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Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 Hard Drive - 750GB, 7200rpm, 32MB, Serial ATA-300

Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 750GB HD
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Item Number: TSD-750AS3
Model: ST3750528AS
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Price:   $69.99
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Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 Hard Drive
With up to 750GB of pure digital storage in a single drive, the Seagate ST3750528AS Barracuda 7200.12 Hard Drive is the largest, most reliable disc drive around. New perpendicular recording technology supports vertically stored data bits, enabling increased areal density and dependability for workstations and performance PCs.

Perpendicular Recording
After more than ten years of research, perpendicular recording is now a proven technology. The Seagate ST3750528AS Barracuda 7200.12 Hard Drive increases capacity and dependability by storing data vertically, rather than horizontally. And vertically stored data bits mean increased data density—and more gigabytes per platter.

The Seagate Advantatge
High-capacity Barracuda 7200 disc drives, from the world’s premier storage provider deliver years of reliable service and high performance. Using advanced manufacturing techniques and extensive design experience, Seagate® engineers have built the world’s tenth-generation 7200-RPM desktop disc drive to provide the industry’s leading combination of capacity, performance and reliability.

This Seagate ST3750528AS Barracuda 7200.12 Hard Drive Holds
- 318 two-hour DVD-quality movies or
- 1000 hours of VHS-quality video or
- 660 days of around-the-clock MP3 audio or
- 276,500 vivid digital photos or
- 1600 action-packed games!


Specifications

  Drive Type:  Internal
  Interface:  Serial ATA-300
  Interface Type:  SATA
  Spindle Speed (RPM):  7200
  Buffer Memory:  32MB
  Average Latency (msec):  4.17
  Maximum External Transfer Rate (Mbits/sec):  300
  Form Factor:  3.5"
  Nonrecoverable Read Errors per Bits Read:  1 in 10E14
  Temperature, Operating (°C):  0 to 60
  Temperature, Nonoperating (°C):  -40 to 70
  Shock, Operating: 2 msec (Gs):  70
  Shock, Nonoperating: 2 msec (Gs):  300
  Acoustics Idle (bels—sound power):  2.5
  Acoustics Seek (bels—sound power):  2.7
  Type:  OEM
  Dimensions:  1.02" x 4.00" x 5.79"
Customer Reviews and Rating  
Customer Rating:    3.1
Customer Reviews: 4

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Value 3.0
Features 3.0
Quality 3.3
Performance 3.3

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Worst company I've used products from in 15 years
Reviewer:  Dave on  Nov 04, 2009
Customer Rating:    1.0
Value 1.0
Features 1.0
Quality 1.0
Performance 1.0

I bought a pair of drives to use in RAID 1 to mirror data. I was working on a PhD dissertation and didn't want to risk a freak failure. I thank my lucky stars I did that. The first failed in about 2 months, and the second died after 4. I also have (had) an external Seagate drive... it lasted 9 months before dying. I wouldn't wish this brand on my worst enemy, and if you have one, please, please have an effective backup scheme in place.


not reliable
Reviewer:  mario on  Sep 23, 2009
Customer Rating:    2.0
Value 2.0
Features 2.0
Quality 2.0
Performance 2.0

simply put, mine died after 5 months only when it was 119$ last winter. It looked like a good product but 5 months is not acceptable and I didnt even have the time to fill it up so I was not playing too roughly with it.


Just love them.
Reviewer:  Frost on  Jul 27, 2009
Customer Rating:    5.0
Value 5.0
Features 5.0
Quality 5.0
Performance 5.0

Bought 2 of these, great price, quite, 32mb buffer. $79.97 canadian can't complain. Just love them.


Great value for a Performance/Mainstream HD
Reviewer:  Mark on  Jul 27, 2009
Customer Rating:    4.5
Value 4.0
Features 4.0
Quality 5.0
Performance 5.0

This is a very fast Hard disk, and very reliable. It is faster than my not too old Western Digital Blue 320gb, (In testings, WD reads up to 80mb/s and Seagate up to 115mb/s). Vista SP2 x86 and Seven RC1 x64 boots very fast too.


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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.

    Click Here for External USB/Firewire Hard Drives
     
  • 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!

    Click Here for Hard Drive Docks
     
  • 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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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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Having Issues With Your PC?
Here Are Some Common Problems And Solutions!

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-  36 Months Parts
-  36 Months Labor
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Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 Hard Drive - 750GB, 7200rpm, 32MB, Serial ATA-300
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SeagateST3750528ASBarracuda 7200.12 Hard Drive750GB
Manufactured by: Seagate
Warranty provided by: Seagate
Limited Warranty: 36 months parts; 36 months labor
Mfg Part No: ST3750528AS
UPC No: 890552659029
Box Size: ( Length: 9, Width: 6, Depth: 2 )
Shipping Weight: 1.5000 pound(s)
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