Reviews for Seagate Barracuda ST3750640AS 750 GB Internal Hard Drive

Barracuda 7200.10 750GB SATA Hard Drive

Strengths: FAST. Very good maximum throughput (best measured speed at 73MB/sec)

Weakness: Price is more than 25¢/GB. None other noticed so far.

I use this drive for large (75MB-300MB) Photoshop picture files.
Being able to load, save, and move these files around quickly is very important to me, and this drive does that very well.

I have been running this drive for a week. So far it is not noticeably louder or hotter than any of the other drives (WD250, MAX300, HIT160) that I am running in my machine.
It is installed with 3 other drives in the 3.5" drive cage in my cheap case, all about 1/2" apart. They are all cooled by a cheap, quiet 4" fan and they all run warm, but not hot, to the touch.
My guess that the reviewer who is complaining about high heat and noise has an unusually bad drive (or I have an unusually good one).

If you need large capacity and high speed, this is your drive. Otherwise get a 300GB drive because they are now at the price/size/performance sweet spot.

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Barracuda 7200.10 750GB SATA Hard Drive

Strengths: Capacity Speed

Weakness: None

Overall speed versus capacity is excellent. Very quiet. Some heat but no more than usual with Seagates. I'm running 16 of these in a home media server in RAID 5. Serves up three rooms with HD video with no problem. Other review mentions heat/noise issues. No problems here. Some variations from drive to drive with noise but nothing out of the ordinary. Housed in a Chenbro with ThermalTakes and thermistors on every other drive controller chip. Holds 30-35C, never above 2500 RPM. Vertical storage keeps speed unlike other high capacity drives. Power consumption is within Seagates specs.

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Failed after one month

Strengths: Worked great, for a month.

Weakness: Failed quicky, under low use.

About one month of use in a well ventilated (three fans) MythTV box that I was setting up, not even in active use for recording yet .
Date code of 06446.

The drive started with read errors after about 30 days, and when I rebooted it would not POST and allow the BIOS to see it. It does the click-whirr every 8 seconds or so, and nothing. I let it sit off 24 hours, then moved it to another box to try again, and still nothing.

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consumes too much power

Strengths: slightly faster than competition

Weakness: High power consumption, heat, noise.

I got burns on my hands after touching this thing which was running in idle mode 99% of the time in an Adaptec ASC-300 aluminum enclosure. The idle power consumption by specs is significantly higher than other drives. I regret that I overlooked this aspect of this drive. I would suggest running this drive using an active cooler with fans, which is not an option for me because of the noise. The drive is also noisier than I expected - you can hear vibration and spinning on idle and hard clicking noises when it reads/writes. Because of the heat problem, I doubt this disk will last more than a few months, so I intend to use it mostly for various junk data and backups. If you want to store important data, I would suggest buying 2 disks, run them in a mirror RAID and use an active cooler with fans - this would create a little jet plane noise in your room, but this would dissipate the idle 20-25 watts and make the reliability acceptable.

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Speed demon hard drives!

Strengths: Capacity & speed

Weakness: Price/GB is higher than smaller drives.

Just built a new system with lots of horsepower for handling video applications and 3D software in a Windows Vista 64-bit environment. I have 2 of these 750 GB drives in this system. The hard drives can provide sustained read/write speeds of 75/69 MB/sec using Storm test (Canopus.com). This easily surpasses anything I would currently need for capturing digital video. The sweet part is moving or copying huge video files between and within drives. These drives are speed demons. So far they have not appeared to run hot as one other reviewer mentioned.




System Description:

Barebones system: Shuttle P37P2
CPU: Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 Dual Core Processor
RAM: OCZ Technology 2GB PC2-5400 DDR2 DIMM
Hard drives: 2x Seagate Barracuda 7200 750GB, SATA II (ST3750640AS)
Video card: Sapphire Radeon X1600 Pro Video Card (512 MB, PCI-e 16x)
DVD burner: NEC ND-3550A Dual Layer DVD±RW Writer

OS: Windows Vista 64-bit (Build 5728)

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Warm, but fast and quiet

Strengths: 750GB in a single internal drive.

Weakness: Warm.

This drive does run relatively hot, but no more so than a typical 10,000 RPM Sata. It's a 750GB Drive - cooling should be a consideration before buying such an expensive and dense HD. Grab a coolmax aluminum enclosure, they're about $25 and will significantly reduce the drive temperature.

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Simply The Best!

Strengths: SATA connection, with up to 3Mpbs data transfer rates; very generous 5-Year Warranty; A massive 16MB of Cache --the most available -- for great stability; big 750GB storage capacity running 7200RPM.

Weakness: Might be a bit tricky when seting up the RAID with other SATA Hard Disks, but not too difficult you carefully read the instructions before setup. Other than that, no other probelms found.

One might ask, "What would you need a hard drive with 750GB of storage for?" Well I remember when someone asked me that similar question about 10 or 12 years ago, except that it was for a 4GB hard drive instead, and that was a pretty large size at it's time, but that was when the Internet was starting to emerge in the common household to mostly send & receive E-mails for dial-up WWW, and typing Word or Excel documents. But since then, we've had things like Broadband Internet Speeds, WI-FI, Bluetooth, VIOP, DVDs, music downloads, Live WebChats, and so on -- & when adding all that stuff up over time, that can take a lot of storage space on your hard drive, plus when you think abvout adding newer, upcomming technologies, like Windows Vista, Blue-Ray, HD-DVD, Bluetooth 2.0, 802.11N Wi-Fi, videophones, & High Definition -- suddenly 750GB won't seem like enough. As for this particular brand model, it's much faster & easier to setup compared to the old ATA (PATA) type, SEAGATE offers a 5-year warranty, compared to 1-, 2-, or 3-year ones from some other brands, and I've yet to experience any probelms and/or errors with any of them. It also offers the maximum amount of cache, 16MB, for better stability, compared to most others that might only offer 8MB.

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Great Hard drive

Strengths: large volume

Weakness: none yet - other than price

Bought for home theater PC (htpc). Large volume is excellant for storing DIVX movies and MP3's. Have not noticed drive too hot as per (few) other reviews. Very fast. Very quiet.

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Plenty of Space....Noise Issues Disappointing

Strengths: High capacity hard drive, fast operation.

Weakness: Pretty loud when compared to other hard drives I have.

I bought this hard drive to upgrade the hard drive in my TiVo Series 3. It certainly works, providing 3x the capacity of the standard TiVo Series 3 hard drive, but it's LOUD. This makes a big difference when you're watching TV, as that incessant hard drive noise can detract from the TV experience (unless you turn up the volume really high). I was disappointed with the noise. If you're using it in a PC/server, I don't think it'll bother you too much. But in the environment I'm using it in, the noise is disappointing.

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oem 1tb barracuda

Strengths: huge capacity huge cache short non-sequential seek times operating temperature

Weakness: needs underlighting and a lift kit to go with the rims and spoiler

Great drive. It follows the SATA II standard so it works with new computers well, but you can jumper it so you can use it with SATA ports. Fast, reliable, and works great in an array.

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Barracuda 7200.10 750GB Hard Drive (Serial ATA-300,...

Strengths: Provides your with enough storage space for all your digital needs.

Weakness: Little noisy.

This was a great buy from a seller I can trust and depend on. They are one of the best seller out there whom you can buy without any worries. Please keep up your great job.

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Barracuda 7200.10 750GB Hard Drive (Serial ATA-300,...

Strengths: fast speed, big capasity, affordable price

Weakness: no 4 pin power connector, little noise while processing data

this hard-drive is one the best on today's market. if your pc case does not have enough slots for hard drives it's better to purchase this one because nowadays people have so many video files which better be stored in one place; so three of those hard-drives will give you over 2 tb of space for your movie collection.

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Barracuda 7200.10 750GB Hard Drive

Strengths: affordable price

Weakness: no regular 4 pin power connector

This harddrive is pretty good. Of course it was better to buy 2x500 Gb for the price I paid for this harddrive but my PC did not have enough harddrive slots.

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Fast, Reliable, top notch drive

Strengths: Fast, Reliable, good price Per/GB

Weakness: none

Heard comments about heat and noise, but have not experienced myself. Have 3 750's installed a Gateway MicroBTX case. They perform very well. I was very weary after some bad experiences with other mfg. I use the drives for storing my DVD Collection and watch on Media Center 2005. At about 5GB's per movie, the space gets filled very quickly.

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Best Hard Drive with Price Under $100 and Capacity Atleast 40 GB

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