Seagate ST3200822A-RK 200 GB ATA Internal Hard Drive

Average customer rating: 4.0

DO NOT BUY ANY SEAGATE DRIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great Drive
Drive died after 3 months
OK
Quick, quiet, and guaranteed!

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Seagate ST3200822A-RK 200 GB ATA Internal Hard Drive

Manufacturer: SEAGATE
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B0001407XU

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Product Description

Superior performance and high capacity make the Barracuda ATA products a perfect solution for users looking for speedy ATA disc drives that can boost the performance of their PCs and even perform jobs traditionally handled by SCSI technology. The drives offer an unprecedented combination of price and performance for applications supported by ATA RAID systems.Corporate workhorse PCs, high-performance PCs, and high-performance consumer gaming and video-editing systems all benefit from the quiet, performance-oriented specifications of Seagate's Barracuda ATA family.Barracuda ATA drives continue to garner industry press accolades and rave reviews worldwide for their superior performance, ruggedness and value.All Barracuda ATA drives include Seagate's comprehensive 3D Defense System for the best data protection in the industry, and sound barrier technology for the quietest performance available.

Customer Reviews:

DO NOT BUY ANY SEAGATE DRIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!.......2006-12-03

At the end of August, my girlfriend and I bought a seagate internal hard drive to back up our documents, school work, and pictures. This drive utterly stopped working after only 3 months of very light usage. Not only was the file system of the hard drive corrupted, but it had physically jammed its reader heads into the disk, deleting and corrupting data willy-nilly.

If you are looking for a reliable, long-lasting hard drive, look elsewhere then seagate. They offer a five year warranty on their drives for a reason...they, and you, can pretty much count on it to fail in that timeframe

Recap: Don't buy this drive!

Great Drive.......2006-07-14

I am extremely happy with this purchase and will most likely purchase another one of these, soon.

Drive died after 3 months.......2006-06-25

I bought this item in March (not from Amazon), with the 5 year warranty. Worked fine, until it began making a clicking noise, described elsewhere as turning the drive on and off. When the drive was making that noise, it would no longer be detected by windows. If the drive was making the noise at startup, my system would hang, so I would have to unplug the drive (it's a secondary). I could reboot a couple of times and have a quiet drive that was recognized, but it would go south again. I even installed a fan blowing directly on the drives, thinking it might have been a heat issue. No change.

Contacted Seagate's tech support, and was told that the drive was under warranty (thankfully), but they had none in stock, and I would have to wait 7-10 days to see if they would recieve any more. Although they did waive the fee for the "advanced" shipping option for me.

So I have a dead 3 month old drive with no prospect of a replacement for the immediate future. I think most businesses, if you had a problem with a product under warranty that they did not have available, would try to make it right somehow, usually with the next step up, or an equivalent item. Not that I'm demanding a different/larger/faster drive, but I am perturbed that my only option is to wait for them to have some available.

A drive like this in a retail box should not fail after 3 months, and a customer should not have to wait for the manufacturer to "get some in". Very curious, this... I have another Seagate 160GB drive in my system right now as a non-boot drive. I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop. Back to WD for me...

OK.......2006-06-07

Positive:
* Installation is easy - it comes with all the instructions
* It's cheap

Neither Positive nor Negative:
* It's not as quiet as my old HD, but I don't really care about that
* My Win XP shows only 186 GB capacity for the drive, not 200, but this may be normal, I don't know.

Quick, quiet, and guaranteed!.......2006-06-07

Whatever variable you're considering, Seagate is the way to go - and, at the time of this review, this drive is a great balance of size and cost.

Above all, Seagate's five-year warranty bests everyone. Hitachi offers 5-year warranty on SOME drives, but even then the warranty doesn't cover all aspects OF the drives. Seagate's warranty is complete and certain. Then again, you may never NEED the warranty, since Seagate drives so rarely fail. And five years is a long time in computer life, anyway - if you get that far out and have any trouble, it's probably time for a new drive and/or computer anyway. 200GB will seem teeny by then, and you might not want to waste the effort on service - if you ever needed it.

Second, setup was insanely easy. I delayed adding a second hard drive to my desktop for several years, fearing difficulties with the process. Oh, I've added lots of things to lots of computers - additional memory, new CDR and DVD drives, upgraded processes, new fans, replacement batteries (in laptops), modems and SCSI cards and USB/Fireware cards. But the consensus on hard drives seemed to be that trouble was ahead, and to beware. But not here, baby. I took the process very slowly, pausing plenty between each step largely out of fear and carefulness. But if I had simply followed the steps without pausing and fretting, we're talking MAYBE five minutes: Turn the machine off, open the case, remove the second drive housing, pop in the drive, replace the drive housing, connect two cables, close the case, and turn it on - bingo! The included software was a breeze, and would have been even for a newbie. I don't know what I was worried about, but suggest that you NOT worry and just move forward. You'll appreciate the extra space.

I haven't had ANY of the problems cited by others (and note that very few folks cite any problems anyway). No clicking, no noticeable noise, no slowdown, nada. Easy easy ease, all the way.

I'm using the drive primarily for music storage, ripping our entire CD collection (80GB so far) for access via iTunes. I had been worried that iTunes getting tunes from a second drive would be slow, especially since this desktop is about five years old. But nope, no problems at all.

I can't imagine this having gone smoother. If I had space in the desktop for a third drive, I might get another - and I might well replace the OED 40GB drive with one of these, giving me 400GB in the case. It's either that or a 400GB external NAS (Network Access Storage drive, connected to our LAN but not this PC in particular), on which I'll backup all of our machines. Either way, as far as this product goes, aces all the way. Yahoo! :)

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