Tag : rk 320gb, hard drive, internal sata, 16mb cache, seagate st303204n1a1as

Company : Seagate List Price : $109.99 Amazon Price : $64.00 Used Price : Average customer review :

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Features

• Box Contents - Seagate 3.5 Internal 320GB Hard Drive, Serial ATA cable, mounting screws, Software CD and quick install guide
• 320GB Hard Drive Capacity
• 7200 RPM
• 16MB Cache Buffer
• Serial ATA connection

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Customer reviews

Great Drive, Reliable and Fast
This seagate hard drive has proved very reliable for me.
It hasn't had a hiccup since the day I bought it.

On paper, it's suppose to be a little faster but also noisier than the Western Digital hard drives.

My experience is that the differences really aren't noticable.

However, I always choose Seagate because of its 5 year warranty. (Western Digital has 3 years)

Great Drive
My experience with Seagate has been altogether different. I have never had a single failed Seagate drive that I can remember, and my first drive was a really old 20mb MFM unit.

I currently have 7 Seagate hard drives. One is this model, 2 are 250gb SATA drives, 1 is a 146gb 10k SCSI, 2 are 160GB SATA drives and the last is a 40gb PATA drive. All of the SATA drives have been in use for 18 months now without a single problem.

One thing to note about SATA drives and Seagates in particular, is that they are sensitive to cheap power supplies and controllers. On the power supply especially, make sure you use a native SATA power connector and not one of the 4-pin molex to SATA adapters. The adapter is missing a power lead (orange) that is apparently very crucial to the Seagate design. I had thought I had a failing drive for a time and I traced the problem to the 4-pin adapter, which Seagate actually bundles with their retail drive kits. I replaced the power supply in the system with one that has native SATA connectors and the problem went away.

I know there are the occasional bad runs in manufacturing, but Seagate drives carry a full 5 year warranty on them. Our company uses Seagate drives exclusively and we install thousands of them each year. We would not use Seagate on that level of volume if they did not make a quality product.

NEVER buy Seagate
I'd like to share my Seagate experience with anyone who is remotely considering purchasing a Seagate drive. I purchased a 250GB drive, it failed within 9 months.

The first RMA drive I received from Seagate ($20 my cost for shipping) was Dead on Arrival.

The second RMA drive I received from Seagate ($20 my cost for shipping) was Dead on Arrival.

The third RMA drive I received from Seagate ($20 my cost for shipping) was Dead on Arrival.

After complaining all the way up the corporate chain via "Community Relations" I received another refurbished RMA drive of a larger capacity (320GB). It worked.... for a while. I use the drive to run monthly backups. It's in a USB enclosure and the drive failed roughly the sixth time I turned it on.

I've begun the complaint process with Seagate yet again, although I doubt it will lead anywhere. I've also filed a complaint with my states Attorney General.

I work in I.T. and Seagate used to mean quality, but no longer is this true. I've done some research at work and it seems Seagate drives fail at more than twice the frequency of their competitors. RMA drives from Seagate have even worse reliability.

If your data is important to you DO NOT place it on a Seagate disk drive.