Reviews for Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 300 GB Internal Hard DriveSATA/300 - 7200 rpm - 16 MB Buffer - 3.5" - MPN: ST3300622AS
$58.00 - $123.91
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oof_ow
- Apr 12, 2006
Great choice, but other alternatives are both faster...Strengths: Large platter size, relatively fast transfer speeds Weakness: Quality may have decreased since past Seagate models I upgraded from a Seagate 200GB 7200.7, being a Seagate and Western Digital fan I opted for their latest revision. I'm using this on a SATA-I computer using a special 6" SATA cable I ordered from Coolerguys. 90% of readers found this review helpful. Did you find it helpful or unhelpful? Top
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perrypopeye
- Feb 7, 2006
Fast and Sturdy Hard DriveStrengths: Fast, sturdy, easy to use. Weakness: None so far This is by far the best hard drive I have had so far. I use it as an external hard drive using an enclosure. I use this hard drive with the Coolmax aluminum enclosure. Of course, this drive warms up like most drives that are doing any work, but it does -not- get hot. This drive backs-up and stores my data very quickly. I use a USB 2.0 connection and the transfer of data is very quick. This drive has plenty of storage--300gb, with a great 16mb cache, at the latest 7200.9 RPM. I highly recommend this hard drive. 86% of readers found this review helpful. Did you find it helpful or unhelpful? Top
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studentadvocate
- Feb 28, 2006
Fast & Sturdy Internal Hard DriveStrengths: Fast, Sturdy, easy to use Weakness: None I love this hard drive. It transfers and stores data very fast. This drive is also well made and sturdy. This drive comes with the great Seagate 5yr warranty as well, that other manufactuers do not offer! This item was also reasonably priced at buy.com . I will buy Seagate hard drives in the future. Highly recommend. 67% of readers found this review helpful. Did you find it helpful or unhelpful? Top
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yaboii
- Jun 5, 2006
yaaaaaahooooooooooooooStrengths: fast reliable, has not broken yet Weakness: nothing is wrong with this this hard drive is great for porno no fails ever since i got it. it worked for everything i needed it for tons of storage more then i needed but other than that it is great 57% of readers found this review helpful. Did you find it helpful or unhelpful? TopCompare PricesAdvertisement  
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Own 5 of these drives, no problems
Strengths: Reliable
Weakness: None perceived
I've operated 5 of these drives for about 4 months and none has given any problems. If they should fail, the warranty is 5 years I believe. I haven't attempted to check them for speed but they appear adequately responsive for my needs.
I use them in a storage system for my small network. The storage system consists of a SilverSATA enclosure from Wiebetech containing two of these drives in a RAID-1 configuration (redundant configuration, so that the storage unit works even if one of the two drive fails). The two drives are designated as primary and secondary. The primary is always in place but the secondary gets swapped out at regular intervals according to a Tower of Hanoi disk rotation scheme to create backup copies (the Wiebetech unit clones the primary to the newly inserted drive every time I do a swap).
For myapplication, the key requirement is reliability and so far this drive has not let me down.
I am currently planning to buy a couple more drives of the same type.
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