Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 400GB Ultra ATA/100 Internal Hard Drive (ST3400832A)

by Seagate

Product Details

• Item Weight: 3 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0006FS2CM
• Item model number: 9Y7686-500
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 27, 2004

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

The industry standard from the industry leader. Our reliable, super-silent drive combine highly advanced storage hardware and software technology. This Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 drive provides high performance, highly reliable storage for PCs, and advanced applications, backed up by an industry-leading 5-year warranty. Its best-in-class combination of capacity, performance, and support ideally suits it for such applications as high-performance PCs, media PCs, ATA-based servers and RAIDs, and cost-effective network attached storage (NAS).

Features include:

• World's quietest 7,200-rpm drive, with the most advanced FDB motor
• Award-winning DiscWizard software makes installation a snap
• Built-in self-monitoring technology continuously checks your hard drive for data safety and drive performance.
• SeaTools diagnostic software even monitors itself
• Works with Windows XP, Me, 2000, 98SE, and NT; may be used with Linux, Mac OS and Netware
• 5-year warranty covers all parts and labor, plus free technical support even after the warranty ends

The world's highest-capacity PC hard drive at the time of its release, the Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 is also the first hard drive to store 133 GB on a single disc. This technology advantage enables Seagate to use fewer discs and heads and ensures the fastest performance and the greatest reliability of any PC hard drive in its class.

The 400 GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 provides fast performance with 8 MB cache, 7,200-rpm spin speed, and 8 ms average seek time. With Seagate's patented SoftSonic fluid dynamic bearing motors, the Barracuda 7200.8 is extremely quiet.

What's in the Box
Hard drive, Seagate utility CD-ROM, a quick-installation guide, mounting screws, and a cable.

Product Description

Includes: DiscWizard installation software, SeaTools diagnostic software, mounting screws and cable. Seagate 400GB Internal UATA 3.5" Hard Drive - This internal hard drive features a gigantic amount of storage space. 400GB worth that's perfect for capturing digital video and storing tons of personal files.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

38 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars major problems this line, July 21, 2005

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 400GB Ultra ATA/100 Internal Hard Drive (ST3400832A) (Personal Computers)

OK, we had two of these in May at work. Installed no problems in two pcs which were running cool. Both started to fail last month. I checkd out storage review and it turns out these drives, part of the 7200.8 Seagate 250, 300, and 400 gb line, are the least reliable drives on the market today.

to the person in the other review who does NOTY have a 7200.8 yet denegrated reviewers who have had this drive fail by correnting "misinformation": you are wrong. New egg is a good place to purchase, but as their site clearly notes the REMOVE negative reviews. no one trusts their reviews.

The real reviews are at storagereview dot com. this is THE acknowledged and respected hard drive review site. this drive has ABYSSMAL ratings. there are literally hundreds of data points from expert users and this Seagate 400 gb drive is in the seventh percentile, ie 93% of the drives on the market today are more reliable!

The large format (>250gb) comparable Hitachi and Maxtor are three and four times LESS likly to fail than the 7200.8 Seagates! that is a huge difference.

ussers on amazon (who actuallyhave had the drive are disappointed, hundreds of experts who handle thosuands of drives have shown extremely high failure rates over at storage review. Somethign is obviously wrong.

FYI, this drive has a higher failure problem thant the 2001 "deathstar" episode!

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Monster Drive, Great Value, September 14, 2005

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King Tut (Texas, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 400GB Ultra ATA/100 Internal Hard Drive (ST3400832A) (Personal Computers)

I researched the market looking for an external storage solution for my notebook; with external drive high prices and modest 1 year warranty going for an internal IDE of my choice and installing it in a $30 USB 2.0 enclosure was economical and easy.

The Drive; what is in the box? 3.5" drive, IDE cable, screws, 1 extra jumper, user manual, and applications CD (Installation Wizard, SeaTools diagnostic utilities, and BounceBack Backup Software). No other internal drive comes with back up software, period. The Barracuda 7200.8 drive speed secret is tucked in Seagate use of new 3 platters drive design (3x133 Meg each) versus the (4x100 Meg) or (5x80 Meg) platters designs other drives' makers use, since the drive head will spend less time spinning and traveling to find and read/write data.

Installation: First install CD software, Second: set the drive jumper to Master or Salve, Third: install the physical drive in a bay or an enclosure. Fourth: run the installation Wizard, which will guide you to format and partition the drive to either FAT or NTFS format. Of course you could partition the drive to 2 or more drive and assign any Alpha letters to it as you wish. Note: the final actual drive size after formatting is about 372 Meg.

Benefits: 3 months running fine, use the drive to (1) Backup my C drive, the BounceBack software install an icon that runs active in Windows quick launch system tray so it can run on demand, it also pops up every week to remind you to backup, or you can customize it to backup on any interval, (2) Store digital photos, MP3, graphic files, large data bases, burn and store DVD and family movies to folders rather than DVD+R discs, (3) Transfer data from and to other computers' since the USB enclosure is portable and swappable.

Performance: The Barracuda deliver an impressive performance running at 7200 RPM despite its 8 Meg cache size. Real world tests (using my hand watch) it copies an average of 1 Gig per 1 Minute, (it is actually faster than my internal Laptop's 5400 drive), the tests shows that its faster when transferring fewer larger files, and it's slower when coping a lot of smaller files. The drive runs cool and very quiet, you only see the light blinking without the humming noise other drives make.

Conclusion: if you are looking for a massive storage, innovative, silent, and solid performer, and 5 years warranty peace of mind, the Seagate 400 Meg Ultra ATA is for you. If you're looking for an external solution, get you an aluminum USB 2/Firewire enclosure and $ave. It's cheap, fun, Windows recognize it instantly, and it install in 5 minutes.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars So far, so good., April 29, 2005

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M. D. Beverley - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 400GB Ultra ATA/100 Internal Hard Drive (ST3400832A) (Personal Computers)

I purchased the Seagate 400GB drive from Amazon in January and installed it into a Cremax SohoTank 2-bay FW enclosure. Installation and operation under OS X 10.3.x have been problem free so far. The Seagate is quieter and runs cooler than my 250gb Maxtors, and hasn't given my any problems under light-duty use as a streaming music server for my household. Amazon's price has gone way up since I bought it, which is the only thing holding me back from buying a couple more.