Home > Consumer Reviews > Seagate Barracuda 750 GB SATA 3.5 Inch 7200 RPM Version 12 Desktop Internal Hard Drive ST3750528AS

I have measured read and write speeds of well over 100 MB/sec on the outer tracks of this drive. This is the fastest drive I have ever seen, and I have 10000 RPM SCSI drives. The price is right, too. This is an ideal drive for RAID. It is low profile and low power so you can cram them into your case without worry of overheating.

This is not a bad drive at all. the seek time is fast and it does not seem to overheat. the only think that i dont like is the fact that the drive is fairly loud when it is starting up, while searching, and writing. i have the 1 TB model though and it may be louder than the 500 GB

A disk drive to me is one of those things that don't get much notice unless they don't work well. I don't notice this one. It works well and seems to be fairly fast. It's quiet. It has a SATA connection. It has more space than most people could reasonably use.

Since I have little interest in running tests to determine actual figures for maximum burst speed and so on that's about all I can say and all I care about. Well, I care about reliability too, but how can I comment on that at this early stage? I have to trust Seagate's reputation for that - and take backups!

You get a heck of a lot of space for a very reasonable price with this drive. If I was building another machine in the near future I'd certainly buy another.

Failed after 800 hours of use... One minute it was fine the next it caused a blue screen failure and then all the LBA's were bad. Used every tool avail no luck. Have never had a drive fail so quickly. I'd stay away based on the 7200.11 fiasco! 7200.12 doesn't seem to be a lot better!

Update: received new drive from Seagate, swapped circuit board just to see if the failure was electrical or mechanical. Turns out its a mechanical failure which in my mind makes the failure worse!

I just received this drive, and I'm very happy with it. I wouldn't call it noisy, but there are quieter drives out there, but it's a nice compromise between performance and quiet for a system drive, and the noise isn't obtrusive. The drive runs very quiet as well. Temps are right around 30C in my Antec Fusion Remote Max. The drive is in a separate compartment with the PSU, so only receives a bit a passive cooling from the PSU fan and the air that gets drawn through the vent underneath the drive. My previous drive was a Seagate 7200.9 300GB, and it was significantly louder and ran hotter (about 47-50C in the same location).

Overall I'd say this is a great value drive for a mid-level system.