Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500 GB 7200RPM SATA 3 GB/s 16 MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Hard Drive ST3500418AS-Bare Drive (Amazon Frustration-Free Packaging)

Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500 GB 7200RPM SATA 3 GB/s 16 MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Hard Drive ST3500418AS-Bare Drive (Amazon Frustration-Free Packaging) Review

Brand : Seagate

Seagate is known for their Barracuda hard drives. Currently, this is the only manufacturer I would buy a drive from since several La Cie drives failed because of faulty enclosures. After I had taken out 3-4 drives out of their enclosures and trashed them (still have the drives) another La Cie drive starting acting up so I took it out of it's enclosure and discovered it was the power connector to the circuit board, it was not making contact for some reason so it kept powering off and on, I fixed it so the connectors were always in contact and the drive now works perfectly, no power issues. I never had this problem with Seagate drives and because of this they are my brand for now on. I'm a film maker and artist and can't afford to lose any data.

Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500 GB 7200RPM SATA 3 GB/s 16 MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Hard Drive ST3500418AS-Bare Drive (Amazon Frustration-Free Packaging) Feature

• Spindle Speed is 7,200 RPM
• Delivers 500 GB capacity, 16 MB Cache
• Interface option is SATA 3Gb/s NCQ
• Ships with the industry most reliable and proven perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology
• Best-in-class rotational vibration tolerance ensures unrivalled performance in high spindle-density applications.

Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500 GB 7200RPM SATA 3 GB/s 16 MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Hard Drive ST3500418AS-Bare Drive (Amazon Frustration-Free Packaging) Overview

Combining proven components, state-of-the-art technology and industry-leading manufacturing expertise, the Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 drive - the 12th generation of this award-winning desktop hard drive family - delivers 1TB of high-performing, eco-friendly digital storage.

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Customer Reviews

great second hd- so far. - M. Santarelli - Northeast Ohio-USA
added a second hd for my sons computer so we could install some of the games he received as gifts.
this is perfect for extra storage. using it under win xp- after a simple format- it was ready to roll- works just fine- not noisy.
It appears they use a special packaging to hold the hard drive in place in the box. good idea.
remember when you buy oem hard drives- you do not get the little screws to hold them in place-
also have a spare sata cable on hand for the install.






Good replacement drive - Jon Levinson -
Quiet, fast, low energy consumption. Purchased one 7200.12 at a local retailer for use in an Apple Mac Dual 1.8GHz PowerPC G5 as an upgrade for my 7200.7 160 GB Seagate media drive. So pleased with it I purchased a second from Amazon to swap out my boot drive too. Had good luck with Seagate and Western Digital drives so I stick to what has worked for me.




Good service, sketchy hardware - Ronald Ih - Los Altos, CA United States
First, I would like to say that Seagate customer service was very responsive and responded to my RMA request quickly and professionally. I sent in a request and the CS rep contacted me over email and was very courteous. When I explained my problem he told me to send it in for RMA. I shipped my drive in and in about 2 weeks got my replacement drive.

The bad news is that the replacement drive seems to have the same problem. I have been trying to install Windows 7 and Steam (a game download service) on this drive. The problems began after installing Win7 and Steam and I started downloading my games. I would get an hour or two into the download and my system would hang. Not an application failure, not a blue screen, it would completely freeze. I've only ever seen that happen with a hard drive failure. On top of that, when the system finally reset itself, the Seagate drive would not be visible to the system BIOS, i.e. the drive was non-responsive. If I did a full shut down and cold start, the drive would come back online.

I am quite certain it isn't my system or Win7. I've been using my system with Vista Home 64-bit (installed on a WD drive) for over a year and it's been rock-solid stable. Overnight downloads were no problem, games, Photoshop, etc. no problem. I've installed Win7 on my laptop and it is totally stable.

However, once I started using this drive bad things started to happen and just last night I got a warning from Windows that the Seagate drive was failing. This is with my new replacement drive. Whatever the problem is, it is very very intermittent which makes it hard to pin down, but when it happens, it's pretty catastrophic. Total system lockup.

I know that if I contact Seagate CS, their service will send me a new drive if I ask for it, but what's the point? I've already had two of these drives in a row get flakey on me including a new replacement drive.

I'll probably just accept that I ate 0 on this drive and go get a Western Digital drive to replace it.

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