Product DescriptionSeagate Barracuda (ST3500630AS) 500GB SATA300 7200RPM Hard Drive
The Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 desktop hard drive features innovative perpendicular recording technology and is the first drive on the market to provide capacities up to 750 GB. Barracuda 7200.10 hard drives deliver superb performance, efficiency, speed and durability for all your application needs.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - No problems at all, perfectly packaged!
This hard drive worked out perfectly for my Netgear RND2150 ReadyNAS Duo 500 GB Desktop Network Attached Storage. You will need to buy some mounting screws though to install it in the ReadyNAS Duo. It was easy to install and works perfectly.
The packaging was also excellent. It came in an anti-static bag and lodged between two custom plastic pieces to keep it from moving around in the box.
Rating: - Decent large capacity hard drive at a good price point
At the moment 500GB - 1 TB drives are selling at very good prices. I tend to buy Seagates due to their 5 year warranties though I've never had to take advantage of it.
I've purchased 30-40 HDs in the past for my PCs and friends PC's which I helped put together and I've never had any serious problems with any of the brands including Maxtor, Fujitsu, Quantum, WD, Hitachi and Seagate. Theres always been a group of people who rabidly bash one brand or another, including Seagate. Probably ... Read More
Rating: - sata hd
This is a good back up hard drive, but it wasnt formated. will buy many more in the future.
Rating: - A great drive undone by Amazon's negligent packaging
As noted in other reviews this is a bare drive, wrapped only in a thin plastic anti-static bag. In stark contrast to every other hard drive that I have ordered over the Internet, Amazon provides almost no protective packaging for the drive in shipment.
When I opened the package from Amazon, tossed on my front porch by the UPS driver, I noticed a few air-packs on top of the drive and ABSOLUTELY NO PROTECTION BETWEEN THE BOTTOM OF THE DRIVE AND THE BOTTOM OF THE BOX. In other words, the ... Read More
Rating: - Drive works fine
Currently being used in my ReadyNAS which hosts all our company data as a raid drive.