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- Manufacturer Limited Warranty period (parts): 5 years
- Manufacturer Limited Warranty period (labor): 5 years
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- Return for refund within: 30 days
- Return for replacement within: 30 days
- Restocking Fee: Yes
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Update (After 25 months)
- Pros: Fast, quiet, decent capacity, cheap.
- Cons: Runs warm. Will need a fan for it.
- Other Thoughts: After 25 months of continuous operation in my homebuilt NAS, this drive is still rock solid. Not even the slightest hint of a problem. Every morning my primary system automatically backs up to this drive. That works out to countless terabytes of trouble free data transfers. Prices are now currently almost half what I originally paid for it. Worth every cent . You may want to install a drive cooler.
Great... before it died.
- Pros: I was pretty happy with the performance of this drive. It was fast and relatively quiet, and installed really easily into my dual-drive external enclosure.
- Cons: None of the pros matter after the drive died from clicking heads of death after about 6 months. Furthermore, I sent in to Seagate a ST3500630AS (7200.10) and received in return a refurbished ST3500641AS (7200.9). The 7200.10 that died on me was made in Thailand. A second 7200.10 that I had purchased at the same time is still chugging along fine after a year and was made in China. The 7200.9 that I received as a replacement was made in Singapore.
- Other Thoughts: It had been a long time since I had to RMA a hard drive. The last drive I RMA'd was an early generation Maxtor DiamondMax 40 GB drive. I don't ever recall ever having paid for shipping to the manufacturer - the vendor would just take down my credit card # for the event that they did not receive my dead drive after sending me an advance replacement and a mailing label to cover my postage back to them. But back then, Maxtor was pretty thorough in making sure the drive was dead before letting you send it back. In regards to Seagate and their present drives, what's the point of paying for an inexpensive but unreliable drive if you're eventually going to pay for it with lost data and return shipping fees? As I'm already happy with my 7200 rpm boot drives, I've been looking into Western Digital and Samsung drives for backup, especially their green 5400 rpm drives, in hopes of finding a reliable drive.
- Pros: great drive for the money
- Cons: none yet
| Model |
| Brand |
Seagate |
| Series |
Barracuda 7200.10 |
| Model |
ST3500630A |
| Packaging |
Bare Drive |
| Performance |
| Interface |
IDE Ultra ATA100 |
| Capacity |
500GB |
| RPM |
7200 RPM |
| Cache |
16MB |
| Average Seek Time |
11ms |
| Average Write Time |
12ms |
| Average Latency |
4.16ms |
| Physical Spec |
| Form Factor |
3.5" |
| Features |
| Features |
Perpendicular recording technology for maximum drive capacity and reliability
Ultra-fast performance
Superb reliability
Whisper-quiet operation
Enhanced G-Force Protection against handling damage
Clean Sweep calibration and Directed Offline scan diagnostics
RoHS (restriction of hazardous substances) compliant |
| Manufacturer Warranty |
| Parts |
5 years limited |
| Labor |
5 years limited |
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Reviewed By: Greg on 12/14/2008
Tech Level: high - Ownership: more than 1 year
