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| Brand: | Seagate |
| Item Height : | 25 millimetres |
| Item Width: | 10.5 centimetres |
| Hard Drive | |
| Hard Drive Size: | 500 GB |
Technical Details
- Barracuda desktop drives are produced using the most sophisticated manufacturing process in the industry, with a focus on environmental stewardship.
- Seagate AcuTrac™ technology enables new storage densities with accurate reading and writing to nano-sized tracks that are only 75 nanometers wide. That’s about 500 times smaller than the period at the end of this sentence.
- Count on Barracuda® drives to deliver the storage innovations that drive your costs down and your performance up. 7200 RPM performance–from 250GB all the way up to 3TB. OptiCache™ technology further exploits big 64MB cache sizes and improved micro processor capabilities. SATA 6Gb/s technology to further maximize performance.
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Seagate Barracuda 500GB Sata Int 3.5in 7200 RPM 16MB 6GB/S
Product Description
Barracuda drives feature fourth-generation Seagate perpendicular recording technology. Perpendicular recording is advanced technology pioneered and proven by Seagate to help you do more by storing data bits vertically greatly increasing data density on the disk. Increased data density means higher performance better reliability and lower costs per gigabyte of storage. Note: Seagate ships this drive in both 4K- and 512 byte sectors. SmartAlign technology is included on 4K sector drives. Both drives are functionally and physically equivalent.
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
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Bought to upgrade a PC with an overflowing 40GB system drive C:, this 500GB drive was chosen primarily because the manufacturer (Seagate) had the wisdom to produce and provide a free utility (DiscWizard, available from Seagate's website) which makes copying an old hard drive (any make) onto a new Seagate drive virtually a one-click operation for most people by using the 'disc cloning' tool included in that utility.
In the simplest mode, the tool prepares the destination disc for use, copies all existing partitions from the old drive onto the new, expanding them proportionally to fit the space available on the new drive and makes the new drive bootable. There's also a manual mode in DiscWizard which allows you to control the relative sizes of the disc partition(s) created on the new drive, so you can keep the 'recovery' partition the same size as it was and expand the C: drive to fill all the remaining space on the new drive.
My supplier supplied this drive to me as a bare drive with no instructions and no connecting leads - this is normal for an 'OEM' drive which is assumed to be being purchased by someone who knows what they are doing - but again, Seagate's website has good, clear instructions describing how to temporarily install the new drive alongside the old before swapping it into position as the new main drive.
I should point out that Seagate are not the only manufacturer who provide free disc cloning tools and advice for specific use with their own drives, but be aware that there are one or two who do not, so always check out the drive manufacturer's website before making a final decision about what to buy.
As to the Seagate Barracuda drive itself, it is very quiet and reasonably fast - very happy with it so far.
In the simplest mode, the tool prepares the destination disc for use, copies all existing partitions from the old drive onto the new, expanding them proportionally to fit the space available on the new drive and makes the new drive bootable. There's also a manual mode in DiscWizard which allows you to control the relative sizes of the disc partition(s) created on the new drive, so you can keep the 'recovery' partition the same size as it was and expand the C: drive to fill all the remaining space on the new drive.
My supplier supplied this drive to me as a bare drive with no instructions and no connecting leads - this is normal for an 'OEM' drive which is assumed to be being purchased by someone who knows what they are doing - but again, Seagate's website has good, clear instructions describing how to temporarily install the new drive alongside the old before swapping it into position as the new main drive.
I should point out that Seagate are not the only manufacturer who provide free disc cloning tools and advice for specific use with their own drives, but be aware that there are one or two who do not, so always check out the drive manufacturer's website before making a final decision about what to buy.
As to the Seagate Barracuda drive itself, it is very quiet and reasonably fast - very happy with it so far.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Amazon Verified Purchase
I've used seagate barracuda drives for many years.
Always found them totally reliable and virtually silent in operation.
Its been a few years since I last built a system (before sata came out), but I'm happy to say that Seagate still have what it takes with their barracuda drives.
Always found them totally reliable and virtually silent in operation.
Its been a few years since I last built a system (before sata came out), but I'm happy to say that Seagate still have what it takes with their barracuda drives.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
nice quality product, delivered on time, i have a similar older model hd in another system which has been great so i was happy to get newest model
Most Recent Customer Reviews
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When taking out of the box it was just brown paper as I would think it should come in bubble wrap? To ensure product wasn't screwed up!!. Read more
Published 16 days ago by Matt
Oh Dear!! Why so poorly packed?
The only good thing was that the HDD arrived quickly - after that it was down hill.
Installed the HDD and my PC did not recognize it at first. Read more
Installed the HDD and my PC did not recognize it at first. Read more
Published 17 days ago by Tentpeg
It's OEM and comes without...
The advert doesn't say this is an OEM product. This should be stated to be on the right side of...
It doesn't come with Seagate packaging but bubble wrap, no cables or any... Read more
It doesn't come with Seagate packaging but bubble wrap, no cables or any... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Tatty Mac
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ordered on sunday arrived on thursday. i agree with Ben's post, its a good drive thought the packaging was a big no no for me. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Dave
Product works, but packaging was terrible.
The product works absolutely fine, it's currently working in my computer as I type this. However the packaging that it arrived in was absolutely disgraceful - there was no where... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Ben
SATA 3 HDD - quick and quiet.
On my latest build, I toyed with the idea of installing one of the new SSD drives against installing a medium-capacity SATA 3 HDD as the primary drive, with a 1TB HDD as the major... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Scorpio
much better
had this a few weeks now been very good a lot better than my old hitachi sata hard drive, infact a lot quicker.
Published 4 months ago by keith.chester
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I bought two of these to use in a caddy system. No problem setting up and they work well with the system disk. A good price for a reasonable product.
Published 7 months ago by bill00112
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