Pros: 7200 rpm's, formatted capacity, high buffer rate.

Cons: None.

Other Thoughts: Exactly why I always purchase Seagate...High percentage of formatted to advertised capacity, well built, long lasting, fast and quiet.

Pros: It might turn on

Cons: Had 5 fail in less then a year...

RMA'd to seagate gets me a drive that lasts two weeks 4 times already

Other Thoughts: Go with there 720gb mine is still kicking no issues at all the 500's don't hold up...

can't give it no eggs so it gets one

Seagate is a very positive company as far as returns and csr support

Pros: Works flawlessly, great advertised features and a good price. What more can I ask of a hard drive?

Cons: None.

Pros: Worked great right out of the package. Set up raid without ever doing it before in 10min. Very Easy. No problems yet.

Cons: None......yet.

Pros: it did it job for a while.

Cons: I've own this for 8 months and it gave up on me, i have other disk that is like 7yrs old and still running like new. This one is just horrable.

Pros: works fine no problems easy install

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: quiet

Pros: Typical hard drive

Cons: High failure rate

Other Thoughts: I bought 4 of these drives and put them in a RAID10 array. So far, in almost a year that I've been using it, 3 of the 4 have died. So far, the refurb drives I get back after RMA'ing the dead ones work.

If you have a problem, you need to pay a $19.99 "Advance Replacement" fee which is a big scam. Otherwise, you need to send back the old drive in an approved box before they'll send you a new one. That's not a warranty when I can buy a new one for double the cost.

I've switched back to WD again.

Pros: Great drive. Absolutely no issues.

Cons: None.

Other Thoughts: Take note, however, that hard drives are basically hit and miss. They either arrive DOA or fully working for the most part. Part of the reason is due to the bubble wrap it is packaged in and the recycled brown paper they use as packaging peanut- replacement in the boxes now. But the wrapping seems to have gotten better, so the drives tend to come working more than they used to.

Pros: I really like the speed its RPM's is spinning at. It's a really good hard drive and I got no complaints. Works perfectly and it was a good buy for the price I got it for. Well worth the money.

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: None

Pros: Cheap

Cons: S.M.A.R.T. Status failing. Bought in December 2009, failing as of August 2010

Pros: Cheap price even for Seagate, but runs like a champ.

Cons: none so far

Pros: it seemed like a fast HDD while it worked.

Cons: i put it the computer and got it setup, and it worked for a couple of days but then it vanished from the BIOS and i tried a few things to get it working and it didn't work so RMAing it

Pros: Powers up using a single USB cable in an external enclsure
fast transfers and relatively quiet

Cons: The max amp of .7 is higher then other drives, but it runs off USB so I guess it never needs that much power

Other Thoughts: The difference using this drive in a USB / eSATA enclosure was night and day. eSATA took 7 minutes while USB took 45 minutes. This may have something to do with firmware or some other drive feature.

Pros: plug in play in XP pro 32 bit. Service pack 3. Formatted, assigned drive. Labeled drive Media, and then away I go. Cost per Gig very acceptable. got free shipping and paid Thirty five.

Cons: wish mobo had faster Sata transfer rates.

Other Thoughts: read & write on par with my Sata 2 limitations

Pros: Great hard drive. Quiet, easy to install, and runs cool.

Cons: None yet.

Other Thoughts: None yet.

Pros: Haven't had a chance to find out yet. But I'm hoping the next on will work.

Cons: DOA. Causes BIOS to freeze during device detection. Tried on second PC with similar problem. BIOS hangs for about 10 minutes then shows 0 Bytes on device.

Other Thoughts: Should have paid more attention to what others said about the high number of DOAs on this device. Thought I'd get lucky nu I guess not.

Pros: i got this pretty much for free in a combo, its a decent size with a good speed

Cons: this is my second hard drive that i got from newegg...
the first sounded like it had sand in it
and this one, the second, u can hear it scratching the disk or something inside when u turn it about

Other Thoughts: not really a review, but i keep getting weird hard drives -.-, and i dont feel like waiting a couple days for a replacement

Pros: good value
no problems

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: built my own computer with this hard drive using sata and works just fine. windows 7 performance test says its the weakest link on my computer but i have had no issues

Pros: Like the hd. Does what it's supposed to do. Store data. The price was great, got it on special for $40! Pretty amazing.

Cons: I have had Seagate's crash on me the most...hopefully it will last!

Other Thoughts: I am very happy with my purchase!!!

Pros: The fastest HD in the 7200rpm category, makes other HD's look like snails. The density of these platters is unmatched. which means higher transfer rates, especially on video. while in the spec sheet it says 125mb/s the max is really like 160mb/s on large consecutive tranfers. Heck 5 years ago I couldn't get that from my raid array. If it wasn't for the seek time this drive could beat alot of ssd's

Cons: Problem is that the failure rate on seagate drives is just to big these days, I dunno but I should have opted for the 410 version which is enterprise class, however this one had a $15 coupon so I ended up spending 50 bucks on a drive with a 3 year warranty. I dunno if I'll ever buy a seagate again, let's see how the replacement holds up.

Other Thoughts: Newegg should talk to seagate since this adds to their cost as well.

Pros: Worked out of the box
packaged nicely
7200 RPM
purchased for only 40$ (on sale)
slimmer than standard 3.5 inch HDDs

Cons: metal casing attracts fingerprints >.<

Other Thoughts: Good hard drive, still works perfectly
I use this in my external enclosure, very good

Pros: Works great

Cons: no problems after 6 months now

Pros: 500 GB hard drive. Would be much better if it worked.

Cons: First it gave me an error while partitioning the new drive. Downloaded and ran Seatools and determined that the drive was bad. Returning it to Seagate under warranty.

Other Thoughts: Not sure if I should have gone through Seagate or Newegg for the replacement. Either way, you're paying for return shipping. Seagate insists that you pack the drive a certain way when you return it. I was fortunate that I had a box from an old drive that seemed to meet their requirements. I'm hoping for the best on the replacement drive.

This is my second faulty product from Newegg in two consecutive orders. The last one was a DOA power supply. What's the deal??? I'm not saving any money if I spend it on return shipping on this stuff.

Pros: Just bought this drive so I can only comment on the initial receiving and testing.

Ordered on Monday and received it on Wednesday (Free Shipping IL) which was very nice. Very well packaged, antistatic bag, bubble wrap, smaller box inside a larger box packed with paper.

Formatted the drive in just over an hour, fantastic! Ran a few read tests which gave an average of 127 MB/s and coming from SATA 1.5 of 70Mb/s this made me grin (I seldom upgrade so its always a nice boost when I do).

Read speeds are misleading on any drive, so I wouldn't really base that on your purchase decision.

The drive is very quiet and does the job perfectly, so far. Oh and it came with the latest firmware.

Cons: Non as yet but if any problems arise I will add another review, if no problems arise I will still make another 6 month review.

Other Thoughts: MB Gigabyte P35 DS3R

It was a coin toss between this and the Caviar Green 500. I am glad I chose the Seagate, I don't like auto throttling hardware, whether that be voltage or speed, I want brute force available at all times.

Pros: none

Cons: none

Pros: Worked fine straight out of the box. Next day delivery, eggcellent! :)

Cons: None thus far...

Other Thoughts: I purchased two of the drives to setup a RAID 0 configuration. I was quite weary after reading the reviews, and I do hope for no RMAs etcetera. Seagate Disk Wizard worked fine. I've had no problems thus far (fingers crossed).

Pros: All five HDDs eventually (SEE BELOW) passed full-house SeaTools diagnostic testing with jumpers set to SATA 1.5 GB/s mode for use in WIN XP Pro DDR environment. Once in use, all five functioned just like all Seagate products have worked for me since the mid-1980s - perfectly.

Cons: Once squared away, no squawks.

Other Thoughts: Two out of five HDDs appeared DOA when first attempting full-house SeaTools diagnostic testing with my own scrap-pile jumpers set to SATA 1.5 GB/s. Those two had over-height jumper blocks that prevented proper seating in the SATA external dock; trimming 1/16" off top of those two blocks resulted in total joy on all five HDDs.

Pros: Good performing and quiet drive for a relatively moderate use home PC.

Cons: 1 of 2 drives in my parents PC failed after 1 year and 1 week. Of course the Dell they came in only had a 1 year warranty.

Other Thoughts: I'm using two of these drives in a RAID1 configuration. I ordered a replacement from NewEgg only because I prefer to keep my RAID configuration discs the same exact model. Otherwise, I would not be ordering a Seagate drive. Much prefer Western Digital for being quiet, energy efficient, and reliable. Thank goodness for RAID1, replacement was a snap!

Pros: Really good price for the size, based on previous drives

Cons: Ordered two, but one arrived DEAD. Is it really cheaper when you have to repackage, and return? Time is money.

Pros: 7200 rpm good speed

Cons: 7200 rpm eats battery life

Pros: I had two of these drives for almost a year in a raid 1 configuration with no problem. Added two more and now have a 4 drive raid 5, which gets 300 MB on data reads.

Cons: None.

Pros: easy to install and setup with online help from seagate.

Cons: the item went bad after a few days with an error "SMART event." research revealed that new SeaGate hard drives have a high rate of returns. I learned this after-the-fact. Bought a Western Digital from New Egg and hope this will be a better choice.

Pros: Really fast for a 7200RPM drive. Single platter design. Newegg had it packed well enough for me.

Cons: See other thoughts.

Other Thoughts: I had some problems installing Win7 64-bit via DVD. I'm not sure if it was the DVD drive or the HDD but I'm sure it was this drive. It would install 32-bit fine, but I had to go buy 4GB flash drive at Walmart for $10 to finish off my computer. That's why I knocked off an egg.

Just something to think about.

Pros: It works like its suppose to will get another.

Cons: None

Pros: Inexpensive, easy to install, quiet, fast. Mine shipped with the new firmaware (7200.12) already installed. Got it in less than 24 hours.

Cons: Not so much a con as a heads-up: this is a bare drive: get a cable. You'll also need software to transfer your existing drive if you plan on replacing or switching your hard drives.

Other Thoughts: After looking at a bunch of freeware to copy my old drive, I smartened up and downloaded Seagate's DiscWizard program from their site. Worked flawlessly. I switched the boot order in the BIOS after copying and away it went.

Pros: Works perfectly fine and fits easily into my case. Computer quickly recognized it and I was able to put my old files right back on it.

Cons: None so far.

Other Thoughts: Bought this to replace an old Seagate external drive that finally kicked the bucket. Arrived promptly and in great condition.

As with all hard drives, remember to have the proper cables BEFORE ordering.

Pros: Reading all of these negative reviews makes me nervous, however a lot of the Western Digital drives also have negative reviews. With that being said I have not had any problems. I did flash this drive with the latest firmware from seagates website which gave me about a 10% boost in read speed. Unfortunately seagate is secretive about what fixes are in their firmware updates which leads me to believe they are hiding something. I am running the Western digital caviar black at work and the performance between the two seem to be exactly the same.

Cons: None so far.

Pros: love seagate, always have always will

Cons: none i know off.

Pros: Came with combo deal!

Cons: The hard drive came DOA.

Other Thoughts: Should just be a fluke, new drive should come within the next 2 weeks via RMA.

Pros: Decent Price
Seagate has good CSR's

Cons: You name it... I've had 4 of these fail all replace under warranty with re certified drives. They all failed also within a month

Other Thoughts: I own a 320 and older 500IDE no problems owned almost 4 years...

Long and short seagate is now sending a different model with a higher capacity

Pros: Small foot print. large size.. 500 gb. and pretty fast access times. The price is great and you get what you pay for.

Cons: Its not an older Seagate.
Formatting may be hard.
Be sure TO NOT DO a fast format on this drive. Do the slow one and order a few pizza's and eat it with 5 of your friends and watch a movie while it is formatting. You will have plenty of time.. But after that it is smooth sailing.

Other Thoughts: Its not that bad.. Really.. I just thought that when they took over maxtor they would throw away everything and make it all Seagate again.. Instead it is almost as if the opposite is true. Overall It is a good Drive. I would buy it again but it's not old Seagate quality.

Pros: Drive WAS fast!

Cons: The drive crashed after only 6 months, and Newegg won't RMA it.

Pros: The drive luckily lasted for two years.
I bought the drive because it had good specs.

Cons: The drive had bad firmware, and Seagate won't take responsibility if it's an OEM drive ("Bare Drive" = OEM).

So many Seagate ST3500320AS are lemons.
It's a known documented problem.
The drive is defective from the manufacture.
But even no they admit this, they refuse to take responsibility and fix OEM drives.
Furthermore, they could have taken more responsibly by simply mailing everyone (who gave address by sending warranty card, or could have told Newegg to send them) a simple postcard to upgrade the firmware ASAP.

They could have saved countless thousands of their customers from lost data, lost time to go fix a bricked drive, etc.

Think twice about buying a Seagate now.

Other Thoughts: Okay, it's a slightly different drive number but the same specs.
But of course you can't write a review for it as it's "discontinued".
This is just a warning about Seagate drives.

Pros: *Easy install
*Fast

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: Hope it stays reliable.

`Antec Three Hundred Black Steel ATX Case
`hec X-Power Pro 600 600W ATX12V V2.2
`Seagate Barracuda 500GB 7200 RPM
`MSI 770-G45 AM3 AMD 770 ATX
`AMD Athlon II X3 440 Rana 3.0GHz
`SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 4670 1GB
`Crucial 2GB (2 x 1GB) DDR3 SDRAM

Pros: It was cheap and easily reccognized by my system

Cons: none so far

Other Thoughts: its not a ssd

Pros: Small, fast, quiet

Cons: Make sure to get the upgraded firmware

Searthe the seagate website for Barracuda 7200.12 Firmware Update [213891]

Other Thoughts: My computer has been laggins for months.. probably since I bought this hard drive. I ran HDTUNE which showed TERRIBLE transfer rates... I realized I have version CC34 of the firmware.. the latest is CC46.. my drive went from an average transfer rate of 25 MB/s to 133 MB/s with the new firmware. NO JOKE..

Pros: No Problems

Cons: None

Pros: Formated fine, runs quit and cool. Fast for the price

Cons: none as of now

Pros: It was cheap, easy to install, and worked fine for a month

Cons: It died a day or two after the warranty expired..... essentially making it a paperweight.

Other Thoughts: If I could give this no stars I would, Seagate obviously does not care about quality and durability because as soon as the warranty expired the harddrive failed. After attempting to get a refund or replacement from Seagate, they told me I needed to pay a 45 dollar fee plus shipping and taxes in order to return it. COMPLETE waste of money

Pros: It arrived packaged in bubble wrap and an anti-static bag. The drive seems to be pretty speedy and although it's not too special, it's about half as thick as a regular drive (but is still the same form factor). It scores a 5.9 in Windows 7 (like that means anything) and the drive is silent in my case.

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: We'll see as time goes on whether this is one of Seagate's good drives or not. So far though it looks like it's going to turn out to be a good little budget hard drive for a budget box.

Pros: They were on sale at NewEgg for $40 per 500 GB drive, with free shipping. Awesome price!

Cons: Both drives arrived DOA. (I've filed an RMA request.)

Other Thoughts: I bought two of these in the same order. They arrived on my NC doorstep (via Eggsaver/UPS 3-day) in a rather battered box, but the contents appeared to be intact and undamaged. However, both drives are completely dead, unrecognized by BIOS. When first powered up, they make a faint buzzing sound every ~2 seconds for a while, then go silent.

I gave em a three-rating instead of lowest-possible because I am charitably assuming that they were damaged by rough treatment during shipment, rather than defective when shipped.

Pros: Cheap for the speed and space

Cons: I ended up getting a 2nd one here which is this review because my first one went bad within 2 months out of the blue. smart gave me a error for bad sectors and no programing i ran or how many times i fully reformatted it nothing worked. the only way i could even see the drive was with a bootcd of seatools other than that even HDD dock had a hard time showing. just would freeze my computer once powered on.

Other Thoughts: i ended up doing RMA with seagate which was a pain, first they didn't have the S/n so i got on chat and told the agent. he made me take a picture to verify it was right and than still wants me to pay S/h to get the drive to TX for a replacement... seagate this is the first drive to go bad on me that wasn't DOA. I still have an old 20gb working just fine so whats up? i suggest you avoid seagate for a while unless you are willing to lose your data

Pros: Inexpensive... Great drives while they worked... Their website is easy to use in terms of warranty validation and RMA.

Cons: In the past, I have set up 3 RAID-0 Stripe setups with these drives with Intel Matrix, nVidia Mediashield, and AMD 790GX controllers. Two of three setups have had a drive fail... the Intel setup at 3 months with SMART failure, no longer able to boot Windows(not backed up, all data was lost), and the nVidia setup at 16 months with a SMART failure notice, followed by repetitive lockups of the PC(my personal system, which had the data backed up in time). The AMD based RAID hasn't had a drive fail so far at 7 months, but it's just a matter of when :/ Risky when you don't have a backup setup. Seagate now has the customer pay to ship the drive back for RMA.

Other Thoughts: With any mechanical HDDs, it's important to have a backup setup to protect your data. My personal system has 2 7200.12 drives in stripe, so for backup, I have a WD GP 1TB drive. Windows 7 has a built-in option to create a system image of your logical drive(s), which I use about once a week. With devices, there's always a chance of failure, but Seagate's newer drives seem to be very unreliable. Their older drives seem more solid. I won't buy anymore Seagate drives as I have also had other problems with their products. If you decide to get these, don't be surprised if they fail prematurely. Have your data backed up on a regular basis. I'll keep using my other working drive along with the replacement until I fill them up... after that, it's back to WD.

Pros: Great Drives!
Here is a HD Tune benchmark on 2 of these drives in raid 0 array using the 9.6.0.1014 version of Intel's Rapid Storage Manager software on my 5 year old 965 system.

HD Tune: Intel Raid 0 Volume Benchmark

Volume : SeaRaid12
Transfer Rate Minimum : 173.4 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 267.0 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 247.0 MB/sec
Access Time : 8.7 ms
CPU Usage : 9.0%

Huge improvement over the 2x 500GB Barracuda 7200.10 Raid 0 array It replaced.

Volume : SeaRaid10
Transfer Rate Minimum : 107.2 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 142.1 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 125.7 MB/sec
Access Time : 11.1 ms
CPU Usage : 7.1%

Bought 2 more of these drives today. I want to see if a 4 drive raid 0 can break the 500 MB/sec mark.

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: System Stats: 2.4 Ghz E6600 Core2Duo, Intel DG965WH ( ICH8R ), Superclocked eVGA 8800 GT 512, 3 GB Kingston DDR2-800, and Xp Pro Sp3 .

Pros: So far nothing wrong. Installed my OS fine Windows 7. runs fast and is very quiet.

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: my build
MOBO- ASRock N68PV-GS
CPU- QuadCore AMD Phenom X4 Black Edition 9850, 2500 MHz
3GB DDR2 RAM
500GB 7200RPM Main Hard drive (the seagate)
500GB 7200RPM secondary storage hard drive (a Samsung)
Windows 7 Ultimate
Nvidia Geforce 9600GT 512mb

Pros: reliable HD, bought 4 with 0 fail rate, used by HP now in Compaq lines,

Cons: there are higher cap seagate HDs for close to same price

Other Thoughts: down load seagate tools to clone ancient hard drives for parents Dell 4600s made life a snap, this and other upgrades made thier comps come back to life, run cooler, and be swapable when i upgrade thier Mobo and CPU next year.

Pros: works great just like any hardrive should

Cons: no cons

Pros: None for me.

Cons: Received it, but it was DOA... Sent it back and got ANOTHER one, and it was DOA as well. So I tried one more time and got replaced it a second time. Worked for 2 months and then died. Real nice...

Pros: Price when I bought it was $40.

Cons: It's supposed to be 3.5 inch, but it's less than that, but larger than a 2.5" laptop drive. Mine is DOA.

Other Thoughts: I bought this on sale and didn't open it until 6 weeks later, today, and it's DOA. Since it's past 30 days, I have to talk with Seagate. With SSD price drops just around the corner, manufacturers are probably dumping all of their old stock at low prices, so I expect more DOA. I will check mine upon arrival from now on.

Pros: Pirce was right.

Cons: DOA on the first HD received, requested RMA and received the 2nd one that my PC can recognize the drive. But the RMA $10.00 shipping was added to the overall cost of the HD, :( Only wish it was not DOA the first time.

Other Thoughts: I love Newegg!! The only place online that I will make purchase for my PC build stuff. Thank you.

Pros: Cheap, silent, cool and pretty fast...

Cons: Bought two of these, one @ newegg and another from a retailler in town; retailer one had 4000 bad sectors after 36 hours... Retailer reimbursed me no questions asked. The Newegg one is still running strong after a full month of 24/24h use.

Other Thoughts: Seing all the bad comments on these drives (V12) and the older revisions made me think twice about buying Seagate again; my next purchase is a 5y waranteed WD black.... Still giving 4 stars because of the no hastle return.

Pros: looked nice

Cons: dead when I recieved it

Other Thoughts: I wish they would test out the product before they shipped it...

Pros: I have had several in both 24/7 & normal operation for over 9-months, no failures. They are quiet & cool. As fast or faster than other HDD's this size. I have been using Seagate since the 1970's, before the PC in DEC systems, Seagate has always been the "Gold Standard" of Storage for Professionals.

Cons: Not free, not 500TB, not faster than SSD's.

Other Thoughts: Get over the old firmware problems that existed 2-generations ago (7200.10), that is old history. Seagate is back on top where they have been for the past 40yrs!

Pros: They work initially...

Cons: Most Seagate drives, including this one, fail consistently. First they accumulate "reallocated sectors" and finally they just die. I hate to say I haven't seen a Seagate drive live beyond a year. And I've seen quite a few...

Pros: does its job

Cons: none

Pros: Runs quiet and cool.

Cons: None.

Other Thoughts: If it holds out for a while longer, I might just buy another one to match.

Pros: Quiet and runs cool

Cons: The first one failed within 4 months, the replacement lasted 8.

Other Thoughts: So long Seagate, time to try a WD

Pros: looked nice

Cons: dead when i got it

Other Thoughts: seemed counter-intuitive but i bought the terabyte version from best buy the same day but instead it was manufactured in thailand. that one works great

Pros: It worked fine for 15 months. Not loud, average speed.

Cons: It crapped out for no reason at 15 months. No warning signs, just gone. The computer just shut off, and upon rebooting said it config file was missing/corrupt. After trying the repair console and other methods it can't even read the MBR. Fixboot doesn't read it either and chkdsk reports unrecoverable errors. I'll not buy a seagate again.

Other Thoughts: When buying a hard drive, go for quality rather than saving $20.

Pros: One of the fastest drives in this class. No problems thus far, drive performs quite well. This is not a - 7200.11 Drive
The ST3500418AS IS A 7200.12 drive and does not have the firmware issues that the7200.11 drive had.

Cons: None yet. I'll see if it lasts the course.

Other Thoughts: Tech support at Seagate and Western Digital are all about the same - fair to poor - you get little from tech support at any large OEM. Unless you are Dell or HP - don't expect instant gratification!

Pros: -It didn't die on me during the 24 hours I got to use the computer before having to RMA the ram
-It doesn't seem too loud over the dual 100+cfm fans I have
-It loads up windows pretty fast (About 40 seconds from post to desktop?)
-It was cheap.

Cons: -It should probably have had the model renamed to something like x500-7200 since the 7200.11 is terrifying in failure rates.

Other Thoughts: If you really trust hard drive reviews from people who have owned them for a week, that worries me. I haven't even started putting this thing through its paces.

Pros: C H E A P. They were on sale. Way cheaper than my first hard drive, 500MB for $550 (1990).

Cons: One working (for now anyway), one DOA.

Other Thoughts: Gonna take this one up with Seagate.

Pros: I can't think of one.

Cons: WARNING: Do not use a Seagate drive for your Windows 7 install. Many Seagate drives (despite their flouted compatibility) will not be recognized by Windows 7, despite being recognized in the BIOS.

Google the problems yourself...

"Seagate Hard Drive not recognized Windows 7"

After pulling my hair out for two days talking to Microsoft and Seagate tech support, I had enough... I bought a Western Digital drive and Windows 7 installed without a hiccup.

The Seagate drive passed all diagnostic checks performed on a second computer, and seems to function fine as a secondary drive -- it just doesn't work as a primary drive for an OS install.

I won't buy a Seagate drive ever again.

Pros: Rock solid HD no issues. Sale price was out of this world.

Cons: None.

Pros: Ran great, quiet, quick (ssd withstanding). Boots on my system were consistently under 40sec even with a handful of applications.

Cons: It's been 15months without even a hiccup then my computer fails to boot, intermittent clicking from the drive. Managed to get it to boot, all seatools tests pass but still serious issues with read speed and intermittent failures.

Other Thoughts: I came back to this page to just order a new one but all the recent reviews and my experience is a bit concerning so I'll be shopping around some more.

Pros: The original ones had a 5 year warranty; these 3 year;

Cons: FAILED in less than a week. Bought 2 to use in a RAID 1 config- to replace a previous Segate (about a year old) that FAILED. Lots of luck.

Other Thoughts: The quality of these Seagate drives has gone to ZERO. I bought about 15 of them for new builds about 1 1/2 years ago, because I thought the quality would be good since they carried a 5 year warranty then. WRONG. At least 50% have failed since then. I have switched to WD BLACK, but the problem is the Intel MB (975) does not recognize the WD 640GB Black as even being there for the RAID, so I chanced buying more Seagates to continue the RAID 1 array. BAD idea- will now rebuilt WIN without RAID as a result. No more SEAGATE!

Pros: it worked well... key point there, worked is past tense.

Cons: It died in under a year for seemingly no reason, worse yet the files that were most important to me were not recoverable, really regretting this purchase

Other Thoughts: I should have bought a MAC!

Pros: Price, Free Shipping, NewEgg Support

Cons: I've been building with Seagate Drives for years. They used to be reliable, high quality drives, but, not anymore! I can't believe the number of problem drives I've had come back at me in the past couple months. Bad sectors, "flakey" drives that, intermittently, fail to boot, electronic failures, all on drives less than a year old. I've spent twelve years building my reputation, and these drives are making me look bad, especially when a customer has failures on a drive that was recently replaced. It's not just the 500 GB drives either. I've had problems with 160 GB, 250's, and 500's. I just can't afford the time, shipping costs, and inconvenience to my customers anymore. No more Seagate drives for me!

Other Thoughts: I RMA'd one that was defective right out of the box. Notated that it was brand new and that I wanted a new replacement. The sent me a recertified drive. I was plenty upset. I can't use a refurb in a new build, so, as far as I'm concerned, the warranty is useless if that's their policy.

Pros: Great deal.

Cons: Bought 2 drives during the shell shocker deal. And both were DOA. Very surprising. Awaiting replacements now.

Other Thoughts: Couldn't pass up the deal, but I'm starting to wonder what the deal is, considering all the DOA reports I'm seeing. Hopefully the replacements run smoothly.

Pros: Cheap, slim

Cons: Poor quality, cheap

Other Thoughts: I bought 6 of these in the fall of 09 for a new small business server and backup system. As of June 2010 three of the drives are already bad. Two have SMART issues and the other is just plain dead. Bios doesnt even see that it is there anymore.

Pros: The Barracuda drives have been a mainstay of mine for many years. They hold stuff. They let me read it back. Less facetiously, they are quiet and reliable.

Cons: Well, it stopped working after 7 months in service

Other Thoughts: This is just plain strange. once.loyal.SG.buyer's description matches mine: it was working fine, SMART reported no errors, backups and restores worked. Then, yesterday, it stopped dead. To quote the previous reviewer, "Was working just fine and all, and then booted up on morning and the S.M.A.R.T. detector thing told me its toast." Can't read the drive on another system, can't read the drive with DOS-based utilities. Maybe it's a firmware virus that's taking them all out in the last week of June (weak joke).
A curious coincidence.

Pros: none

Cons: Tried in 2 different puters and on the third wouldnt even boot could not be seen by windows 7 ul;timate 64 and xp 32.

Other Thoughts: normally i dont mention DOA items as it happens but this was on shocker and alot of them sent out seem to get doa reviews. That cost the customer. Newegg is still a good place to buy from period bad shipments happen. Really needed it just took a couple weeks to getting to use it in a new build with a case and other things i got. Most from newegg.

Pros: Initially, the driver performed well and was very quiet.

Cons: After about 25 days of use, the drive became unusable due to frequent unrecoverable read errors.

Pros: I bought 5 of these drives and to date I've had them in 2 setups:
4 Disk Raid 0
5 Disk Raid 5
Both setups were on a Intel ICH10R chipset P45 mobo

In 5 disk raid 5 I achieved 412MB/s sustained reads, writes were not nearly as good at around 140 MB/s. This is because raid 5 overhead is just too much for the ICH10R but Raid 0 Has much less overhead.

In 4 disk raid 0:
Sequential Read = 430 MB/s
Sequential Write = 300 MB/s
4KB Seq. Read = 96,000 IOPS
4KB Seq. Write = 74,500 IOPS
4KB Random Read = 0.6 MB/s (Nothing compared to a SSD)
4KB Random Write = 4 MB/s ( bad speeds again)

I use the 4 disk raid 0 array as a working copy of my media and low resource programs. It is great at transferring movies, games, and music across my home network even though it saturates a gigabit ethernet connection @ 85MB/s. Transferring a 5 GB file from raid to ssd take about 20 seconds.

Cons: Random read/write speeds in raid will never come close to a good ssd.

You will need a good raid card if you want speed while using raid 5 arrays.

Other Thoughts: -Cheap
-Thin
-Single Platter
-Fast
-Newegg packed them very securely

Pros: specifications and pricing on this drive are great.

Cons: ordered 3 drives, 1 drive was DOA and another had some noticeable dents. I wasn't surprised when the dented drive failed the Seatools long test.

The box that the drives arrived in was half crushed on the top and one side. The drives were packed in a polysterene slot structure with large bubble wrap around that. Then this wispy, and worthless, brown paper tubing. While it seemed as though there was adequate packaging it certainly could have been much better in terms of keeping the drives in a fixed position in the box.

Other Thoughts: annoyed that I have to return two out of three drives, at my expense, that may have been OK if the packaging was better.

Pros: Good drive. Quick as usual. Its a hard drive. It holds stuff. The barracudas are always a good choice.

Cons: Giving her one egg since she just died in less than a year and It has been a nightmare.

AND (the other reason for 1 egg) The other slap in the face would be the fact that yeah seagate has a 3 year warranty, but did you know you have to ship it to them? AND pack it? With a bunch of ridiculous packing rules. Where do i get a SeaShell? Can't use bubble wrap they say. Well...i just bought a hdd recently from them and guess what it came in? bubble wrap. Every other company i've had to RMA to they send you a package to send it back in. I have to PAY to ship my broken hard drive that i already PAID for. Really Seagate? Really?

Other Thoughts: Was working just fine and all, and then booted up on morning and the S.M.A.R.T. detector thing told me its toast. The file system is gone and it is a RAW. The drive can't even be recognized by Disc Management. Think something on the inside just went bad or something. Really horrible thing though, I'm a 3d artist and I lost about a week's worth of super important work + a load of other important works. Funny thing is, I just bought another hard drive and dvd burner to do backups of stuff ONE DAY BEFORE it died. Literally had just got done opening my newegg box from the mail, and went to boot. FAIL! I feel like going WD now....

Pros: works well with windows 7 64bit in raid 0, fast, cheep, and quite

Cons: system mechanic wont recognize my raid 0 config and bugs out on deep scans just a small flaw but not at fault with this drive that a bug in system mechanic software

Pros: shell shocker/good deal at 40 bucks
works as advertised
perfect for enclosures or RAID 0

Cons: UPS but it's nothing that Seagate can help. lol

Other Thoughts: RAID is your friend.

Pros: Very quiet
Seagate quality
Thin
Stays cool
Fast
Can't hear it spin up, unlike other hard drives

Cons: Can't really think of any other than seeing the reviews that claim the hard drive failed.. Hope that doesn't happen!

Other Thoughts: I used to have a 160GB Seagate hard drive in my computer as the primary hard drive for the OS and a 500GB Western Digital to store all document libraries.
The Western Digital was very loud and it would get very hot, even with a fan cooling the hard drives. The Seagate stayed around 30 degrees and the Western Digital around 50 degrees (Celsius).
Compared to my old Seagate hard drive, this one is very quiet and very thin! I can't even hear it spin up or during any activity, it makes a huge difference since now I can't tell whether my desktop is on or not. It's also a lot thinner than my old Seagate and Western Digital hard drive.
Buy this drive if you need 500GB of space and want a quiet, fast drive! :)

Pros: Does what its supposed to

Cons: pretty silent

Pros: Single platter, thinner drive, fast, and cheap.

Cons: None!

Other Thoughts: Installed 3 so far. Buy them when they are on sale.

Pros: Low cost as part of shell shocker deal.

Cons: Drive dead-on-arrival; could hear read head hunting but platter did not spin. Drive not recognized by computer either.

Other Thoughts: Bought drive as part of shell-shocker deal. RMA requested with replacement. Even if replacement drive works, cost of acquiring drive increased by 25% because of the cost to ship DOA drive back to Newegg, almost eliminating gains through deal.

Pros: Packaging was good. NewEgg has a very good return policy.

Cons: Two out of three of the seagate 500 GB hard drives were unrecognizable by my computer.

Pros: Seems to have a fast load speed, and plenty of space for everything I need.

Cons: Appears to have over 50g missing from the stated 500g it is supposed to have, and I have only placed firefox, and the windows 7 OS.

Other Thoughts: Seems to be working well, was told seagate was a bad choice, but im quite happy with the purchase, was a little upset about the loss of over 50g of the 500 i ordered, but I can live with it since I have 2 other 250g hard drives to back it up. it went well with the ASUS M4A78L i got along with it and works what more can you ask for than for it to work.

Pros: Looks Nice

Cons: Unfortunately my motherboard would not recognize it.
I tried another HDD and it seen that one. Requested RMA
and Newegg.com promptly issued one.

Other Thoughts: Seagate is usually a good HDD, but not this time.

Pros: None the drive was DOA

Cons: DOA enough said...

Other Thoughts: While the drive was well packed it was DOA, NEVER buying Seagate again!!

Pros: I got 3 of these for $40 bucks each. Just transfered 60gbs at 120mbs.

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: I swear newegg mailed these from my neighbors house. I received them so quick!! Each hdd was bubble wrapped and in separate boxes.

Pros: Inexpensive, was on sale. Touted as having better reliability than the notoriously bad previous versions.

Failed *RIGHT AWAY* - I much prefer it that way rather than after 6 months or a year's use. ;-)

The other one (same, ordered at same time) worked AOK. But will now test it thoroughly before using it. Guess why.

Cons: Hard drive failed on first attempt to use it - BSD in XP - testing with Seagate Seatools, failed short test, revealed LBA errors on about 30 sectors, which could be /and were repaired in software. But I'd rather not take chances with that drive.

Other Thoughts: I don't think Seagate has its act together, or maybe it has a new business model, with drives made to fail early, just past their warranty? (being sarcastic here)

Pros: -It came working out of box, so that's good i guess
-FREE with my Computer Case (HAF 932)

Cons: -None

Other Thoughts: Someone said that it runs hot, he must have gotten some bad drives because this one never breaks 28C under heavy load.

Pros: Does what it needs to do, no complaints

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: Works as advertised