Seagate ST3500641A-RK Barracuda 500 GB Ultra ATA/100 3.5-Inch Internal Hard Drive

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 9.6 x 3.6 inches ; 5 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000F3XHLG
• Item model number: ST3500641A-RK
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #25,681 in Electronics (See Bestsellers in Electronics)

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• Date first available at Amazon.com: March 20, 2006

Product Description

From the Manufacturer
Seagate 500 GB Internal Ultra ATA/100 16 MB Cache Hard Drive. Seagate Barracuda 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

• RoHS Compliant: Meets or exceeds all current and proposed environmental standards and legislation
• 350 Gs non-operating shock: Protection against handling damage
• 16 MB Cache: Provides the highest performance with increased data bursting through the interface
• 2.8 bels idle, 3.2 bels seek acoustics: Super-quiet drive is almost inaudible. Difference between idle and seek can hardly be detected by human ear, making drive operation almost silent
• 3-D Defense System: Industry's most comprehensive drive and data protection system
• 7,200 RPM: Higher performance and data through-put
• 63 Gs operating shock: Robust product for challenging applications

Product Description
Seagate 500 GB Internal Ultra ATA/100 16 MB Cache Hard Drive. Seagate Barracuda 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).

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Drive is really ST3500630A., January 3, 2008

By	Ramblin' Rex - See all my reviews

My plan was to buy a large drive to backup up my computers and store it in a safety deposit box. After reviewing the unhappy user reports of the newer perpendicular technology disks, I decided to go with the older tried and true technology. The Seagate website lists the current three generations of this size disk: 7200.9, 7200.10 and 7200.11. Generations 10 and 11 are the new perpendicular storage technology.

The particular part number I ordered, ST3500641A, is listed on the Seagate website as the 500GB 7200.9 generation. The part number on the retail box that I received is the same. However, the disk inside lists its part number as ST3500630A. When installed, the disk itself reports its part number as ST3500630A. The Seagate website indicates that this is the 7200.10 generation disk which has different specifications than the 7200.9.

Sadly, what I got is the least desired disk of the three. If I had no other choice but the perpendicular storage generations, it would be better to get the second generation of the perpendicular storage technology: the 7200.11 disk.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars After 5 months, not a problem (Knock on Wood), April 12, 2008

By	Nikon131 "Nikon131" (Dallas, TX) - See all my reviews

I know there are alot of people who have trouble with Seagates on Amazon, but I went to Newegg for reviews before I purchased this HD. I have not had one problem with this drive in the five months I have had it.

My 500gb is used as my primary backup drive for my iTunes music, Photos, documents, movies... etc. I copy and delete off the drive almost constantly and am happy with it's performance. I have about 140 movies on it and 80gbs of music and am nowhere near full. Love the size of the drive. I have it in an external USB enclosure and have a second 250 I use to double-backup my photos. ((I love Seagate drives but as anything know it CAN fail)) With Hardrives so relatively cheap these days, get two of these and just backup.

I used to use DVD to back up but have decided to just buy a new HD every few years and retire the older drives. Seems the most reliable and fastest way. Good luck with your drive. Cheers.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Works great, very quiet, good throughput, October 22, 2007

By	R. Jessop (San Jose, CA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Not a lot to say, I bought it, bought a BYTECC enclosure for it(the USB / 1394 combo), formatted it and it works great plugged into my XP and WIN2000 computers. I get the standard FireWire "delayed write failure" on both computers, but I also get it on another drive with a completely different enclosure and chipset(it has nothing to do with the disk drive). I get full USB 2.0 speed transfer rates both ways and I get full 1394 transfer rate on read. These are a function of the enclosure and interface, but the drive keeps right up with it.

I have purchased three Seagate disk drives (two 2.5" laptop form factor, and this 3.5") in the past two years and I have been happy with all of them. It is worth a little extra money in my opinion for the quality so I just plain "don't have to worry about it".