Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 - Hard drive - 400 GB - internal - 3.5" - SATA-300 - 7200 rpm - buffer: 16 MB Review

I've been very happy with my Seagate drive. Perhaps the best thing about Seagate drives, next to their reputation for reliability, is their drivers. They're very well laid out and user friendly. They walk you through the entire process of installing and setting up your drive. They help you format and partition with a breeze and will even enable your OS to read hard drives larger than 137GB for you. They make everything so simple and clear that I could easily imagine someone who's never even looked inside their own computer installing one of these drives with little difficulty.

My only real issues with the drive are two things. First, It's rather loud. I have a Maxtor drive in the same computer and I've never heard anything but the fainest whisper from it. The Seagate drive sounds like an old woman scraping nails across a pearl necklace every time it writes new data. Second, about 25GB seems to be missing from the drive. I know drives usually have a small portion thats inaccessible, but 25GB seems like a lot even for a 400GB drive

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Product Description:
The world today runs on information. Every time you access the Internet, hit "send", trade a stock online, use an ATM or even watch a Hollywood blockbuster movie with computer-generated special effects, you create, access and share tremendous amounts of digital information. Seagate is committed to developing the technology and manufacturing the products that help make it all happen.PRODUCT FEATURES:Best-in-class environmental specification and reliability features;New perpendicular recording technology enables higher areal density, fewer moving parts and increased dependability;Adaptive Fly Height offers consistent read/write performance from the beginning to the end of your computing workload;Clean Sweep automatically calibrates your drive;Directed Offline Scan runs diagnostics when storage access is not needed;RoHS Directive-compliant design assures you an environmentally conscious product;Enhanced G-Force Protection defends against handling damage;Seagate SoftSonic motor enables whisper-quiet operation.This product is designed for MD: special RAID edition

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