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Seagate Barracuda 300 GB Internal Hard DriveIDE Ultra ATA/100 ATA-6 - 7200 rpm - 8 MB Buffer - MPN: ST3300831A See Product Details
$40.00 - $90.00
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Items In SSD & Hard Drives You Might Be Interested InProduct Details of Seagate Barracuda 300 GB Internal Hard DriveDescription Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 drives provide high-performance, highly-reliable storage for PCs and advanced applications, backed up by an industry-leading five-year warranty. Their best-in-class combination of capacity, performance, and support ideally suit them for such applications as high-performance PCs, media PCs, ATA-based servers and RAIDs, and cost-effective network attached storage (NAS). Quick Glance Internal/External: Internal Interface: IDE Ultra ATA/100 (ATA-6) Drive Width: 3.5 in Drive Type: Hard Drive Capacity: 300000 Rotational Speed: 7200 Cache Size: 8 Summary Product Title: Seagate Barracuda 300 GB Internal Hard Drive Manufacturer: Seagate Lowest Price: $40.00 Power Score: 3.7 | 13 Reviews Storage Capacity: 300 GB Interface Interface Type: IDE Ultra ATA/100 (ATA-6) Interface Connection: IDE - ATA/EIDE/ATAPI 40 pin Header Performance Drive Type: Hard Drive Rotational Speed: 7200 rpm Cache Size: 8 MB General Internal/External: Internal Form Factor Width: 3.5 in Dimensions: 1.03" Height x 0.46" Width x 5.79" Depth System Type: PC Weight: 1.40 lbs Warranty Information: 3 Year Limited URL: Manufacturer Link Interface Type: IDE Ultra ATA/100 (ATA-6) Height: 1.03 in Width: 4 in Depth: 5.787 in Dimensions Weight: 1.40 lbs Dimensions: 1.03" Height x 0.46" Width x 5.79" Depth Warranty Warranty Information: 3 Year Limited More Info URL: Manufacturer Link Warranty Information: 3 Year Limited Network Adapter System Type: PC Controller Attributes Interface Type: IDE Ultra ATA/100 (ATA-6) Interface Connection: IDE - ATA/EIDE/ATAPI 40 pin Header Host Transfer Rate: 100 MBps (800 Mbps) Ports Interface Connection: IDE - ATA/EIDE/ATAPI 40 pin Header Additional Specifications Frequency Band: SoftSonic motor RoHS-compliant Enhanced G-Force Protection Recording Method: 16/17 EPRML Available Sectors: 488397168 Best Fit Applications: Mainstream and high-performance PCs Small workgroup servers in businesses, education and government Video, digital photo and e-mail storage on PC-based home media servers Storage of fixed-content information that is actively referenced but changed infrequently (medical records, active data archives, financial statements, videos, digital photos) PCs optimized for gaming Maximum Internal Data Transfer Rate: 95 MBps (760 Mbps) Average Latency: 4.16 ms Reviews on Seagate Barracuda 300 GB Internal Hard Drive
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twbutler
- Dec 3, 2005
Nice, spacious, quiet driveStrengths: Very quiet Lots of storage space Weakness: None I have been using the Barracuda 7200.8 300 GB ATA100 drive for about a week now. It installed like a charm in my new MythTv linux system, and is very quiet and relatively cool. The only curious comment I would make is that the drive will occasionally go through short periods of "ticking" - I have read somewhere online that these are internal diagnostics that are supposed to end within a few days...
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rogersoles
- Oct 21, 2005
Seagate 300GB PATAStrengths: Price, size, performance, reliability, warranty Weakness: Warranty return procedure Seagate has become one of the absolute best drives in the industry -- and they stand behind their products with a 5 year warranty. The drive itself comes well packaged in the retail box along with everything you could possibly need to install it in your computer (except 3.5" -> 5.25" brackets if you need to mount it into a 5.25" bay -- but those are extra cost with any drive). The drive uses the...
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T Bear
- Sep 12, 2005
Seagate Barracuda 300 GB HDStrengths: Cost at Circuit City after rebates: $99.00 plus tax. VERY fast and very quiet. Works with ADS Technologies Dual Link Combo Drive Kit USB 2.0. Great for backing up data via USB 2.0. Weakness: Not a one (it could be free). Outstanding value. Cost $99.00 plus tax at Circuit City. Installed in ADS Technologies Dual Link Combo Drive Kit USB 2.0 for external backup of 4 computer home LAN. HD and DLX185 are super quiet and fast. Complete format of HD in NTSF via USB 2.0 in about 6 minutes. Easy to swap HD in DLX185 which can hold DVD and CDRW drives. Great for backing up 4 networked home computers. I connect to each...
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rebthor
- Dec 7, 2005
300 GB PATA DelightStrengths: 5 year warranty 7200 RPM 8 MB Cache Weakness: "Only" 8 MB cache I picked this drive up because I needed a HD fast and this was the best deal that a local store had. Not that I mind at all as this 300 GB Barracuda has great bang for the buck with 133GB platters, (uses 2.5 in this case), a 7200 RPM rotational rate (which should tranfer into faster average seek times) and a decent 8 MB of cache to help keep more oftenly used data closer to the rest of the...
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CoryBlackman
- Mar 2, 2006
These Drives Are Total Failures...!Strengths: Holds data...but just for a few months. Weakness: Loses partitions, data, and MBR. I have bought two of these particular 300GB Seagates and both have degraded to useless, of course i can return them to Seagate for refurbished drives, that sucks. Seagate says there is no recall on these, but two failures for me indicates something is quite wrong. Beware of massive data loss when using these drives. i've never seen anything like this, it is like a continuous total head and...
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razakanjee
- Jun 6, 2005
Seagate Barracuda 300 GB Internal Hard DriveStrengths: Fast and reliable Weakness: None I bought this to replace my old 80gb hard drive. Installed and was detected by the bios with out any problems. Installed the operating system
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Knightrid
- Sep 5, 2005
Ultra ATA, not Serial ATAStrengths: Seems stable and fast. Installation disk made setup a snap. Weakness: Not sure whether I can use this when I upgrade my computer next year. Tried transfering OS from my 60Gb to this harddisk but failed because NTLDR missing. Bought this to replace my 60GB harddisk. So far no complaints except that I couldn't transfer my OS due to missing NTLDR. Kit came with screws and ribbon. Did come across some negative reviews of this model elsewhere, but with a 5 year warranty, that's something none of the other HD manufacturers offer.
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qwerty23993
- Aug 17, 2007
Avoid SeagateStrengths: none Weakness: reliability return policy Seagate used to have a good reputation. I bought 2 of these drives, from TWO DIFFERENT stores, about 2 months apart (unlikely that they're from the same bad batch). One was installed in the PC, for data storage. The second was in USB enclosure and used as a mirror of the 1st drive. connected/turned on VERY rarely -- only to make backups. The first one completely died after about 6 months (head...
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hughnile
- Dec 31, 2006
Drives failed within a couple of weeksStrengths: Works fine, is quite, 5 year guarantee--reason I bought it Weakness: 2 out of 10 of these have failed within a couple of weeks of operation. I bought 10 7200.9 drives in the last 6 months. I bought a 250 GB from Tiger Direct. It failed after a couple of weeks of use--Seagate replaced it. I then bought 9 300 GB Baracuda from Fry's. These were for a NAS now one of these has failed after running only a couple of weeks. Sounds like there is a problem in Seagate land..... Advertisement  
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Great Drive, Great Price
Strengths: Quiet, HUGE, nice 8MB cache.
Weakness: ATA/100 instead of 133.
Found this bad puppy on sale @ Fry's for $70 the day after Christmas. Slapping on the $5 bonus rebate from PriceGrabber is just icing on the cake!! The drive is quiet, much more so than my Maxtor 160GB, although the Maxtor is ATA/133, so it serves as my boot drive. I put this 300GB monster in an external case, so now I can back up multiple systems. Highly recommended.