Seagate Momentus 7200.4 500 GB 7200RPM SATA 16 MB Cache 2.5-Inch Bare Drive - ST9500420ASG Reviews
| 7 of 7 people found the following review helpful  Big, fast, quiet. Awesome!, By Amazon Verified Purchase This review is from: Seagate Momentus 7200.4 500 GB 7200RPM SATA 16 MB Cache 2.5-Inch Bare Drive - ST9500420ASG (Personal Computers) I purchased this drive to replace the Seagate 7200.3 320GB HD on my MacBook Pro. This drive is just as fast, if not faster. Installation was a snap and it is running like a champ. The drive is very quiet. Highly recommend this drive as an upgrade. With all of the extra room, I installed Ubuntu 9.10. No issues running this drive in a dual-boot, multi-partition configuration. If you want the biggest and fastest (SSD's excluded) hard drive on the market, this is the drive to get. 6 of 6 people found the following review helpful  WARNING WARNING WARNING!!! DEFECTIVE FIRMWARE and WARRANTY ISSUES, By Matthew Elvey "tech whiz" (SF, CA, USA) - See all my reviews This review is from: Seagate Momentus 7200.4 500 GB 7200RPM SATA 16 MB Cache 2.5-Inch Bare Drive - ST9500420ASG (Personal Computers) THE ST9500420ASG HAS DEFECTIVE FIRMWARE.This is well documented online if you search for this model number and clicking noise, e.g. on Seagate's own forums. In some cases, you can update the firmware to ameliorate the problem. I note a few folks mention constant clicking. That's not something to be ignored. If you've got that clicking, your hard drive's _DETAILED_ SMART stats will probably show that the drive is in very bad shape. Check the Load_Cycle_Count; on my drives, this is approaching half a million cycles. Also, there is NO WARRANTY if you get the OEM version. Seagate refuses to honor the warranty on these drives, even though their web site says their OEM drives have a 3 year warranty. (Sorry, Amazon doesn't allow URLs in reviews, so I can't post links.) 16 of 20 people found the following review helpful I've had two in a row fail..., By This review is from: Seagate Momentus 7200.4 500 GB 7200RPM SATA 16 MB Cache 2.5-Inch Bare Drive - ST9500420ASG (Personal Computers) I am not going to say there is something wrong with these drives, because at the end of the day I'm only one guy with a bad experience. I'll just offer my review here so that people get a full perspective. I have had two of these fail on me in a row (actually, the non G-sensing version, but they are otherwise exactly the same drive). Both failed offline SMART tests, so they have truly gone bad. When they were working, the drives were very fast and quiet, though, so I can certainly understand the high marks people give these drives when they first get them. However, after a month or so, the drives would start to have problems.I think it is fair to say that Seagate is really running these at the ragged edge of what is possible. While the transfer rates can approach 90 Mb/s at the edge of the platter--according to a few quick tests I ran--the transfer rate fluctuates greatly, and the SMART data shows a pretty constant stream of software-corrected (ECC) errors. In other words,... Read more |
› See all 30 customer reviews...
Product Description
Momentus 7200.4 2.5Inch 500Gb 7200Rpm 16Cch Sata
- Ships in Certified Frustration-Free Packaging
- Two Year Warranty
 |
Customer Rating :  List Price : $159.99 Price : $155.00  |
0 ความคิดเห็น:
แสดงความคิดเห็น