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Seagate ST3500320AS 500GB Hard Drive SATA II 7200rpm *32MB Cache* - OEM
- £37.86ex vat
- £43.54inc vat
(price includes 2.5% VAT discount)
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- manufacturer #: ST3500320AS
- quickfind code: 130826
- 607 in stock for next day delivery.
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The 32MB cache isn't why it is fast, it's the extremely high data density and perpendicular storage that makes it fast.
Cache only helps for random reads, not sustained transfers, so is mostly unused except in servers or horribly fragmented desktops.
In Vista it will get a 5.9, as this really is one of the fastest drives for consumer use.
Silent, cool and fast
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Max OSXThis is an impressive drive at an impressive price point.
I replaced a 250GB Western Digital (16MB cache) drive in a PowerMac G5 with one of these and the difference is amazing. The speed increase due to the larger cache is massive, and the drive is ultra-silent. In addition to that the drive is also cooler, meaning that the system fans run at a slower speed and hence quieter as well.
For me, this is the best SATA II drive on the market today.
Niiiice....
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Windows XPThis is a fantastic hard drive, I had some trouble installing XP, but that was a BIOS setting which needed to be changed..how odd. I installed Visat first just to see if the 5.9 was true, and yeah it is, so thats all good. Something I have never seen anyone say is about the jumper on the hard drive, most hard drives come with a jumper which limits the data tranfer to Sata 1 (1.5Gb/s), so if you do want this to run as Sata 2 (3Gb/s) then make sure you remove the jumper first. But yeah this is a fantastic hard drive, so if you are looking for a new one, get this because it is second to none, top of the range
Lee
System:
Power: Hiper Type R - true 530W
Motherboard: Asus M2N-E nForce 570
Processor: AMD 3400 Black Ed, 3.2ghz with Cooler Master Vortex cooling
Memory: OCZ 3gb 6400 - 4.4.4.12
Graphics: XFX 8800GT XXX Alpha Dog Ed 512mb (OC: 720mhz and 2000mhz)
Sound: Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi Xtreme Gamer
Storage: Seagate 500GB SataII with 32mb Cache and Antec HDD Cooler
Optical: 2x - LG 20X DVD-RW SA-H55N
Just as good as I expected
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Windows XPWith AHCI enabled it gives 105MB/s Bursts with 87MB/s Sustained...
Bloody fast!
It has a higher sustained transfer than any Raptor drive, it's only slightly slower with seek speed.
Seagate 500gb
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Windows VistaHave bought Seagates for most of my builds, I thought I would give the extra cache a go and I am impressed the i/o speed is fantastic. This drive is silent! Currently have 2 of these in a RAID 1+0, its OEM so no fancy box
Great
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Windows VistaThis is a great hard drive very quick ive ordered another one
my pc spec
4800x2 AMD AMTHLON
2X seagate 500GB
1X seagate 320GB
8700 GTX
Tagan 480 watt power supply
XSM 2 GB RAM
Excellent - fast and quiet
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Windows VistaThis is fast, the drive acheived 70mb/s according to sandra in the same PC as a 10K U320 scsi drive on a PCI-X 133Mhz Adaptec Raid adapter which only manages 63Mb/s, not overly noisy either, but do hear some clicking if it is mounted rigidly in a case. I have used mine for TV recording under Vista Ultimate and it does this very well.
Hush!!!
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Windows XPI have 4 of these a foot from my ear all Striped up. They are so quiet it is unbelievable. Impressed!
Very fast
This drive is extremely fast, with the 32mb cash,
runs cool 32C and silently.
Well worth the money and a quality item also fast shipping from Ebuyer once again.
You just can't beat this site for quality and service
The fastest hard drive iv evar had
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Windows XPthis hard drive is got for the price and it is really fast and good make do buy
