Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 750 GB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s with NCQ 32MB Cache 3.5 Inch Internal Bare Drive ST3750525AS

I got this Seagate internal hard drive with the Amazon gold box deal of a sweet $46.99 price. A price range of $47 - $60 is very good for a 1TB hard drive that also has 7200 rpm and 6gb/s.So far, after about a week's usage, I've experienced faster loading and data transfer. It has been only a week but I will update in couple months whether the drive performs well or fails (I'm hoping I won't need to update you all regarding failures).-Personally for me, I used this drive as a secondary drive for my PC. I installed Windows 7 on a Western Digital 500 GB Caviar Blue SATA 3 Gb/s 7200 RPM 16 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Desktop Hard Drive - WD5000AAKS. I install programs, games, and add movies to this as a secondary hard drive so that I could load quickly for my PC. If you have any trouble installing this hard drive as a secondary drive, here are instructions on how I did it:1) Connect the Sata power and sata cable before turning on the PC2) Load up your BIOS to make sure your computer reads it3) If your computer loads up and it reads the drive, then you're fine. Horray 931GB of storage. If you don't see the seagate drive available yet, update the drive with Seagate's firmware for this product. Here's the link : [...]4) After finishing up the firmware update (perhaps will need to restart), Search for Disk management, or under Administrative Tools reading "Create or format hard disk partitions." From there you should see the Seagate 1TB hard drive. Now you should be able to format the hard drive and you're good to go.Overall, I'm fairly happy so far. It's very quiet for a hard drive that has 1Tb and is 7200rpm.

I have to say I was very nervous about buying this. So many buyers reporting so many problems with hard disk drives from practically all manufacturers. Some of the manufacturer explanations about rough transport seemed plausible, but too often used as the go to reason. They cannot all have been handled by the Samsonite Gorilla. Mine came in the Seagate cardboard box with the anti impact plastic caps at each end. The Seagate box was inside another larger cardboard box containing other items I ordered. I intentionally did not order the drives one by themselves in order to force there to be another box and packaging around the Seagate box. The drives were in anti-static bags. So my out of box experience was excellent. I ground strapped my right wrist and my right ankle to true electrical ground and also electrically grounded my system box. Three of these are in my pc. I also have a fourth in a Thermaltake Max 5 eSATA external drive enclosure hooked to my SetTop cable box DVR for overflow of TV programs. The pc based drives get moderate use. The DVR setup is used a little more than the PC, but only a few hours a day. Honestly, there's not that much on TV worth watching. :-) All of the drives so far have been reliable, quiet, no complaints whatsoever. On the PC they are very fast. If you can get one on sale, they are relatively obsolete now, it is worth the try if it has not been abused. Handle with care and use ground straps and true grounds. Recommended even though it is older. I would buy again if needed. If no longer available I would try the Constellation 3 3.5 series because they have a bigger cache. 5 Star for me. Hope they work for you too.

I bought this on a goldstar special because I had a "feeling" my resident hard drive was going to throw a hissy fit. This was before my troubles began. Yep, my 600 GB drive started losing space even though I wasn't using any space. Sometimes it would go, sometimes it would be stable. I have had it for a while and wasn't using any significant space until I started converting VHS and CD to digital formats. But I had tons of space and I was archiving to my external drives. But the space was disappearing. I'm still not sure what the problem was. Vista? Virus? Worms? I ran all the malware, disk allocations, disk saving stuff but nothing was detected. Checked all the info I could find. Some things were found by CCleaner, but no space gobblers.So I gave in when the hard drive had chewed up all but 37 GB, and I had only about 100 GB of files, plus the stuff in the program directorys. All of that space with nothing in it.I installed the seagate with the W7 system I have and things seem to have calmed down. I had to get the power and data cables, but they are cheap. Installation is a breeze when you have the ducks in a row.But this is one of the noisiest drives I've ever had. It's like a popcorn machine under a bunch of blankets. I've had it in just 2 days, so I can't remark on its longevity.But if it is reliable as my other Seagates, it should be just fine. (I hope)

So im pretty pissed. I am a freshmen and when i graduated eighth grade, i saved all my money from my grad party and birthday to build myself a shiny gaming pc. My friend told me what the best parts were. He got this hard drive, so i did the same. Everything was good for about a month, and then things got weird. Sometimes windows wouldn't start up and it would go to my setup screen. I would have to restart my pc five times just to get it to start up windows. After another week, it just stopped working altogether. I had my dads friend come over and he told me that my hard drive was the problem. My dad also told me that the same thing happened to him about a year ago. The next logical move was to get it replaced, because i was told that the hard drive came with a warranty, and it did. A FOUR YEAR OLD WARRANTY. What the hell seagate. So now im waiting for a new hardrive from a different company to arrive, and im still trying to get in touch to get a refund. What the f*** seagate...