3tb Internal Hard Drive Mac Pro

Barracuda Xt 7200.12 3.5Inch 2000Gb 7200Rpm 64Cch Sata

Size: 2 TB Color: Silver Brand: Seagate Model: ST32000641AS Released on: 2010-09-11 Number of items: 1 Dimensions: 6.00" h x 6.00" w x 12.00" l, 1.54 pounds Hard Disk: 2000GB Massive 2TB drive capacity provides plenty of room for downloading todays space-hungry PC games and movies 7200RPM performance platform complements high capacity, delivering a power combination of extreme storage and top-end desktop performance 64 MB cache optimizes burst performance and reduces data throughput bottlenecks SATA 6gb/s interface enables the use of the industrys newest and fastest hadr drive controllers while providing backward compatibility Ships in Certified Frustration-Free Packaging

The new Barracuda® XT hard drive from Seagate® delivers 2 TB of capacity and 7200-RPM performance supercharged with a 64-MB cache and the new SATA 6Gb/s interface. The Barracuda XT drive takes a no-compromise approach, providing the ultimate combination of capacity and performance. High-performance PC enthusiasts like PC gamers, non-linear video editors, graphic designers and other professionals whose work demands top performance can depend on the new Barracuda XT drive to deliver on the promise of maximum capacity, maximum performance and Barracuda family reliability. Seagate® Barracuda® XT 3.5-Inch Internal Drive What the experts are saying... Xtreme speed and capacity. Uncompromised.

Most helpful customer reviews 37 of 45 people found the following review helpful. Fast, quiet and expensive By Dougie Fresh This is an OEM product so expect that it does not come with some other pieces that are required to install. You will need a SATA data cable and if your power supply doesn't have any, a SATA power cable. The drive comes in a plastic clamshell case that just snaps shut. A concern here was a lack of a anti-static bag and padding for the drive but it seemed to have arrived in fine condition. It was definitely easy to open. No scissors needed and not blood drawn from sharp plastic unlike a more recent experience trying to open a toy for my daughter. Kudos to Amazon on their packaging even if it made me a little nervous. This 2TB Seagate drive uses the latest SATA 6Gb/s technology (also known as SATA III) and is intended for use with the latest SATA 6Gb/s controllers. SATA 6Gb/s technology is a fairly recent thing so right now only the top-end motherboards have this technology and they are rather expensive. New SATA 6Gb/s PCI-e cards are also available and don't seem to have the premium price tag of the latest motherboards. However, thanks to the SATA standards, these aren't necessary to use a SATA 6Gb/s drive. These drives are backwards-compatible with SATA 3Gb/s and SATA 1.5Gb/s depending on the BIOS of the SATA controller. I was not able to test this drive with a SATA 6Gb/s controller because I do not own one but I was able to test it with both SATA 3Gb/s and SATA 1.5Gb/s controllers. In all cases, the drive was very quiet and quick though not noticeably quicker than any other hard drive for the applications I use. Though, again, the testing was limited to SATA 3Gb/s and SATA 1.5Gb/s controllers and was also done using applications that don't necessarily benefit from the extra speed such as watching videos and streaming data. Importantly, it was easy to install and was readily recognized by both Windows 7 and Windows Home Server, the former having a SATA 3Gb/s controller and the latter a SATA 1.5Gb/s controller. In one setup which I will detail in a bit the drive ran a bit too warm for my liking compared to the other drive in the system. At all times the drive was whisper quiet, no clicking of drive heads audible even during a long copy process. The first PC I tried this drive in was my home theater PC. This PC is housed in a case about the size of an audio-video receiver and sits inside my entertainment center. To install, I just needed a SATA data cable because my power supply had plenty of SATA power plugs left open and the screws that had come with the computer case. As with all SATA drives, it installed easily, Windows 7 recognized it right away and I was able to create a partition and quick format the drive via the Disk Manager interface. The drive had indeed arrived safe and sound despite the minimal packaging. SATA is such a godsend after the old days of setting jumpers, setting drive types in the BIOS, etc. The drive formatted to 1.8TB. No drive ever formats to the advertised capacity so this was no surprise. The OS needs room for the file allocation tables. I used 64K allocation blocks since I was testing this drive out with large video files. I then copied 600GB of video data to the drive which took a few hours over a gigabit network. There were no glitches in the copying and the data written to the drive played just fine in Windows Media Center as expected. I then shutdown the machine and opened up the PC to see how warm the drive was getting. It was definitely warmer to the touch than I would have liked. I am not sure if that's the drive itself or the confined space of the home theater PC. I did notice that the system drive however was not as warm. I think if I were to use this drive in a home theater PC or any confined space I would have concerns about the heat and be sure to have some additional cooling around the hard drive cages. There is currently one 92mm fan pushing air over the