Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 750GB

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 750GB

Barracuda 7200.10 750GB Review, by Melissa J. Perenson May 17, 2006

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• Reviewed by: veey

  Strengths: Huge capacity, very quiet, good speed, 16 MB cache, 5 years warranty, installation software.

  Weaknesses: None

  Overall: I got it a month ago as a replacement for my 250MB Seagate which was running out of space. Every time HDD replacement is a big deal. And the bigger size your old hard drive is the more time it takes. You need to partition new drive, copy all data and take care of permissions for the users. I have 4 partitions and multi user configuration so I expected to spend few evenings with the replacement. Fortunately the disk comes with Disk Wizard which is actually a piece of software from Acronis. Just run it, adjust settings, shutdown your PC, connect your new drive and power up your computer again. The software copies all the data with all the permissions resizing your old partitions to the new size according the settings you specified before. Bingo! Now just remove your old drive and boot from the new one instead. Of course you need to take care of jumpers (Master/Slave/CS) on the new hard drive or you should connect your new drive to the jack you used for your old one if you use CS (cable selection) mode. Alternatively you can change boot order in the BIOS if it has an option to switch boot from master to slave.

• Reviewed by: deshwasi

  Strengths: large capacity. excellent warranty

  Weaknesses: none

  Overall: This is a large capacity drive (750GB) from Seagate and is perfect for using as a media server internally or in a case. lotsa movies, music etc can be stored on this. backed by the excellent 5-yr warranty, you cant go wrong with this. it is the older PATA kind of drive.

• Reviewed by: Reviewer234

  Strengths: Cool, quiet operation.

  Weaknesses: None.

  Overall: Remarkably cool. The operating vibration is lower than a SATA drive of the same capacity made by a major competitor. I have been using this drive every day for heavy video editing and recording, with no problems whatsoever. Go Seagate!

• Reviewed by: gtsc0obydo0

  Strengths: Huge capacity, Seagate 5 year warranty, 16MB cache, PATA (yes, most people want SATA these days, but I have an old PC).

  Weaknesses: Huge capacity (a little nervous that I'll lose a lot of data), anti-static bag sealed with "The content was made in China" sticker.

  Overall: So far this drive is working great. I currently have three HDDs in, and had to remove my CD drive so I could transfer all my data from my old drive to this new one. Thus, I wasn't able to use the included software. Windows XP Pro recognized there was a new drive, but I used PartitionMagic to partition the drive. Only on its first day, but it works flawlessly. Seagate has, for the most part, been one of the best drive manufacturers out there, but this is my first drive with them. I intend to use this drive for 5+ years, so it is great to have that long of a warranty. Also, the 16 MB cache helps keep data transfer speeds high. I was a little nervous, since I read other reviews on similar items that indicated these drives that were sealed with a "made in China" sticker could have been DOA, but I have not had any problems yet.

• Reviewed by: Dual02

  Strengths: Huge capacity, speed, reliability

  Weaknesses: None known at this point

  Overall: This appears to be a flawless device. I have two online and am adding a third. Quiet, fast, capacious, reliable. Seagate, of course, has an excellent reputation for quality, so I'm not really worried on that count.