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3gb 500gb Sata Amps Barracuda Cache Buffer Failure Rate Hard Disk Drive Hard Drives Height Max Latest Technology Length Max Mm 5 Model Number Msec Quiet Operation Sata Ii Hard Drive Seagate Barracuda Seagate Drive Spindle Speed Video Review
Today we are looking at the Seagate Barracuda 500GB SATA-II hard disk drive. This particlar drive comes with a 3 year warranty, is quiet whilst not ruling out being very quick too. Lots of hard drives on the market are quicker, but you compensate by having a noisy drive. This drive has all the features you would want, from a trusted manufacturer.
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If you’re looking for a suitable hard drive, either for storage or for your operating system, then look no further than the Seagate Barracuda 500GB SATA II hard drive. This set of hard drives from Seagate have used a tried and tested method for storage. This is the latest 7200.12 model encorporating the latest technology for including the fastest SATA speed, and 16mb cache buffer. For the money, this is fantastic value and is an extremely fast drive whilst maintaining a quiet operation. That’s why i’m giving it 5 out of 5 stars.
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We have rated this 5 out of 5 stars
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vishvanath if it’s a seagate drive, you can check the warranty here – http://support.seagate.com/customer/warranty_validation.jsp?form=0
Andy
hello sir
i m vishvanath
i wanna check hard disk 40 gb warranty status
Hi Jim,
I’ve always found that WD are very fast drives but are a lot noisier than Seagate, Samsung seem to be the quietest, but Seagate are quiet and maintain good speeds too.
Appreciate your work on this review. This drive is currently on sale in my locale, but so is the Caviar Black version of it from WD. It’s probably quiet too, but you mention this trait specifically for the Seagate, and it’s one of the important “intangible” qualities that I needed to know about before purchasing. If it’s fast but noisy, I’d be getting rid of it long before the warranty comes close to expiring! Thanks!
Melyssa try going to Seagate’s website and download their diagnostic/fitness tool to see what that says as it may just need to repair the drive.
Andy
My computer is less than a year old and I now have a message; “ST3500418AS: Hard disk failure is imminent. Please back up your hard disk and have it replaced!” I’m trying to find out if there’s somthing I can do to prevent failure. I am not technically inclined. Do I need to call out the Geek Squad or can I do this myself?? Thanks to all…
If a hard drive lasts the 3 years it will most likely last the 5 years, so whats the problem?
Alot of people completely forget about warranty a couple years down the line anyway and will just buy a new product, as getting a warranty replacement doesnt mean you will get a brand new drive, it will probably be reconditioned/refurbished.
Had those at work plent of times and thats for RMA replacements for brand new drives that were never used, just doa on delivery. :O
Typo has been fixed, sorry.
Ignore the 5 year warranty bit in the video. Sorry, my fault
Andy
These drives only have a 3year warranty not a 5 year one!
There is one big issue in your review, the warranty is not 5 years, but rather 3. Seagate had made this change more than a year ago. Essentially all OEM notebook and desktop drives are 3 years, while OEM enterprise drives and retail drives (be it notebook or desktop) still carry the 5yr warranty.
For Example, according to seagates warranty checker, the drive in the images, warranty expires Jun 1, 2012 (assuming that I read the serial# right as 6VM29S31)
For more details, please see:
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-gb/support/warranty_&_returns_assistance/oem_warranty_statements/
and
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-gb/support/warranty_&_returns_assistance/warranty_statements/