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Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 500GB Hard Drive Bundle With Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit DSP OEM DVD

Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 500GB Hard Drive Bundle
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Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 500GB 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 500GB 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 500GB 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 32-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.

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Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 500GB 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 500GB of reliable digital storage.

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Windows Vista Ultimate 32-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.

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Specifications

  Software Type:  Operating Systems
  Drive Type:  Internal
  Capacity:  500GB
  Interface:  Serial ATA-300
  Packaging:  OEM
  Interface Type:  SATA
  Spindle Speed (RPM):  7200
  Buffer Memory:  16MB
  Average Seek (msec):  8.5 to 9.5
  Average Latency (msec):  4.16
  Form Factor:  3.5"
  Dimensions:  .78" x 4" x 5.87"
Detailed Features

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.

What You Should Know

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.

    Click Here for 32GB Thumb Drives or for 64GB+ Thumb Drives
     
  • 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.

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  • 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!

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  • 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. Click To Learn More »

Why Do I Have Less Drive Space?
Your hard drive may show less space than the published specifications due to a number of reasons.
  1. The way size is calculated and displayed.
  2. Any "Partitions" on the disk will change the total in a specific partition.
  3. Hidden files and folders decrease available space.
  4. Compression increases the apparent size, but not the physical size.
  5. 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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