Seagate Desktop HDD 500GB - Review

Seagate Desktop HDD 500GB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s 16 MB Cache 3.5"- Internal Drive Retail Kit (ST3500641AS-RK)

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FEATURES AND SPECIFICATIONS

• 500GB storage capacity with SATA III, 6Gb/s NCQ Interface
• Seagate AcuTrac servo technology delivers dependable performance
• Seagate OptiCache technology boosts overall performance by as much as 45% over the previous generation.
• Seagate Smart Align technology provides a simple, transparent migration to Advanced Format 4K sectors.
• Best Fit Applications include: Desktop or all-in-one PCs, Home servers, PC-based game systems, Desktop RAID, Direct attached external storage devices (DAS), Network-attached storage devices (NAS)

Seagate Desktop HDD 500GB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s 16 MB Cache 3.5"- Internal Drive Retail Kit (ST3500641AS-RK)Product Description

Capacity:500GB | Style:HDD

Seagate 500GB Internal SATA 16MB Cache Hard Drive. The blazingly fast, amazingly easy way to store and work with massive amounts of data. With their 3Gb/sec data rate, Serial ATA interface and Native Command Queuing (NCQ) technology, these highly advanced drives improve desktop performance.

Product informationCapacity:500GB | Style:HDD

Technical Details

Summary

1. Screen Size 669.2913385826772 inches
2. RAM 16 MB
3. Hard Drive 500 GB Internal hard drive
4. Wireless Type 802.11b, 802.11a, 802.11g
5. Number of USB 2.0 Ports 1

Other Technical Details

• Brand Name Seagate
• Series Desktop (Barracuda)
• Item model number ST3500641AS-RK
• Hardware Platform PC
• Item Weight 14.6 ounces
• Product Dimensions 5.8 x 4 x 1 inches
• Item Dimensions L x W x H 5.78 x 4 x 1.03 inches
• Processor Count 1
• Computer Memory Type DRAM
• Flash Memory Size 500 GB
• Hard Drive Rotational Speed 7200

The Power of One
The Seagate Desktop HDD is the one hard drive for all your desktop applications. One drive for every need, supported by 30 years of trusted performance, reliability and simplicity.

Perfect When You Need To:
Build desktop or all-in-one PCs to equip home servers
Create PC-based gaming systems
Implement a desktop RAID
Outfit direct attached external storage devises (DAS)
Build network attached storage devices (NAS)


Proven Quality and Performance
Desktop HDDs are the world's most popular desktop storage solutions. With consistent quality and performance-enhancing innovations and features like native command queuing and perpendicular recording, Seagate delivers time—and time again.

Additionally, Desktop HDDs are produced using the most sophisticated manufacturing process in the industry, with a focus on environmental stewardship. Advanced power modes enable you to save more energy while in idle states—without sacrificing performance. Plus, 70 percent or more of the materials used to build Desktop HDD drives are recyclable. 

Maximizes Storage Densities
Desktop HDD, 1TB-per-disk technology incorporates 340,000 unique tracks in the width of a single inch. This incredible storage density drives new capacity possibilities and lowers your total storage costs.

Seagate AcuTrac technology enables storage densities with accurate reading and writing to nano-sized tracks that are only 75 nanometers wide! That's about 1/500th the size of the period at the end of this sentence.

Size and Performance
You get more bang for your buck with the industry's first 1TB-per-disk hard drive technology.
Your drive is up to 45 percent faster than the last generation thanks to Seagate OptiCache technology. OptiCache technology combines the latest advances in hard drive microprocessors, DRAM, and proprietary caching algorithms resulting in great performance improvements for you.

DiscWizard Software
The sure way to get native access to hard drives bigger than 2TB is to adopt the new BIOS standard called UEFI. If you're not there yet, Seagate has an alternative.

Free DiscWizard software from Seagate provides you a means to effectively utilize your 3TB and 4TB Seagate Desktop HDDs, even with Windows XP and using the standard PC BIOS.

Pros
Works Well, Good Price


Cons
It did not come with any of the hardware to install it in the drive enclosure, some reported

Seagate Desktop HDD 500GB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s 16 MB Cache 3.5"- Internal Drive Retail Kit (ST3500641AS-RK)

Price: See Offers At Amazon

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