Aug 07
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 (Perpendicular Recording) ST3750640AS
750 GB
7200 RPM
16MB Cache
SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM
$209.99
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Pros: High capacity, perpendicular recording makes for faster seek times and less moving parts to fail, huge 16MB cache makes for a nocicable difference even moving from a 8MB cache drive, 5 year standard warranty. The intergrated features, like NCC and adaptive fly height and clean sweep, all help it.
Cons: Pricey
August 7th, 2007 at 7:57 am
There isn’t a 1TB drive yet. There is one though by LaCiel which cost xxxx bucks. 2) For a 750GB hdd, isn’t the smartest idea for a booting hdd. Use it for storage. 3) Raid 0 is nothing. No one cares about Raid 0. So stop stop saying… I run these hdd in Raio 0… no one cares.
August 7th, 2007 at 7:58 am
75 cents a Gig is an good ammount if you A.) want this capacity in a single drive. B.) want to max out potential Think of it this way if you have 4 HD slots in your computer you can go the cheaper route of 250GB drives and max out at 1TB or you purchase 4 of these 3TB. or if you Max out the drives inyour computer already it doesn’t make sense to remove a 300GB drive for 500GB where as gaining an extra 450GB by buying this makes more sense. People really complaining about price wouldn’t by high end parts anyways.
August 7th, 2007 at 7:58 am
What you should know is that this drive operates at 3.0gbits transfer speed. Most new mobo’s support this but older boards operate a 1.5gbits transfer speed. In order to get this to work with 1.5gb mobo’s, you will need to install a jumper on the SATA HDD on the first two pins. This is the tricky part as the drive does not come with ANY jumpers at all so you will have to find a SATA jumper as IDE jumpers are too big. Once you do that, you will be fine
August 7th, 2007 at 7:59 am
If you buy this drive you are going to go around telling people, “i have nearly 1TB of space.” I have a micro ATX board so i only have 2 PCI slots, and one of them has a firewire card in it so i don’t have much room for a raid controler, since my motherboard doesn’t have it built in. I shoot in RAW on my Canon EOS 1D Mark II, and shoot bikini girls for calendar work. 8mb raw + 3 mp jpeg times 50 pics times 12 girls = 6.6gb a day for each calendar. We are doing 9 calendars this summer which = 59.4GB … so as you can see if you shoow in RAW (as any professional should) it eats up a lot of space. I already have 284GB used up, and after this summer will have about another 80gb used. Not until BLUE-RAY 50GB DVD disks come out, 750gb hard drive isn’t enough for me. I’ll sell this one when the 1TB comes out and transfer the data to the new drive. I’ll deff order it.
August 7th, 2007 at 7:59 am
Don’t make the mistake I originally made. I mistakenly connected it to my SATA 150 on my mobo and let’s just say that they were not agreeable. hard drive was missing in action @ times and often caused the blue screen of death on XP. When i finally realized what I had done, I was definitely kicking myself for a bit…lol..
August 7th, 2007 at 8:01 am
I have 8 of these drives and use them in everything from my RAID 5 array to my xbox, to my portable storage drive. They have all proven very hardy and reliable. I have had one drive fail logically (none have failed due to hardware) on the array already, but I simply rebuilt the array and it came back in with no issues. If you aren’t familiar know this, you MUST use a 48 bit controller with this drive or you will destroy/corrupt the master boot record. DO NOT put it in one of your old external drive boxes that is not lba 48bit+ ready. The drive will appear to fail but really you killed it. I see people do that way too often!
August 7th, 2007 at 8:02 am
There are good drives and bad drives, Seagate means quality, ive still got an old 600MB (yes, megabyte) HD back from 1994 that still works like a top (albiet a bit slow, but that was 12 years ago), and i had a Maxtor (now bought out by Seagate so this wont really apply) that went out after a few months, not all drives, or anything for that matter, can be made 100% identical to eachother, there will be good and bad ones, thats what the Newegg 1 year warranty and 5 year manufacturer warranty is for. Also, if you get 2 of these intended for a RAID setup (in terms of RAID 1, RAID 0, and JBOD only), strping wont give you much improvement (if any at all) becasue of the huge cache, but having a 1.5TB drive would be schweet, and RAID 0 is always nice to have, split this drive into multiple partitions and use it to backup all your other drives. Newegg needs to start bundling a free IDE or SATA cable with these higher end drives. Newegg needs to remove the 1K char limit on these reviews!
August 7th, 2007 at 8:03 am
I own three other seagate HD’s that are in my case right now, a 120 gig IDE, two 250 gig SATAs, and now this 750 giger too. This drive does not make any more noise then the other drives!! This drive benchmarks just below the raptor, but the raptor sounds like a jet engine when it is being used, this does not make a sound compared the the 120mm fans on my case. Also, this drive after 4 hours of constant writing, was only 1 degree hotter than my idle drives. Excellent!
August 7th, 2007 at 8:03 am
The 7200.10 is currently the newest and best SATA Seagate drive. This “AS” drive is almost exactly the same they sell for servers — the only difference is that the “NS” has better vibration sensors. Does not normally matter in a desktop system — if you stack drives real close, then the only thing it would do is keep it from slowing down for a split second if a bad vibration occurs.
August 7th, 2007 at 8:04 am
Excellent drives. I use them in my Media Center 2005 system to store all my digital info. The noise and heat issue is most likely due to poor enclosures, I ran in cheap ATX case and could hear them echo, moved to a more expensive case with good fans, now my TIVO is makes more noise. Bought 2 Jun06 run as mirrored. (always buy drives in pairs since my BAD exp with WD and lost data) Used WD - do not recommend, moved to Maxtor, good drive, Now I’m a 100% Seagate fan. Buying a third drive today to backup all my stuff.
August 7th, 2007 at 8:05 am
If you get this and have the space in your case, I’d HIGHLY suggest getting a hard drive cooling fan. The Spire HD05010S1M4 Aluminum Hard Drive Cooler is $5 and now this baby runs at a lower temperature than my other three drives, one of which idles most of the time. the extra $5 is well worth the extended life of your drive — not all of us can afford to back up 750 gigs of data in the liklihood of a crash.