Seagate BarraCuda 7200.10 ST3250310AS 250GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive

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4.3
TOP FAVORABLE REVIEW
An Efficient, Silent, Cool and Compact Harddrive

Inexpensive high performance harddrive of 250GB capacity. What I like about this drive is the remarkably thin housing, the single platter/dual head configuration, low power requirements, and good performance for the cost. The drive is virtually silent and very cool during operation. I found the thin drive housing beneficial for my application because this allowed larger airgaps between the drive and drive bay for improved cooling. This was important for my upgrade application because this drive is mounted in a virually enclosed drive bay below the floppy drive bay.

None. There is a barely audible high frequency whine from the drive during post and boot of OS. After the OS is loaded and running, the whine goes away and the drive is silent.

I would recommend this drive to my friends. I purchased the Seagate ST3250310AS as part on a upgrade project to modernize my Pastor's ailing six year old computer. The drive I recieved had 3.AAC firmware. The comments by the Newegg community about performance defficiencies of the 3.AAK firmware of its 16MB brethern were bothersome and compelled me to purchase this 8MB model. In my opinion, this drive is the better deal. After the Pastor's PC was upgraded this harddrive delivered responsive and reliable performance. The SATA ACHI Controller with the SATA 3.0G interface was used for this drive. Its average read performance (tested with HDTUNE) was ~40% greater than the 2001-vintage ATA100 drive it replaced. The completed Pastor PC upgrade: ASUS M2A-VM 690G AM2 Mobo, AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ (65W) CPU, Mushkin 996529R 2GB DDR2-800 Memory, Pioneer DVR-112D DVD Combo Burner, Seagate 250GB ST3250310AS Harddrive, Seasonic SS-300 SFD SFX12V Power supply,

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TOP CRITICAL REVIEW
50/50

Bought 2 of the drives and got everything set up for RAID0. installed drivers and windows 7 and its rating system gave it a 5.9 for read/write speeds.

One of my two drives died 3 days later with only ~10 hours of use on it. just sent it in for an RMA.

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Features & Details

  • 7200 RPM 8MB Cache
  • SATA 3.0Gb/s

Specifications

Model
BrandSeagate
SeriesBarraCuda 7200.10
ModelST3250310AS
PackagingBare Drive
Performance
InterfaceSATA 3.0Gb/s
Capacity250GB
NAND Flash Memory TypeDesktop
RPM7200 RPM
Cache8MB
Average Seek Time8.5ms
Average Write Time10ms
Average Latency4.16ms
Features
FeaturesKey Advantages - First 3.5-inch drive to utilize capacity- and reliability-boosting perpendicular recording technology - First drive to reach 750GB - a full year ahead of competition - enabling new solutions for data-intensive applications - Industry's most proven and established desktop hard drive available today - more than 16 million shipped to date - "One-stop shopping" with a broad range of capacity, cache and interface options for all your computing needs - Best-in-class environmental specifications and reliability features - Adaptive Fly Height offers consistent read/write performance from the beginning to the end of your computing workload - Clean Sweep automatically calibrates your drive - Directed Offline Scan runs diagnostics when storage access is not needed - RoHS-compliant design assures an environmentally conscious product - Enhanced G-Force Protection defends against handling damage - Seagate SoftSonic motor enables whisper-quiet operation Best-Fit Applications - Desktop and High-Performance PCs - Gamer PCs - Workstations - High-end PCs - Desktop RAID - Mainstream PCs - Point-of-sale devices/ATMs - USB/FireWire/eSATA personal external storage
Dimensions
Form Factor3.5"
Height (maximum)19.99mm
Width (maximum)101.60mm
Length (maximum)146.99mm
Additional Information
First Listed on NeweggNovember 21, 2019
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