeded out the bad drive.

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Two defective units in 30 days!, May 23, 2005

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C. Cutler (Orlando, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Seagate 9Y7274-557 300 GB Internal Ultra ATA Hard Drive (Personal Computers)

I had TWO of these die in the first 30 days! Both times, the drive would shut itself down with a "clunk" in the middle of writing something to the drive. Seagate technical support verified that the units were defective. I have found quite a few other people having the same problem with this particular unit on some of the tech support web sites. Although I have always been a Seagate fan (I used to build computer systems and always used Seagate drives), the quality control and/or engineering on this particular product is horrible.

I returned the second one and purchased a Western Digital drive, which has been working perfectly.

Don't take the chance with your data until they fix the problems with this model. Buy something else!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Works fine for over a month now, August 10, 2005

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Thomas Klienpeter "Tom" (Houston, TX USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Seagate 9Y7274-557 300 GB Internal Ultra ATA Hard Drive (Personal Computers)

I've got one of these in a remote win2k3 box in a datacenter. It's used right now to do various things, and one of those is host torrents for alluvion.org as well as Systm. This involves a lot of random read/writes to the drive as various 'parts' of files are sent to users. Systm saw over 1000 people download the file of Systm Ep. 1 at once, and the server (using this very drive) was able to do that quite happily and speedily to about 150 or so at a time.

The bad reviews here baffle me, because I have had none of the listed problems. I guess it's based on luck, or the fact that I bought it from one of the amazon.com 'partners' instead of amazon itself.