Customer Reviews

Seagate ST3750640AS Barracuda 750 GB SATA 3.0GB/s Internal Hard Drive

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I've had my Seagate ST3750640AS for one year now and it has done a great job. The drive is very fast and responsive.

The only minor complaint I would have is that it did cause my computer to vibrate a bit when spinning up. I just put a piece of plywood under my computer so it didn't sit on the carpet and all was well.

I don't know what the other complaints are about. I researched the drive before buying and it had really good benchmarks. Granted, it had just come out when I purchased it though. Perhaps he got a bum unit or bought one from a bum vendor.

Mine's been good to me!

UPDATE: 3 years later and the drive is still running well. I often create/delete large video files and it has never given me a problem. fyi, it is used in a Mac Pro.

Here's the deal: I have been building computers since the early 80's. I even built the first file server in my University department as a grad student. That server ran for twelve years before being retired.

In 30 years I have had three hard drives go bad. One was an old Western Digital drive that died in the mid 90's after running for over 6 years in two different machines. The other two bad drives were in the last year. One was a Maxtor, sold by Seagate oddly I have two pre-Seagate Maxtors in a RAID array and they are clipping along nicely). The other was the drive in this advertizement. I have Hitachi's, and Western Digitals running in 3 media centers and two desktops. All are older than the two bad Seagates and all are still performing flawlessly.

For the China bashers, get a life and look at the drives you are recommending. Hitachi, WD and IBM all import their drives from China. I suspect they are not alone. And before you start, I am not of Asian descent.

Works as advertised. Plug-N-Play installation (after purchase of a SATA cable). Used this drive to clone my existing hard drive (it is the identical model in my HP) for backup purposes.

Not much to say except that I'm happy I got it. Arrived quickly and well packaged. Worked as promised and the price was great. I would buy from this vendor again.

Using 15 of these in a drive array. Over the course of 1.5 years we have had to replace two. These are being used in a high demand array for backup that is running 24x7x365, so 2 out of 15 in 1.5 years isn't too bad. Had no problems sending the two drives in for RMA direct to seagate either. Running 4 months so far with no failures as well.

The first thing you'll notice when you unpack this drive is the improper grammar used on the packaging, which intends to state the contents were made in China.

The second thing you'll notice is the unusual machine marks on the side of the drive, reminiscent of a product slapped together in a third world country.

Even without plugging the drive in, you know you're in trouble by this point. But you hope that you're not like everyone else whose written a bad review of the product (see other products listings for the same product). Maybe I'll be different and mine will work.

After you plug it in, it works and you breathe a sigh of relief. I did for all of 3 1/2 minutes. Then mine died. It won't power up again, either in the external drive case or the internal slot in my Dell.

You'll be sorry if you buy this drive. You won't be different. You'll own a brick like the rest of us.

Hey, but some people only learn by experience (myself included).

Buy the HITACHI Deskstar 750GB (Model 7K1000 HDS721075KLA330 (0A35154)). You can find it cheaper than the Seagate. It also runs quieter and cooler than the Seagate, it's made in Thailand (where many legitimate OEMs make their drives) and not China, the outside case appears to be better machined, and it doesn't stop working after 4 minutes.