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Seagate Barracuda 300 GB Internal Hard Drive

Strengths: Quiet, fast, 5 year warranty

Weakness: None

The drive is very quiet and fairly fast. The Seagate offers 5 year warranty. I have purchased many Seagate drives in the past and even when they failed, the replacment was painless.

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Seagate Barracuda 300 GB Internal Hard Drive

Strengths: Quiet, Fast

Weakness: none

This drive is faster and a lot quieter than my 250Gb Maxtors and it runs cooler too. I liked it so much i purchased a second drive.

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7200 ST3300831AS 300GB Hard Drive

Strengths: Big & quiet

Weakness: Price

The hard drive works great and with minimal noise. No complaints with the drive so far. Wish these things went for about $25 a pop! And there's my thirty words.

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fast and quiet SATA hard disk

Strengths: fast, quiet

Weakness: none so far

as its predecessors,this hdd has the feature of quietness. and thanks for its large single plate capacity, it is fairly fast. seagate has a 60 months warranty. so i will not be bothered by the 7200.8 series discussion on its higher failure rate ( i used it for 3 months plus and met no problem.)

wish this be helpful to you.

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Seagate Barracuda 300 GB Internal Hard Drive

Strengths: Warranty. It's Seagate.

Weakness: None.

Nearly the best value on the market out there. Fast transfer rate, quiet, bullet-proof. Never had a problem with a Seagate drive. Would've bought the 400g model had the dollar-to-gig ratio been a bit closer to this drive. Bought eight at ~$200/ea from ZipZoomFly. Can't get a better deal on eBay.

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Seagate Barracuda 300 GB Internal Hard Drive

Strengths: Very quiet; almost silent

Weakness: none

279+GB after formatting for OSX. Two of these drives went into a PowerMac dual 2.0GHz G5. Amazingly quiet operation. Even with the PowerMac's fans just idling along at a "rest" state, the drives are almost silent. I put the Mac on AppleCare (3 yr warranty); with the drives warranted for 5 years, that makes this machine pretty worry-free. (Of course, still need to have a beefy UPS, right?)

Yes; I'd buy again.

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Seagate Barracuda 300 GB Internal Hard Drive

Strengths: Large capacity. Quieter than my stock AMD 64 cpu fan.

Weakness: Failed within the first week of ownership.

I bought the drive to hold a few large files that I tend to download every so often. I also was in the process of building a new computer, so it would be useful when formatting and reinstalling my OS. After moving all of the files over (about 200 GB) the computer mysteriously locked up and restarted. I never saw the files in Windows again. It took me several days to recover all of the files and their missing parts. It seems that I received a defective drive because a drive test failed on more than 75% of the device. I will still buy a Seagate, but these higher density drives are still too fragile for important documents.

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excellent hard drive

Strengths: Seagate reputation, 5 year warranty, quiet, fast

Weakness: I think the Bounce Back software is pretty worthless

Well, I've had luck with Seagate drives in the past, and I've heard only good reviews, so I went with Seagate again when it came time to add storage. The price (with pesky rebate) was just about right (a little under $0.50/GB). That's about half of what I paid a year ago.

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Seagate 7200.8 ST3300831AS 300GB Hard Drive

Strengths: Quiet, Fast, SATA, NCQ, 5 Year warranty

Weakness: No Molex power connector

Quiet, fast hard drive with SATA interface and NCQ. 7200 RPM with 8 MB cache. Pretty standard nowadays. All Seagates come with a great 5 year warranty. Good $/GB ratio. Requires SATA power connector. No Molex connector

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Very nice hard drive

Strengths: Huge capacity, installation kit included, software included, 5 years warranty.

Weakness: Noisy than expected. low data transfer rate

This is the second serial ATA drive I got. And this is also the largest hard drive I have. The installation and partition is smooth. And now it is working as the primary drive of my desktop. The noise level is a little than what I expected. The data transfer rate seems not high. I copy 50GB from USB 2.0 external drive to this drive and it takes more than half an hour. I guess part of the reason is that the interface rate is only 150M/S. This should be improved for such a huge capacity drive.

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Nice hard drive

Strengths: SATA interface. Drive runs quiet and fast. The 5-year Seagate warranty is awesome.

Weakness: There is a slight high pitch sound that can be annoying sometimes.

The price of 300GB hard drive has came down enough for the mass. I paid less than $100 for it. Knowing it's covered by the 5-year warranty gives me peace of mind to use it to the fullest extend.

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Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 300GB SATA300 ST3300831AS

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