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Seagate ST3500641AS-RK Barracuda 7200.9 500GB SATA NCQ Internal Hard Drive

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(3.5 out of 5)

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38 of 39 people found the following review helpful:
(5 out of 5)

quiet, fast, reliable

Aug 19, 2006 - By Diane Wilson (Cary, NC USA)

I have two of these drives, one for video editing, one for a server. I've been completely satisfied with them; they were easy to install and their performance has been excellent. The SATA cables are a huge improvement over the old ATA ribbon cables, both for ease of installation and for improved airflow inside the computers. Windows recognizes SATA drives without a problem.

The disk comes with a CD that includes installation software (not needed, for me at least) and Seagate's BounceBack Express backup software.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
(3 out of 5)

Good performance but loud

May 21, 2007 - By Dipendra Bagchee

This drive works great and was very easy to install. I was a little disappointed with how loud it is when accessing data - it can compete with my iTunes music late at night. I have a feeling that most of the larger capacity drives will have these noise issues though. I still recommend it.

9 of 33 people found the following review helpful:
(1 out of 5)

Ear Piercing

Oct 8, 2006 - By Xoie Reviewy (USA)

The drive has great capacity and works fast enough. However, after seeking it makes a very high pitched noise. It is not even that loud and yet I can't stand it at all. Would not recommend based on this if you have any kind of sensitive hearing. Additionally the drive has no means to set it to run slower but with less noise unlike other drives.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
(4 out of 5)

Good Product

Jan 12, 2008 - By J. Spencer (Clearwater, FL)

Well, I purchased this for my HP Media Vault NAS device (which I love, and is the subject of a separate review), as one of the only drawbacks of the Media Vault design is that it has no redundacy.
Doing a search for the best price / performance ratio, I selected the Seagate Barracuda drive. Also, as a note to potential purchasers of a second drive for the Media Vault, there are a number of drives that it will not work with. Since there are no incompatibilites with the Seagate drives (seems to be mostly Western Digital drives that won't work), that also helped me pick this model. It works fine with the MV. You can choose to install it as an additional 500 GB of storage, for a total of 1 TB, or add it as a mirror as I did, giving you a total of 500 GB of redundant storage. Now I finally have the peace of mind to fill this sucker up and not worry that I'm going to lose my entire digital life in one hard drive crash. The odds are very low that both drives will fail at the same time. Also, and I didn't know this at the time of purchase, but this is the exact model that already shipped with my MV, so I now have a mirror of two of the exact model drive. Cool! If HP likes it, then it's good enough for me.

7 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
(3 out of 5)

OK, but loud

Nov 26, 2007 - By tony (Pearland, Texas USA)

Purchased this HD to get a little more space, and it does that, but man is this thing loud. That being said, it will probably last forever, like most Seagates I've owned.