Customer Reviews

Seagate Barracuda 750 GB SATA NCQ Internal Hard Drive ST3750640AS-RK

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4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(9)

 

 

This is the best, increased storage in my Apple Mac G5 1.8 Dual. Installation was a snap, no problems. This drive now holds all my Apps, digital photos and Backups from other Hard Drives. Fast and quiet.

I like this hard drive for so many reasons.It's fast,silent,does not over heat and has a large amount of data storage space.I was looking for an Internal hard drive to keep all my games,music and movies on one device and this thing works great for that.If you use Windows Vista like i do then you will love this device because it is 100% compatible with it.I have heard some people complain that this hard drive and Vista do not get along but i have not had ANY problems with it(i use this as my second internal hard drive).This drive works great.

Pros:
750GB of Drive Space, Fast and Easy Installation, SATA (no jumpers or thick cables), 5-year Warranty Included, Retail Box

Cons:
None, I'm currently at 9 months of use and everything is working fine.

Comments:
The 250GB IDE hard drive that I bought years ago costs the same as this Seagate 750GB drive. At its third year, the 250GB hard drive was clicking and having some read/access errors, so I luckily backed it up before it died. I replaced it with this new 750GB drive and everything is running smoothly. This is a nice upgrade over the 250GB drive considering performance and drive capacity.

Installed easily on my Mac G5. No problems whatsoever so far. Of course "750GB" means you really get 698GB, but that kind of misrepresentation is standard with any drive.

Superb device. Excellent performance. Good packaging and forwarding..
Arrived in the same condition as it should be. Perfect working. Speed is excellent. Recommendable to anyone.. defenitey!!

I purchased 2 seagate 7200.10 drives for a large RAID array to backup my data. After about 6 months, I would hear a strange clicking sound and my mouse would lockup for a few seconds every so often. Then it got much worse and I stated getting random system crashes. I traced the clicking to one of the drives. Disconnecting the drives, the system is back to normal (less 1.5 TB of space).

This is a workstation and is only on a few hours per day. The drives are rated at 700,000 hours MTBF (79 YEARS running 24x7). I tried their seatools diagnostic tools, both dos and windoze based, and it could not even find them on an industry standard Silicon Image RAID controller on a fairly new Asus mobo. System Mechanic found errors and crashed during the diagnostics. At this point, all of the 1+ terabytes of data was gone.

Having 2 of these drives crash simultaneously should happen only every 6385 years if their reliability estimate were reliable. They had a 120 mm fan directly in front of them in a monster case with an 800W power supply so neither heat nor power would be a likely cause.

I destroyed the array in BIOS, recreated it and windows could see it. But, they started clicking continuously during the formatting and never finished.

I tried using each drive separately and neither can be seen by seatools nor formatted by windoz. I tried the drives and seatools on another test system and got the same unacceptable results.

I was on hold with tech support in India for an hour. He barely spoke English and the phone connection was so terrible, we had to spell everything out letter by letter. I told him what I had tried and that they were clicking continuously and he transferred to me the rma department.

After half an hour on hold, I had to re-read the entire back of the drive letter by letter as well as give her all of my information again. They apparently use hand written notes rather than keeping case facts in a central database. It took about half an hour. What a waste if time.

She told me it would cost me $43 for an advanced replacement or they would send replacement drives after they got mine and make me wait an extra week. When your backup array is DOA, you need replacements yesterday. Then, they want me to pay shipping on the dead drives.

The topping on the cake was their offer to charge me $7,500 per drive to recover my data. They charge less than $190 for the drive and $7,500 to read it. They should restore the data their poor quality destroys at their own expense. If their reprehensible reliability drives them out of business, they should be out of business. What a colossal ripoff!

I have ordered 2 Hitachi 1 terabyte drives to replace them. Shipping was $10.25 for both drives. I will put the refurb drives on eBay and see what I can get for them.

Deplorable reliability, dysfunctional tools, extremely slow and problematic support and a ripoff rma policy takes seagate off my approved vendor list for good!

This is now my second replacement drive, and once again the drive fails with a clicking sound, bringing down the entire computer. When removed from the SATA power connector, my Mac starts up perfectly.

The first revision of this drive (an "AAK" firmware) was ridiculously slow - about 1/3 the speed of my Western Digital Caviar 750GB SATA drives. The replacement ("AAE") firmware is faster, but still only 1/2 the speed of the WD drive.

Now, with complete data loss, I'm over Seagate. (Read about their recent firmware issues on other drives...)

AVOID like the plague!

Return service, btw, is easy - and can be done online. For $20 you get an "advanced replacement" with free 2 day shipping and free return shipping. Not bad. I guess that Seagate must have this return system down to a science if the problems I've had are any indication.

I have had 2 Seagate models in the past month fail. This 750GB and a 500GB installed one after the other in my computer since December 13th. Both failed. The 750GB failed after 4 weeks 6 days and the 500GB failed after 1 day. I have found after bringing one back still under 30 day return policy and the other having to send back to Seagate for replacement that they have been having quite a few failures due to a firmware problem with numerous models. This is not widely advertised and I had to dig to find this information out. I am very upset and do not want a replacement since their customer service at this point has been lousy. I am out $275.00 since I paid to have these drives installed and an operating system installed as well. Plus I am now stuck with a replacement drive that I am frankly afraid to even put into the computer. AVOID until this problem is fixed without placing the burden on you to upgrade the firmware! MY 2 cents!

This product works just as expected. Absolutely no problems so far.
I'm left with 698gb after doing an NTFS partition.
No noise, no surprises, just what I ordered

After years of avoiding Seagate drives, I finally decided to take another and bought this drive for video editing. It's fast, but a bit noisy, the noisiest I've had in a while. Earlier Western Digital drives have been significantly quieter, and they seem to run slightly cooler than the Seagates. Despite these minor issues, I like the drive and recommend it.