Seagate Barracuda 250 GB 7200 RPM SATA 3Gb/s 8MB Cache 3.5 Inch Internal Hard Drive ST3250318AS-Bare Drive

As usual another good purchase from Amazon. Got this Seagate Barracuda 500gb disk drive two weeks ago. Some years ago I was introdueced to Seagate drives and that worked perfectly until I recycled that PC. My gaming rig has a Maxtor II as its main drive and one day I ran a test on it had 1 bad sector, still works fine. So checked Amazon and found this Seagate. Purchased it, went to their web sight and downloaded Seagate discwizard and cloned my Maxtor and the seagate became my primary drive. Turned PC off, switched sata cable plugs so Seagate is in #1 plug and Maxtor is in #2 plug and erased Maxtor and now its the storage drive running fine and its 2 years old been running everyday, off late at night. Now the Seagate which is twice as fast, will be the work horse. Its so quiet some times I have to look at the HD light to know its working. Great price from Amazon, quick shipping, great product from Seagate. Very happy with purchase, all of my latest PC upgrades{Samsung Monitor, ASUS mobo, Seagate HD} have come from Amazon, sorry I didnt purchase my quad core AMD CPU and power spupply from here. Im in the market for new EVGA video card, which is all Ive ever owned because they make the best and have great customer support and it will come from here and this is my gaming machine. The other PC in the house will be getting some upgrades from Amazon also. Seagate makes great hard drives, and Amazon is a great place to purchase them from. BTW I read some of the bad reveiws but with electronics that happens. Ive never had a Seagate die on me. Purhcase one if you need it and good luck with your new hardware.

I bought this HDD when it was on sale for $45 so it was definitely worth the money. However, even at $66 (what it's going for at the time I'm writing this) I would still recommend buying this drive.I read these reviews before purchasing, so the very first thing I did after I installed the drive was update the firmware. It was a relatively painless process that took only a few minutes and worked great. Just make sure you follow the directions that are posted on the Seagate website. I have another Seagate hard drive installed on the same computer before buying this one, and thought that maybe it would cause problems with the firmware upgrade because it automatically detects your Seagate hard drive and does it all automatically. I didn't want the wrong hard drive to get the upgrade if it wasn't compatible, or ignore the new hard drive, etc.. but there were no problems. It detects which hard drive(s) is/are compatible and upgrades the firmware accordingly.I have had absolutely no problems with this drive since I've had it and considering how easy upgrading the firmware was, I've given this product a five star review. It's pretty fast, very quiet, and has plenty of space. Now only if the SSD's were this affordable...

I purchased this drive on November 11, 2009 for use with my Netgear NAS. As I write this, I've owned the drive for about a month and it has performed fine so far - no reallocated or bad sectors, etc. However, periodically I notice it making two clicks in a row - "click, click". Not sure if this is due to its being in the NAS - as opposed to installed in a computer - or what, but it seems to perform fine otherwise and the health logs in my NAS do not indicate any issues at all. The clicking is not constant, so perhaps it is because the drive is syncing with the other one or something....who knows. If the drive does fail, well, my data is mirrored onto the other drive on my NAS and backed up to two separate external USB drives AND backed up onto my netbook, and then I guess I'll deal with Seagate's warranty.With technology, you cannot have too much redundancy. :-)I purchased this drive because it is on the ReadyNAS compatible hardware list and the Seagates seemed to have fewer issues than the Western Digital drives.As far as performance, well, it seems just fine. My NAS came with a 500GB drive from the factory, and I believe it too was a Seagate. I've noticed no significant performance difference at all since installing the drive, so I'm happy as my NAS was performing fine before this drive. I'd wager a bet that performance will be more directly and noticeably affected by what interface you are using to connect to the drive, rather than the drive itself.For what it's worth, I had a 1TB USB Western Digital that I was using prior to my purchasing the NAS, and it never gave me any problems during the year I owned it.