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Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 500GB Hard Drive

Barracuda 7200.9 500GB Hard Drive

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Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 500GB Hard Drive

  • Reviewed by: Swedine

    10-10-09

    Duration of ownership: 10 Days

    Strengths: Alot faster than my original!

    Weaknesses:I havent found one yet.

    Overall Evaluation: This product has went past my exspectations, my old hard drive is nothing comapred to this one, Its fast, no lockups, easy installation. I am able to store more than 3 times as much as my old one.

  • Reviewed by: tonytang

    05-11-06

    Duration of ownership:

    Strengths: 5-year warranty (longest in the industry), SATA-2 NCQ, Quiet

    Weaknesses:SATA-2 mode not compatible with some Mac G5 systems (workaround available)

    Overall Evaluation: I've owned Western Digital, Maxtor, and Seagate drives, and I've stuck to Seagate drives for the last 6 years from the excellent experience I've had with them. The 5-year warranty is definitely a huge plus and mark of confidence from the manufacturer that these are the best drives in the industry. Not only that, they are perhaps the quietest operating drives in the industry. I use them exclusively in a studio environment.The only drawback is that I ran into an incompatibility issue between a Power Mac G5 with a regular non SATA-2 controller. It did not recognize the drive at first. After some Googling and a call to Seagate, I was able to obtain a PC-based utility that would disable NCQ (Native Command Queueing) in the drive that is added in the SATA-2 spec. After disabling this feature through the PC-utility, I was able to install the drive back in the Power Mac G5 and use it as a regular SATA drive. The disabled feature can be re-enabled at a later time using the same PC-utility.

  • Reviewed by: SDTechDeals

    05-02-06

    Duration of ownership: 3 Weeks

    Strengths: Tons of storage space; 16MB Cache; SATAII; 300gbps; quiet; 5-year warranty

    Weaknesses:Expensive; not preformatted; no cables or screws included

    Overall Evaluation: I have been a Seagate fan for about six-months now, previously using Western Digital. I have had one RMA with a drive, and it was fairly painless. In less than two weeks, they sent me a 400GB drive as a replacement for my 300GB drive! I just love the fact that they have a 5-year warranty! Indicates to me that they stand behind their product.I use this to host DVDs & MP3s that I have ripped, so speed is not really an issue. While this unit comes with a 16mb cache & is 300gbps SATA, I have absolutely no idea whether it is giving me any performance advantage! I'm not a performance benchmarks kind of guy, so if you want to know that, read elsewhere! ;-) Perhaps if it was your main C: drive, the 16mb cache might make sense. It sits in an external enclosure, right on my desk, and its as quiet as can be! Only downside to this setup is that the drive does not come preformatted, so I had to install it in my system first, then format it, then put it in the enclosure. Perhaps the Seatools would have found the USB drive, but I didn't check that first...doh!While you can buy two 300gb drive for less than this single drive, that would not have worked for my setup, so I had to pay more per GB. Usually the way it works for a single vs multiple drive configuration.Since this is an OEM drive, it does not come with any cables or screws, so hopefully you power supply has SATA power connectors and you motherboard already has some SATA cables. If not, you'll have to pick these up.

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