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Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB Hard Drive
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. New perpendicular
recording technology supports vertically stored data bits, enabling increased
areal density—and dependability—for workstations and performance PCs.
Advantages of Perpendicular Recording
After more than ten years of pioneering research at Seagate, perpendicular recording
is now a proven technology. It increases capacity and dependability by storing
data vertically, rather than horizontally. And vertically stored data bits mean
increased data density -- which means higher performance to increase productivity.
This Drive Holds
- 127 two-hour DVD-quality movies or
- 450 hours of VHS-quality video or
- 265 days of around-the-clock MP3 audio or
- 112,500 vivid digital photos or
- 640 action-packed games!
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Latest Owner Reviews
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| REVIEW BY: valuedude Reviewed
Nov 08, 2008 |
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| Drive fail to boot after 6 months. don't even get detected & show on the computer. no noise or moving when turned on; DEAD. 5 years warrenty was good, but had to pay shipping to get a replacement. got a Lemon. I can't even recover my data. sucks I didn't back up all the data and now it's lost. terrible |
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| REVIEW BY: Tom M. Reviewed
Nov 02, 2008 |
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| Drive failed after less than two months of use! I know mechanical devices can fail, but that seems crazy to me. I appear to be in the minority, but I saw the exact same symptoms as the reviewer ''Tana.'' Even more annoyingly, no sign of trouble until one day it just starts making a horrible high-pitched whine and won't boot. Every other hard drive I've had go bad has at least shown signs of trouble and given me time to backup and get a replacement, rather than failing spectacularly literally overnight. Now Seagate insists I pay the return postage for a replacement lousy drive?! Won't buy from this manufacturer again. |
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| REVIEW BY: Tana Reviewed
Oct 16, 2008 |
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| This is my first SATA HD I use to use a 2mb IDE so it was a big upgrade but....
Its faster and maybe I am unlucky but this is drive #2 and I am having nothing but issues.
First drive non-stop bsod and random reboots...RMA got a new one.
This one is now starting to fail to boot after my MB splash and is making a wrattle/tick sound.
Had I known this was going to be such a bad HD I would have went with the WD version and been done with it.
Tigerdirect = the best customer support but seagate has disappointed me this time. |
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| REVIEW BY: Reviewed
Oct 02, 2008 |
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| This SATA hard drive seems to be running fine and I had no problems cloning my old drive to this Seagate Barracuda drive. Only one problem with value of this product: it does not come with any installation hardware (SATA data and power cables, mounting screws). The webpage should indicate so that one can order these with drive. But why wouldn't Seagate add these to the product? Saving a few pennies? |
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| REVIEW BY: Reviewed
Sep 11, 2008 |
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| I bought 3 of them and setup a raid5. I love the speed.
I'll mention this again check your jumper settings and remove the jumper which limits your speed to 1.5 gbps if you have a 3.0 gbps motherboard. |
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What You Should Know
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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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Data type |
Time to re-create 20 MB |
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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 SATA (Serial ATA) Interface
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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
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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.
Click To Learn More »
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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!
Click Here To Learn
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How to Install a Hard Drive
A Step-by-Step Guide to Clean, Fast, and Easy Hard Drive Installation
Easy to follow, photo-illustrated steps for your no-hassle hard drive installation.
Click Here To Learn
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Issues With Your PC?
Here Are Some Common Problems And Solutions!
Of course, there a thousand little things can go wrong with an average
PC. But many problems are common, and have common solutions.
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Limited Warranty
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Manufactured by:
Seagate
Mfg Part No:
ST3320620AS
UPC No:
Box Size:
( Length:
8, Width:
7, Depth:
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Shipping Weight:
1.4500 pound(s)
Limited Warranty:
60 months parts;
60 months labor
Click here for full warranty and support information
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Limited Warranty: A full text version of the limited warranty
may be obtained by mailing a self addressed, stamped envelope to the
address below and requesting the warranty for item number:
TSD-320AS
TigerDirect.com
Warranty Information
7795 W. Flagler St. Suite 35
Miami, FL. 33144
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