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Huge Savings!
Seagate 250GB 7200RPM 8MB Buffer Hard Drive
This is the hard drive industry insiders are talking about and the monster HDD that garners top ratings in the computer magazines. See for yourself why the Seagate Barracuda is the high-performance hard drive you need for your system. Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 drives provide high-performance, highly reliable storage for PCs and advanced applications, backed up by an industry-leading five-year warranty. Their best-in-class combination of capacity, performance, and support ideally suit them for such applications as high-performance PCs, media PCs, ATA-based servers and RAIDs, and cost-effective network attached storage (NAS).
This Drive Holds
- 85 two-hour DVD-quality movies or
- 300 hours of VHS-quality video or
- 177 days of around-the-clock MP3 audio or
- 75,000 vivid digital photos or
- 427 action-packed games!
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- Industry’s highest areal density lowers cost per Gbyte of storage
- High capacity demand continues to increase as storage needs proliferate
- Increased demand coming from users requiring more storage
- capacity on their PCs and small businesses implementing RAID servers
- Various-sized enterprises are replacing tape with highcapacity
- HDDs in low-cost backup or fixed content applications
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jimc137 on
Aug 28, 2006
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The segate 250 GB drives are great, but Metal Gear enclosures suck. XP and 2000 do not recognize or even find the enclosure. Try a different enclosure. |
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kherman on
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I've had it in my system for a couple of months now.
Working great.
No complaints.
Very good value.
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kaybez on
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5 year warranty and outstanding price. Purchased with a hard drive enclosure as a backup device. Used for about a month now. Backed up the whole hard drive. Averaged about 1.8 minutes per gb which I blame on the program, not the hard drive. Still have plenty of room left. The 5 year warranty and the quiet operation sold me on the Seagate Brand. Next project is an internal drive upgrade. It will be a Seagate. Can't wait. |
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Joseph007 on
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This is the HDD I got in the bundle I purchased. Nothing to complain about at all, quiet (sor me), and does everything a hard drive should. |
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SCHMEBABE on
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I REALLY DO LIKE IT THE EASE OF USE IS BEYOND BELIEF THE ONLY PROBLEM I HAD WAS A SOUND OF THE DRIVE SPINNING SOMETHING RUBBING ON THE CASE OF THE EXTERNAL DRIVE CASE THE ULTRA,, A TAP TO THE SIDE IT WAS FINE |
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What You Should Know
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Need Screws For Your Hard Drive?
You know, not just any screw will do! For proper mounting, you must use the correct size screw. Fortunately, we have the right size screw for all hard drive needs. No matter what Hard Drive type, size, brand or application, we’ve got the screws, fasteners, punch-downs, crimps, and pins (as well as the tools you’ll need to install them properly!) Right here in our easy one-stop online shop. Hairpins and Duct Tape have no place inside your PC…get the job done right, by using the right screw for the Job!
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Important OEM Hard
Drive Note:
OEM hard drives do not include cables, software, or hardware (screws, brackets,
etc.). Full manufacturer's warranty applies.
Please Note:
In order to properly access the full capacity of an ATA interface hard drive
or partition larger than 137GB and properly support 48-bit logical block addressing,
Windows Vista , Windows XP Service Pack 1 or Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 are required. This
issue does not affect SCSI hard drives.
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Even The Best Hard Drives Die.
Do You Back Up?
Businesses of all sizes
are witnessing an explosion in the volume of data they hold. Whether it is
the result of the Internet, email, or increasingly heavy and media-rich
application software, there is a massive growth in the volume of data all
around. Conservative estimates place data growth at approximately 80% per
year. Data is increasingly being recognized as one of the real assets of a
company, and losing this data would cause severe damage to any organization.
Data loss can be very costly, particularly for
organizations in the small and medium business (SMB) market where the
difference between survival and closure can rest on the ability to recover
from a disaster. At the very least, critical data loss will have a financial
impact on companies of all sizes:
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Sales and marketing |
19 days |
$17,000 |
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Accounting |
21 days |
$19,000 |
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Engineering |
42 days |
$98,000 |
The financial impact on a company is a combination
of loss of business, low productivity, legal action, and the cost of
re-creating data. A study showed that the cost of re-creating just 20 MB of
data can be extensive!
Your best solution, is an external drive as a
backup. You can have multiple drives, and it is much easier restore
from a portable external drive, as opposed to CDs or DVDs.
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This Drive Includes
a PATA (Parallel ATA / EIDE ) Interface
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Enhanced integrated drive
electronics (EIDE), also called Parallel ATA (PATA), hard drives have
been the standard in the home computer industry for more than 10 years.
Some newer computer system motherboards don't have EIDE ports, but
a PCI EIDE controller card can be installed to add support for EIDE
drives. If you don't know whether your computer has EIDE ports on
the motherboard, refer to your computer or motherboard documentation
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Curious About The Differences Between Seria
ATA (SATA) and Parallel ATA (Ultra ATA)?
As time passed, increasing hard disk
transfer rate demands have forced the ATA interface specification to be
continuously updated, to avoid becoming the limiting factor in disk I/O
performance. As consumers embrace new usage models such as digital video
creation and editing, digital audio storage and playback, file sharing over
high-speed networks, and other data intensive applications, demands on hard
drive throughput have increased even further. To keep pace, the
storage interconnect had to evolve beyond the Ultra (Parallel) ATA
technology. The current approach is Serial ATA: a serial implementation of the
parallel Ultra ATA interface. With this paradigm shift in I/O design, the
roadmap of ATA was extended beyond the theoretical limits of the Ultra ATA bus.
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 Why Do I Have
Less Drive Space?
Your hard drive may show less space than the published specifications due to
a number of reasons.
- The way size is calculated and
displayed.
- Any "Partitions" on the disk will
change the total in a specific partition.
- Hidden files and folders decrease
available space.
- Compression increases the apparent
size, but not the physical size.
- Drives larger than the OS or Drivers
natively supports.
First, the definition of a megabytes
(or gigabytes) is a unit of data storage capacity measured in 1,048,576
bytes (or 1024KB). The larger the numbers, the more apparent the size
difference will be when listing the size as megabytes (or gigabytes) versus
bytes. Actually, both numbers are correct. The noticeable difference is due
to the 1024KB definition of a megabyte. This is why a 95.3GB hard drive can
also be listed as having 102 billion bytes of total space. Just think
of it as "round off" In the screen shot at right:
The first number is the total number of bytes,
the second number is based on the number of megabytes or gigabytes.
Second, some computers have a
non-DOS hard drive partition that is used for features such as Save to Disk,
Hibernation, or Recovery. This partition is not normally reported by the
operating system, although it can be viewed using a disk partition utility.
This is very common on desktops and laptops. NOTE:
Partition information will be created or
formatted automatically during initial system setup and a system recovery.
Third, by default, all system files
are hidden and cannot be seen. This may adversely affect the reporting of
available hard drive space. You can set your Folder Options so you view
system and hidden files and folders, but do be careful as changes to system
files can adversely affect your system.
Fourth, if you turn on Compression
for a drive, it will increase reported free space and used space, but since
compression is based upon the actual contents, this number is not fixed, but
will change as files are added or changed.
Fifth, older operating systems did
not support some of today's larger drives, so the total space reported may
be much smaller than the drive specifications.
It is also worth noting that bad sectors
are corrected by your operating system and can change the total drive space,
free space, or used space as well.
So as long as a drive is reporting a value
approximately close to the specification value, you can be comfortable that
you received the right drive and that you are getting to correct data
storage. Of course, tuning of your drive's partitions and options can
yield optimal values, but this is not something for the average user to
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A Look at Hard Drives
What you need to know before you buy; the inside scoop on what to look for in a hard drive. We reveal the hidden secrets about capacity, RPMs, buffer size and more!
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Issues With Your PC?
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60 months parts;
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