Product Description

The Barracuda 7200.11 drive offers the ideal combination of world-class technology and low totalcost of ownership. Highly leveraged from award-winning PMR technology the Barracuda 7200.11 Drive increases capacity per disk without increasing platter or head count. At the same time it enhances reliability by decreasing internal components and increasing magnetic stability at high areal densities.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #99 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Seagate
• Model: ST31000340AS
• Dimensions: 1.02" h x 4.00" w x 5.78" l, .0 pounds
• Hard Disk: 1000GB

Features

• 1 TB SATA NCQ internal hard drive is ideal for performance PCs, gaming, workstations, desktop RAID, and more
• 32 MB cache buffer; 7200 RPM for fast read/write times
• Perpendicular recording for increased data density
• Adaptive Fly Height offers consistent read/write performance from the beginning to the end of your computing workload
• 5-year limited warranty

Customer Reviews

OEM but installs easily
Arrived in a box in another box held by typical drive black plastic end holders. OEM so no cable/screws or software. Downloaded Max Blaster 5 from Seagate site to clone original drive. Takes 3 hr to format thru windows XP drive management and 1 and a half hour to copy 200 G from old drive with Max Blaster. Had to change BIOS to see both drives to clone. Moved new drive to boot position. Completely disconnected old drive before first reboot on new drive.

Don't buy oem hard drives online
Big and quiet. Five year warranty.
Much faster than my drives from just 3 years ago (though this is true with most new model Seagate, Western Digital, Hitachi, and Samsung drives).

I buy most of my computer parts, CDs, DVDs, books, etc online.
But I never buy OEM harddrives online. Every site with reviews has customers complaining about drives being DOA or, far worse, going dead two months later. And the reviews mention shoddy packaging.

Hard drives are delicate, the retail boxes are specially designed to absorb shock.

If you have a 1000 gig hard drive full of data, would you rather

a) have it been bought in a specially designed retail box that was delivered to a store as part of a large palette?

or

b) had it wrapped in bubble wrap, placed in a small individual box, and thrown around in several shipping warehouses before you got it.

dead after 3 weeks
Just a little over 3 weeks old and it died. Seagate's poor overseas tech support, of no help, they offer to send a `refurbished' drive (a used one) to replace what I purchased NEW. Called Seagate Corporate, no help, selecting numbers to more automated script recorded voices. No option to get to a real person or a operator. Good bye Seagate, poor service, poor drive. Save you money. Run from this company.