Seagate Barracuda ST3750640AS 750 GB Internal Hard Drive

Barracuda 7200.10 750GB SATA Hard Drive

Strengths: FAST. Very good maximum throughput (best measured speed at 73MB/sec)

Weakness: Price is more than 25¢/GB. None other noticed so far.

I use this drive for large (75MB-300MB) Photoshop picture files. Being able to load, save, and move these files around quickly is very important to me, and this drive does that very well. I have been running this drive for a week. So far it is not noticeably louder or hotter than any of the other drives (WD250, MAX300, HIT160) that I am running in my machine. It is installed with 3 other drives...
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I use this drive for large (75MB-300MB) Photoshop picture files.
Being able to load, save, and move these files around quickly is very important to me, and this drive does that very well.

I have been running this drive for a week. So far it is not noticeably louder or hotter than any of the other drives (WD250, MAX300, HIT160) that I am running in my machine.
It is installed with 3 other drives in the 3.5" drive cage in my cheap case, all about 1/2" apart. They are all cooled by a cheap, quiet 4" fan and they all run warm, but not hot, to the touch.
My guess that the reviewer who is complaining about high heat and noise has an unusually bad drive (or I have an unusually good one).

If you need large capacity and high speed, this is your drive. Otherwise get a 300GB drive because they are now at the price/size/performance sweet spot.

By jdsppg - Aug 18, 2006

Barracuda 7200.10 750GB SATA Hard Drive

Strengths: Capacity Speed

Weakness: None

Overall speed versus capacity is excellent. Very quiet. Some heat but no more than usual with Seagates. I'm running 16 of these in a home media server in RAID 5. Serves up three rooms with HD video with no problem. Other review mentions heat/noise issues. No problems here. Some variations from drive to drive with noise but nothing out of the ordinary. Housed in a Chenbro with ThermalTakes and...
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Overall speed versus capacity is excellent. Very quiet. Some heat but no more than usual with Seagates. I'm running 16 of these in a home media server in RAID 5. Serves up three rooms with HD video with no problem. Other review mentions heat/noise issues. No problems here. Some variations from drive to drive with noise but nothing out of the ordinary. Housed in a Chenbro with ThermalTakes and thermistors on every other drive controller chip. Holds 30-35C, never above 2500 RPM. Vertical storage keeps speed unlike other high capacity drives. Power consumption is within Seagates specs.

By teflonron - Jul 19, 2006

Failed after one month

Strengths: Worked great, for a month.

Weakness: Failed quicky, under low use.

About one month of use in a well ventilated (three fans) MythTV box that I was setting up, not even in active use for recording yet . Date code of 06446. The drive started with read errors after about 30 days, and when I rebooted it would not POST and allow the BIOS to see it. It does the click-whirr every 8 seconds or so, and nothing. I let it sit off 24 hours, then moved it to another box to...
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About one month of use in a well ventilated (three fans) MythTV box that I was setting up, not even in active use for recording yet .
Date code of 06446.

The drive started with read errors after about 30 days, and when I rebooted it would not POST and allow the BIOS to see it. It does the click-whirr every 8 seconds or so, and nothing. I let it sit off 24 hours, then moved it to another box to try again, and still nothing.

By Zephrant - Aug 19, 2006

Speed demon hard drives!

Strengths: Capacity & speed

Weakness: Price/GB is higher than smaller drives.

Just built a new system with lots of horsepower for handling video applications and 3D software in a Windows Vista 64-bit environment. I have 2 of these 750 GB drives in this system. The hard drives can provide sustained read/write speeds of 75/69 MB/sec using Storm test (Canopus.com). This easily surpasses anything I would currently need for capturing digital video. The sweet part is moving or...
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Just built a new system with lots of horsepower for handling video applications and 3D software in a Windows Vista 64-bit environment. I have 2 of these 750 GB drives in this system. The hard drives can provide sustained read/write speeds of 75/69 MB/sec using Storm test (Canopus.com). This easily surpasses anything I would currently need for capturing digital video. The sweet part is moving or copying huge video files between and within drives. These drives are speed demons. So far they have not appeared to run hot as one other reviewer mentioned.




System Description:

Barebones system: Shuttle P37P2
CPU: Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 Dual Core Processor
RAM: OCZ Technology 2GB PC2-5400 DDR2 DIMM
Hard drives: 2x Seagate Barracuda 7200 750GB, SATA II (ST3750640AS)
Video card: Sapphire Radeon X1600 Pro Video Card (512 MB, PCI-e 16x)
DVD burner: NEC ND-3550A Dual Layer DVD±RW Writer

OS: Windows Vista 64-bit (Build 5728)

By JustPlainDon - Oct 1, 2006

Warm, but fast and quiet

Strengths: 750GB in a single internal drive.

Weakness: Warm.

This drive does run relatively hot, but no more so than a typical 10,000 RPM Sata. It's a 750GB Drive - cooling should be a consideration before buying such an expensive and dense HD. Grab a coolmax aluminum enclosure, they're about $25 and will significantly reduce the drive temperature.

By Stangger; - Sep 27, 2006