Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1TB Hard Drive
Combining proven components, state-of-the-art technology and expertise in volume manufacturing, the Seagate® Barracuda 7200.11 drive—the eleventh generation of this award-winning desktop hard drive family—delivers up to 1 TB of reliable digital storage.
Seagate has a proven record of delivering reliable products in volume, and the new Barracuda 7200.11 family continues the tradition. Designed with four platters that use the highest areal density available in volume shipping along with second-generation Seagate PMR technology, the Barracuda 7200.11 drive offers the ideal combination of world-class technology and low total cost of ownership.
Capacities up to 1 TB mean that users no longer need to forego storing any digital content, including high-definition video, large multimedia projects and data-heavy CAD files. Highly leveraged from award-winning PMR technology, the Barracuda 7200.11 drive increases capacity per disk without increasing platter or head count. At the same time, it enhances reliability by decreasing internal components and increasing magnetic stability at high areal densities.
This Drive Holds
424 two-hour DVD-quality movies or
1500 hours of VHS-quality video or
880 days of around-the-clock MP3 audio or
372,500 vivid digital photos or
2132 action-packed games!
Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit DSP OEM DVD
Windows Vista Ultimate is the most comprehensive edition of Windows Vista. It is the first operating system that combines all of the advanced infrastructure features of a business-focused operating system, all of the management and efficiency features of a mobility-focused operating system, and all of the digital entertainment features of a consumer-focused operating system. For the person who wants one operating system that is great for working from home, working on the road, and for entertainment, Windows Vista Ultimate is the operating system that lets you have it all.
This Bundle Includes
Seagate
Barracuda 7200.11 1TB Hard Drive Combining proven components, state-of-the-art technology and expertise
in volume manufacturing, the Seagate® Barracuda 7200.11 drive—the
eleventh generation of this award-winning desktop hard drive family—delivers
up to 1 TB of reliable digital storage.
Windows
Vista Ultimate 64-bit DSP OEM DVD Windows Vista Ultimate is the most comprehensive edition of Windows
Vista. It is the first operating system that combines all of the advanced
infrastructure features of a business-focused operating system.
Breakthrough Security Windows Vista is engineered to be the most secure version of Windows yet. The new features in Windows Vista help to give you the control and confidence you need to get the most out of your PC. Windows Vista contains a number of new security features that, taken together, are designed to make Windows Vista-based PCs more secure and your online experiences safer. The improvements are designed to help you have:
- A PC protected from viruses, worms, spyware, and other potentially unwanted software - A safer online experience for you and your family - An understanding of when your PC is unsafe, and the control and guidance to help improve your security
Powerful Search & Organization Windows Vista gives you more flexibility when you search and organize your files.
New controls, like the Instant Search box and Enhanced Column Headers, make it simple for you to manage large amounts of on-screen data any way you want. With Windows Vista, you no longer have to remember where you store every file. Instead, to find a file, you need to only remember something about it, such as a word contained within a document, the artist of a song, or the date a picture was taken.
Powerful, integrated desktop search capabilities help you find just about anything on your computer quickly, without having to search for it by browsing through folders. For example, in the new Start Menu, it is as simple as typing a word, a phrase, a property, or any part of a file name into the embedded Instant Search box to instantly find the file that you want.
Enhanced and Enriched Windows Internet Explorer 7 Windows Vista enhances the Internet Explorer experience. The upcoming release of Internet Explorer 7 not only adds important new security and privacy features, but also makes everyday tasks easier through features such as tabbed browsing, inline search, and shrink-to-fit printing. Internet Explorer 7 also provides new tools to give you direct access to information you want, with built-in support for web feeds known as Really Simple Syndication (RSS). RSS is a technology you can use to have information sent to you, so you don't have to look for it. Through RSS subscriptions, you can automatically receive feeds (lists) of headlines from Internet sites. Internet Explorer 7 discovers these feeds on sites and allows you to preview and subscribe to them. Once you subscribe, Internet Explorer 7 systematically consolidates headlines from each feed into one list. This lets you quickly browse new information from various sites without having to visit each site separately.
Windows Sidebar and Gadgets As you use your computer to access more information, perform more tasks, and interact with more software applications, you increasingly face information overload. You open a web browser just to check the weather, open an application to view your calendar, and open a calculator program to simply add numbers. You need simple, specialized, and lightweight mini-applications that put information and tasks at your fingertips—no matter what you're doing.
Windows Sidebar boosts your personal productivity by providing instant access to gadgets—a wide variety of engaging, easy-to-use, and customizable mini-applications that offer information at a glance and provide easy access to frequently used tools.
Spectacular Performance Windows Vista is designed to help make you more productive as you work with your PC throughout the day with new features like Sleep, Windows SuperFetch, Windows ReadyBoost, and Windows ReadyDrive.
Windows SuperFetch helps manage memory to get the most out of available RAM while Windows ReadyBoost helps make PCs more responsive by using flash memory devices (like USB thumb drives) to boost performance. Windows ReadyDrive takes advantage of new hybrid hard disks—hard disks with integrated flash memory—to help improve battery life, performance, and reliability. With Windows Vista, your system is ready when you are.
Valuable Backup Innovations Windows Vista provides valuable new innovations to help ensure you never lose information that is important to you. Windows Vista offers multiple layers of backup and restore protection from hardware failure, user error, or other issues. These innovations include system restore enhancements, a new feature called Windows Backup, and a related feature: Previous Versions, based on the Volume Shadow Copy technology which was first introduced with the Windows Server product family. These features are presented in a single, unified Windows Backup and Restore Center.
Enhanced Networking Features Windows Vista includes new networking features that make your network easier to set up, easier to use, and more secure and reliable. Connect wirelessly to your company's network, share an Internet connection and printers, copy files between computers, or enjoy your favorite entertainment around your home. Whether at home, a small business, or a large enterprise, Windows Vista makes connectivity easier so you can focus on what matters to you. Windows Vista puts you in control of your network experience with the Network Center—the central place for all your networking needs. Network Center informs you about the network your computer is connected to and verifies whether it can successfully reach the Internet. It even presents this information in a summary in the Network Map so you can immediately see your connectivity to the network and Internet. If a PC on the network loses Internet connectivity, you can graphically see that the link is down, and then use Network Diagnostics to help determine the cause of the problem and get a suggestion for a solution.
Windows SideShow If you use a laptop computer, you know that starting up your laptop just to check a message or find an address or phone number isn’t always practical. Windows Vista SideShow technology enables laptop manufacturers to include a secondary or auxiliary display in future laptop designs.
This display can be used to easily view the critical information you need, whether the laptop is on, off, or in sleep mode. The convenience provided by these auxiliary displays will save time and battery life by allowing you to quickly view meeting schedules, phone numbers, addresses, and recent e-mail messages without having to start up your laptop.
Speech Recognition Speech Recognition in Windows Vista empowers you to interact with your computer by voice. It allows you to significantly limit your use of mouse and keyboard while maintaining or increasing productivity. You can dictate documents and e-mail messages in mainstream applications, fill out forms on the web using voice commands, and seamlessly manage Windows Vista and applications by saying what you see. Speech Recognition is fully integrated into Windows Vista and is built on top of the latest Microsoft speech technologies. It has unparalleled voice recognition accuracy that improves with use as it adapts to your speaking style and vocabulary. Speech Recognition supports multiple languages and includes a new human-sounding speech synthesizer.
Help and Feedback With a number of features to streamline problem resolution, Windows Vista is designed to provide better self-help and improve centralized tools for support professionals.
Windows Vista itself detects, diagnoses, and helps you respond to common problems. But when incidents that require support do occur, Windows Vista provides centralized support tools and resources to quickly diagnose and resolve issues.
Remote Assistance With Remote Assistance, you can get help from a support professional or other trusted user, even if that person is in a remote location. With your permission, Remote Assistance allows a trusted helper to share control of your computer and help you resolve issues. In Windows Vista, Remote Assistance is greatly enhanced, featuring faster performance and the ability to assist users whether they are at home, on the road, or at a remote location. Remote Assistance is now a standalone application, providing markedly faster startup and connectivity, and has been optimized to use less network bandwidth.
Windows Update Windows Update helps to keep your computer up to date and more secure by providing Microsoft Windows Vista software updates. You can configure Windows Update to automatically download and install updates for you. You can essentially “set it and forget it.” In Windows Vista, the capabilities of Windows Update are extended beyond the features available in Windows XP and make updating easier and less disruptive.
Vista at Home… With Windows Vista, you’ll enter an astonishing new world of entertainment possibilities in your home, with exciting new ways to preserve and enjoy digital memories and music.
Experience Memories Windows Vista lets you handle your digital memories in a truly intuitive way. It's the center for your digital memories, where you can import your pictures, organize and find them, make basic corrections, and save them to CD or DVD. It's also your photo gallery, with a virtually endless number of photo albums and a variety of ways to share pictures with your friends and family.
With Windows Vista, your photos and the tools you need are all in one place. Whether you're working with photos or video, editing or e-mailing your pictures, or putting together a slide show for your next party, you will have the tools to get it done—and more—quickly and easily. With Windows Vista you can import your camera to your computer, find your pictures easily and share them with friends and family with e-mail, prints or even slideshows on your TV.
Experience Music the Way You Want it To Be. With Windows Vista, your entire music collection creates the soundtrack to your life. Use Windows Media Player 11 to enjoy a seamless connection to your portable devices, satisfy a new musical URGE, and keep your growing digital music collection organized. Or really crank things up and change the way you see and listen to your music by soaking it all in with Windows Media Center in Windows Vista and your Xbox 360.
Windows Vista is digital music in a whole new way…yours.
Vista For Business…
Windows Vista Business was created to meet the computing needs of small business owners like you. With tools that help you manage your IT needs, you can focus on what's truly important-maintaining and growing your business.
Experience Unique Data Backup and Security Automatic data backup capabilities and powerful security features are just a couple of the robust tools you'll come to depend on so you can focus your mind on business issues, not technology issues. Best of all, Windows Vista Business doesn't require any special technology expertise. Whether you're working on critical business applications, updating important customer information, or migrating to a new PC, you'll have peace of mind knowing that your data is backed up and protected. Vista offers ingenious new ways to back up data and restore files and setting. And it provides centralized security features to help you manage, monitor and configure security-related preferences and settings from a single location.
Experience Productive Sales & Marketing Tools In business, the tools you use every day to support your sales and marketing efforts are crucial. You have a lot to do—generate new business while you keep your current business, maintain up-to-date sales information, keep your essential records safe, build a tight connection with your customers and partners, and handle a range of customer interactions—whenever the need arises and no matter where you are.
Windows Vista Business helps you meet your sales and marketing goals by helping you stay connected to your customers and partners and increases your sales and marketing team’s productivity with an improved user interface design that makes it easy for you to find what you need fast. Additionally, Vista Business deploys the latest technologies to help keep your data secure and your computers running smoothly. Windows Vista Business provides the tools to help you work the way you want to, with more flexible ways to access your information. Vista Business can keep you in tune with your business and a step ahead of the competition.
Windows Vista Home Basic is the edition of Windows for users with the most basic computing needs. The features in Windows Vista Home Basic also form the foundation of all of the other editions of Windows Vista, including Windows Vista Home Premium and Windows Vista Ultimate.
Minimum System Requirements 1GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor; 1GB system memory; a graphics processor that runs Windows Aero; 128MB of graphics memory; 40GB of hard drive capacity with 15GB free space; DVD-ROM Drive; Audio output capacity; Internet Access capability.
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1TB Hard Drive
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The Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1TB Hard Drive with Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit DSP OEM DVD bundle is combining two giants in one money-saving package. You can now have 1 TB of storage space and a state-of-the-art business operating system with features geared towards enhanced productivity. With these two combined, the word enormous is an understatement.
The word terabyte (TB) translates to one thing – gigantic. The Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 hard drive has a storage capacity of a massive 1 TB which is equal to 1000 GB. If you still can’t picture that, let’s just say that in a 1TB hard disk, you can fit 424 two-hour DVD-quality movies or 1500 hours of VHS-quality video or 880 days of around-the-clock MP3 audio or 372,500 vivid digital photos or 2132 action-packed games!
This is a highly advanced HDD, and it is not just because of its capacity. It operates on a modern second generation perpendicular recording mechanism and has an immense 32 MB of cache space. This also runs with SATA data transfer rates of up to 3000 Mb per second and with a spindle speed of 7200 revolutions per minute.
Those are just the numbers. In layman’s term, this means that the Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 can smoothly support multiple demanding applications and tasks. Video editors and professional photographers will love the extra large storage space that this HDD offers, because of the fact that video editing and photo manipulation demands extra space on your computer.
This Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1TB Hard Drive is bundled by the Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit DSP OEM DVD operating system. This highly comprehensive edition of Windows Vista OS offers you and your business superior security and easy user interface. Vista Ultimate unites all of the advanced infrastructure features of a business-focused OS.
Security-wise, Vista Ultimate protects your PC from worms, spyware, and other potentially unwanted software. This helps you guard your important files, which makes it highly recommended for you business PC. Also, online browsing is now safer with the safekeeping features of this OS.
Vista Ultimate’s user interface is simple and aesthetically pleasing. You don’t have to open various folders to run a program. The organizational quality of Vista Ultimate is extensive, ideal for corporate use where everything should be in order and controlled.
Putting these two together will be much more of a delight. The powerful tag team of the Barracuda 7200.11 1TB Hard Drive and Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit DSP OEM DVD is highly commendable since it allows smooth running programs and applications all throughout.
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!
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.
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:
Data type
Time to re-create 20 MB
Cost
Sales and marketing
19 days
$17,000
Accounting
21 days
$19,000
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.
Today's Backup Options
With ever increasing hard drive sizes, how do you protect your valuable
data? CDs are only 720+ MBs, and even DVDs are limited to a few
Gigabytes. So what do you do to back up hundreds of Gigabytes? Here
are some great and inexpensive options:
High Capacity USB Thumb Drives: USB Thumb Drives are now
available in sizes as large as 64GB (soon to be even more). While
the USB interface is somewhat slow, these make an ideal solution for their
small compact size. Thumb drives are perfect for storing in files,
or other compact spaces. While their cost per GB is somewhat high,
their convenience, USB interface, size, and extremely light weight, make
them a very attractive option.
External Hard Drives Now you have a wide variety of
options for external hard drives. 1TB (Terabyte) External Drives are
now available for less than $200.00. External drives come in a wide
range of sizes, speeds, and interfaces. They are available with USB
(the slowest), Firewire (medium speed), and SATA/eSATA (the fastest).
When selecting an external drive, it is important to consider how you will
use the drive, and the interface limitations of your computer. If
you have a laptop that only has USB ports, this would be your best
(possibly only) option. If you have USB & Firewire, get a drive that
has Firewire for the performance boost. If your system has a SATA or
eSata port, get a drive with this option - it will give you true hard
drive to hard drive performance.
However, also consider where you might need to restore the data. USB
is the most universal, in that almost all systems have USB ports. If
your system dies, and you need to restore your data, this may be your most
important consideration.
One last consideration is to keep your backup drive continuously
connected, or only connect it during backups. The general idea of
backups is to have a copy of your data in case your system fails - which
they do. But you may also want secure protected backups in a safe or
safe deposit box. Regardless, external hard drives offer an
outstanding solution for backing up your data, and the cost per GB is
quite low.
Hard Drive Docks (Toasters) An incredibly simple, yet
functional new product category emerged in 2008: Hard Drive Toasters (Hard Drive
Docks). This device lets you plug in regular internal hard drives as
though they were pop-in flash drives. You drop in your hard drive,
and the dock instantly gives your system access to that drive, without
wiring, or power connections - it's all done by the hard drive toaster.
This way you can use any compatible hard drive as an external removable
hard drive for backup purposes!
Online Backup Still another option is to use an
online backup service. These come in two forms:
• Backup to another computer over the Internet
• Backup to a central server using the Internet
The first of these can work very well, and automatically backups when you
are online. The Microsoft OneCare service is one example. It
can backup your data from your system to another in your OneCare account
across the Internet automatically, regardless of where you are.
The second involves trusting your critical data to someone else's servers,
and usually no real guarantee that your data will always be there.
If they loose your data, they just refund your fee. This service may
be fine for a couple of letters, but business critical data needs to be
accessible forever. For this reason, you are better advised to look
to a hardware solution that you control.
Backup Software Many products come with backup
software included, such as External Hard Drives, and Antivirus products
like
CA Security Suite. Most offer excellent features for automated
backups. But remember, backup software and devices, are only as good
as your willingness to use them! So backup regularly, and backup often.
This Drive Includes
a SATA (Serial ATA) Interface
Serial ATA (SATA) hard
drives have become the new standard in hard drive technology.
Motherboard manufacturers now include SATA inputs on their boards.
SATA hard drives result in less clutter and increased airflow in the
computer system, because SATA cables are dramatically narrower than
EIDE cables. Some older computer system motherboards don't have SATA
ports, but a PCI SATA controller card can be installed to add support
for SATA drives. If you don't know whether your computer has SATA
ports on the motherboard, refer to your computer or motherboard documentation
or contact the motherboard manufacturer.
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
explore.
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Here Are Some Common Problems And Solutions!
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