Customer Reviews

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

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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.

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.

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".

The HD was easy to install. I plopped in my XP CD and the installation went smooth. I've owned this HD for at least 3 months now and I haven't encountered any problems with it yet. This is the second Seagate drive I've purchased in my lifetime - the first drive I bought many years ago was a 120gb barracuda which gave me problems within 3 months. Hopefully this drive won't fail on me anytime soon.

These drives replaced (4) 250GB drives in a Buffalo server. The installation went smoothly and now only time will tell...

Product is quiet, fast and a great deal. I would highly recommend it.

I used this in an external enclosure and it's typical Seagate. It does the job well and when I bought it, the price was also good.

I work with Apples a lot and unlike some others, I've never had a problem with Seagate in the Apples. Note that's more common with SATA drives than ATA.

I purchased this with the hopes that I could use it with USBExtreme to rip all my PS2 games to a HD to help 'clean up' my "man's room" so that they're not 60 PS2 game boxes out in the open. It first didn't work after spending many many hours ripping all the PS2 games to the HD. I took a week off and re-read the instructions and realized I needed to format it twice (once using the mgmnt tools in XP, the second time w/a file from USBExtreme). After I did this it WORKED! Mind you, since it didn't work the first time that doesn't mean anything was wrong with the drive - it was 'user error'. So as far as using it IN a computer for backing-up data etc - I have no comment - but for ripping PS2 games on a drive this size using USBExtreme - it works.

I purchased this product and used it for a couple months... and the click of death happened.

I UPS'ed it to the Seagate specified RMA center and received UPS confirmation that someone signed for it at their reps facility.

Unfortunately whoever signed for it misplaced it and SEAGATE, is stalling on sending me a replacement drive. The drive was received 11 days ago and they can't get any confirmation from their shipping and receiving dept.

I didn't purchase this from amazon, but wish I hadn't purchased it from anyone else either.

SEAGATE customer service is the worst, a five year guarantee attracted me to seagate, but it doesn't appear to be worth much.

no problem, it's a spare so I haven't tried it yet but it appears brand new (like it should be) and the shipping was pronto. I would buy from them again