Product Description

With more than 16 million drives shipped, the Barracuda 7200.10 drive family offers the industry's flagship perpendicular recording product and provides a best-in-class combination of reliability, capacity and performance.

Product Details

• Brand: Seagate
• Model: ST3500630AS
• Dimensions: 1.02" h x 4.00" w x 5.79" l, .2 pounds
• Memory: 0MB
• Hard Disk: 500GB
• Processors: 1

Features

• Ships in Certified Frustration-Free Packaging
• Capacity: 500 GB
• SATA 3 GB/s
• 16 MB cache; 7200 RPM
• 3.5 Inch

Customer Reviews

Performs Well!
I purchased several of these for a striped array. They all worked out of the box without an issue. I would recommend it. Obviously don't forget to set the jumper to SATA2 if you have the appropriate controller.

Also, all you get is the drive in a plain brown box. No manual and no cables.

Great hard drive
This is a great price for a SATA 500 gigabyte hard drive. Be warned - it comes with no supporting documentation, nor does it come with a SATA cable. But the installation instructions are readily available at the Seagate website, and a SATA cable can be had for 6 or 7 bucks. In addition, you'll need to buy a hard drive cradle or caddy that fits your particular hard drive bay. Installation was pretty easy for me - plug the cable into one of my two SATA ports, hook up the power tab from the computer's power supply, and bang - you're in business with the most affordable hard drive of its type. Note - I've heard some people complain that the drive is noisy. This was the case for me at first - because the SATA cable I used had a rather bulky connector which stuck out from the hard drive and made contact with the computer case. The case itself amplified the hard drive noise. A little pad of thin rubber solved the problem completely. Keep in mind I use my computer as a digital audio work station on which I produce a radio show - so any noise would be a real problem when I record from my microphone. It's not been an issue thus far.

easy installation, no sata cables with it.
I bought this HD to replace a crashed sangsung HD of my desktop. It has 500GB, efective capacity is 472GB. Installation was very easy, my desktop recognize it at first time. It is working not as a sata 3.0Gb/s, it is working as a sata 1.5Gb/s, no problem at all.

Perpendicular Recording HD, cool!!!

Just one thing, no cables at all, no sata data cable, no sata power cable, no nothing, I got one from my motherboard.

4 stars, lets see what will happen with it.