Seagate ST3500641AS-RK Barracuda 500 GB SATA NCQ Internal Hard Drive
The Seagate ST3500641AS 500GB Internal SATA Hard Drive has the advanced features and blazing performance you need, for better storage and memory performance. It's exceptionally easy to use and gives you better storage for your film, video and audio files - and even the latest memory-intensive games. DiscWizard software simplifies installation SATA connection Includes cable, disc utility CD, quick-installation guide and mounting screws Operating Systems - Windows 98SE, NT, Me, 2000 and XP
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Seagate ST3500641AS-RK Barracuda 500 GB SATA NCQ Internal Hard Drive Reviews
The software provided by Seagate is good but didn't help me with transferring my system from my old drive to the new drive. The drive comes with a 5 year warranty, something the competition doesn't come close to. The drive is a bit noisy, but not enough to bother this guy. I installed this drive three weeks ago and so far so good. This is an excellent drive for storing your movies and mp3 files. The software does not support dynamic disks.
PN on smaller drive's label was 98J146 - 308 and it was called a Barracuda 7200.10. All four of the boxes had PN: 98D648 - 550 on the box. 7/3/08 Received replacement drive and it was Barracuda 7200.11 9BX154 - 303. Bought four of these to use in a RAID. Returned it and will check the replacement when it arrives. Larger drives were Barracuda 7200.11 9BX154 - 303 on the drive label. When I installed one of the drives it was smaller than the others.
In fact, I have never really had a problem with any Seagate items that I have bought and always they are a decent price. I am sure that they are not the most amazing or consistent company on the planet and that is too bad for the customers that got bum hard drives, but in my experience, I have not had an issue at all. I got one of these drives, for about 30 bucks cheaper than Amazon has it here, and it is a bit loud, but other than that, not a single problem at all. I would recommend this and reading the reviews of other people saying that their's failed, they is too bad.
Installing the hardware was easy enough as all cables were included. I installed the Seagate 500Gb SATA using Windows XP Pro x64. The XP installer didn't recognize the drive, so I added an older 80Gb ATA drive and installed XP on that. From there, I ran the Seagate installer disc, and voila, the Seagate drive showed up. I'm still putting my new system through its paces, so we'll see how it fares as I add software.
Now some applications are freezing. Opening a browser or simply exploring the C drive is deafening. I'm returning this. It's very difficult to concentrate on editing with this thing screaming after every thing I do. I can't believe how loud this drive is.
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