Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 ST3200822A

Reviewed by: mchan103

Duration of ownership:

Strengths: None

Weaknesses: Bad quality, circuits can short out

Overall Evaluation: I just got this drive from Outpost.com and plugged it into my 1st computer as a slave to my Western Digital 120G hard drive. I turned it on and the lights on my computer flickered and triggered a fuse. I smelled something burning. It was my Western Digital drive. Now, my computer would freeze during bios bootstrap if the WD is plugged in. I thought that might have been an anomaly. So I decided to try it on my second computer. I unhooked all my other hard drives (UATA & SATA) and dvdrw drives. I set the seagate drive as the master via cable select. I inserted the EIDE1 master UATA ribbon and turned the computer on. Sparks came out of the Seagate drive for about 2 seconds. It triggered the power supply fuse and powered down. I pressed the power button on my computer, nothing. I waited about an hour and retried. The power came on. I plugged all my HD and DVDRW drives back. My second computer did not suffer any damages. Thank God. I have one 160G Barracuda and many Seagate Cheetah (SCSI) drives with no problems. I must got a lemon. Be careful!