Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 ST3200822A

• Reviewed by: pecorbit

  Strengths: Fast, dependable and inexpensive

  Weaknesses: None

  Overall: After six months, going strong, has never experienced a glitch! As good as any hard drive and cost much less than many others! The drive has easy to read jumper settings and auto recognized on boot.

• Reviewed by: mchan103

  Strengths: None

  Weaknesses: Bad quality, circuits can short out

  Overall: 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!

• Reviewed by: asokolov

  Strengths: Quiet, reliable

  Weaknesses: none

  Overall: I have 4 of them in my file server. All work well 24/7 for 4 month. They are faster then WD drives and not so hot. Rotating parts are typically well balanced, no noticeable vibration in a contrast to WD drives. I recommend those drives for server use.

• Reviewed by: rgutie

  Strengths: Fast, quiet, large capacity for price, great file transfer program

  Weaknesses: None, so far

  Overall: I purchased this from Outpost for $69 after $50 MIR, and installed it on my Dimension 4600 (it replaced an 80gb drive by Seagate) and I was pleasantly surprised to find that for certain tasks like DVR recording, video processing files, and DVD burning, the performance quadrupled. For example, it used to take about 1 to 2 hours for Nerovission express to process the tv shows I recorded using BeyondTV, and now it takes less than 1/2 an hour. The processing increased from about 1000 kbs to over 4000 kbs. All thanks to the upgrade. I don't know how it works, but I am very happy with this drive. Also, I received very quick and clear support from Seagate when transfering my files from the old drive to the new one, OS and all.

• Reviewed by: monkey2003

  Strengths: High quality, huge storage capacity.

  Weaknesses: None

  Overall: The driver provides huge flawless storage capacity. Quiet and smooth indexing, running and writing. Fast data accessing, easy setup and powerful software. Surely the best choice for movie storage and gaming.