Product Description

Combining proven components, state of the art technology and expertise in volume manufacturing, the Seagate Barracuda ST310005N1A1AS-RK drive delivers 1TB of reliable digital storage with 32MB Cache, and is backed by a 5-year limited warranty. The Barracuda ST310005N1A1AS-RK drive is the ideal choice for mainstream PCs, performance PCs, gaming and workstations, and desktop RAID devices. You no longer need to forego storing any digital content, including high-definition video, large multimedia projects and data-heavy CAD files. The Barracuda ST310005N1A1AS-RK drive increases capacity without increasing platter or head count and enhances reliability by decreasing internal components and increasing magnetic stability. You also get DiscWizard (Windows only) that copies your old hard disk drive and migrates all data, operating systems and programs to you new drive automatically. So with the performance, storage capacity and a great price, upgrade today with the Seagate Barracuda ST310005N1A1AS-RK 1TB drive! Worry free warranty covers parts and labor with the 5-year limited Warranty System Requirements - Microsoft Vista, Windows XP/2000 Pro, PowerMac G5 and newer with Mac O/S 10.2, Linux Compatible, SATA port

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3500 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Seagate
• Model: ST310005N1A1AS-RK
• Platform: Windows
• Format: CD
• Dimensions: 3.80" h x 7.10" w x 9.50" l, 2.30 pounds
• Memory: 32MB
• Hard Disk: 1000GB

Features

• Box Contents - Barracuda 3.5 1TB internal Hard Drive, SATA Interface Cable, SATA Power Adapter, CD with software and manual
• Delivers the industry's highest capacity 1TB (1000GB) of Storage
• Serial ATA connection for fast 3Gb/s data rate transfer speeds
• High performance 32MB cache buffer and 7200RPM drive
• Seatools - Fast easy to use diagnostic software

Customer Reviews

High Capacity, High Performance, High reliability
The first thing to be mentioned, is that no one can rightfully complain about not having 1TB of storage, every drive, for the longest time is rated raw. When I formatted mine to NTFS it was 931.5GB, about 20GB more than I even expected.

The second thing to understand, is every drive model, from every manufacturer, has a pretty standard, and somewhat high, DOA (here I am considering DOA as literally dead on arrival, and 1 week and under) rate. If you receive a DOA, rate the replacement, or the service you received. If you get two DOA's, or get a replacement that is DOA; complain freely.

I have my drive (I have the exact drive, except I purchased it OEM) inside a Nexstar 3 enclosure (capable of recognizing all 1TB) via esata (you can use USB 2.0 with this enclosure as well). The esata run into my Asus G2S-B2 via a Rosewill Expresscard32 2-port esata expansion. In short, the performance I received, will reflect SATAII internal performance Identically.

The first thing to do, if your sata controller can handle auto-negotiation, is to remove the tiny gray jumper entirely, this will increase your burst performance.

Seq. Write - 70 MB/s Seq. Read - 105 MB/s Buffered Write - 59 MB/s Buffered Read - 62 MB/s Random Reading - 54 MB/s This drive is faster than the kin Seagate inside my laptop as the main disk. For those of you who can't use it internally or through esata, you will not see this kind of performance, the theoretical throughput of USB 2.0 is almost half the seq. read.

These tests are run through PC Wizard 2008, important, with the jumper installed. I didn't wish to assume people know what it is and know if their sata controller can use it removed. The performance is slightly better, but nothing substantial, without the jumper (it effectively dubs the drive down to sata 1).

I've basically torture tested this drive since I received it almost a month ago, it is perfect. Generally, I've found, drives fail sooner than later; this drive will most likely serve me for quite some time.

I recommend this drive over any other, if the performance is not higher (Hitachi's are snoozfest), then the fail rate is much much lower (Samsung's new 1TB is notoriously bad, unacceptably high fail rate). etc.

Be careful with this Drive
Be careful with this drive, Seagate has a known problem with many of it's recent Baracuda High Capacity Hard Drives, where after 3-6 months, the drive simply fails to boot.

If you purchase this drive, you must go to the [..] site and use the drive detect software they offer there to see what version of firmware is on your drive. If there is an updated version of firmware then you need to flash update your drive.

If you are uncomfortable doing this, then i would suggest buying another vendor's drive.

The master seagate forum thread discussing these problems is here: [..] (well over a thousand messages).

You can also do a search for "ST3100034AS problems" on google.

Excellent performance and reliability
This drive has been nothing short of amazing throughout the six months that I've owned and used it. It's very quiet, ultra-fast and extremely reliable. I've had two Western Digital HDD's and one Hitachi that failed very early. I'd like to get my jab in by saying that both of their customer support numbers and sites were worthless. I've never had to use Seagate's.

I currently have this HDD mounted in my Klegg MediaShare (I love this thing!) unit. I've backed up approximately 360 of my DVD's (ISO format) to it using DVD Fab Platinum and DVD Shrink 3.2 and can now downsize my storage space for the originals to four 100-disc spindles instead of three media cabinets. I highly recommend both products as they are both high quality. Seagate is the only brand that I've had truly had success with over the years and I consider myself a loyal customer because of their reliability and performance.