Seagate Momentus 7200 750 GB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s 16 MB Cache 2.5 Inch Internal Notebook Hard Drive -Bare Drive ST9750420AS

Purchased this drive after quite a bit of study. The fact that it was an open box item and used at that didn't deter me in that, according to the ad, it had been removed from new test laptops. I was deployed to Kuwait at the time of purchase and was surprised that the delivery was sooner than expected and was happy for that. The installation into my Macbook Pro 15" mid 2011 laptop was easy enough so I was up and running in no time.Noise: None really. The other reviewers noticed loud humming, but I didn't hear or feel anything.Seek speeds: I updated my ram at the same time from 4 to 8 gig so I am not sure which made the biggest impact, but the speed difference from startup through my graphic intense movie making, keynotes and pages applications, as well as accessing iPhoto, itunes, parallels 7 running the Army Golden master Win Vista and searching the web, to managing sometimes 4 or 5 desktops and 6 or seven applications at the same time, to rebooting completely into windows 7 via Bootcamp and playing intense PC games like black ops and FEAR 3 to shutdown showed a dramatic improvement in performance overall.Battery Usage: I initially noticed a small hit on my, upwards of five hours of, battery life under normal use. I flew to and from Germany on leave with a full charge and managed to watch two movies (one hard drive mounted and one USB media) and worked for hours on my project books that I am writing using either microsoft word or pages and had enough power left to reboot into win 7 and play about 40 minutes of medal of honor, so no complaints there.It was a month or so later when I noticed that the hard drive didn't always go to sleep. No matter the power settings it would spin through the night and, if not completely shut down and not plugged in, would kill my battery by morning. It may have been a power management issue from some mac fluke, but I now have a 1 TB drive and the 750 Seagate in the same macbook pro. The Toshiba 1 TB that I installed over Christmas by removing the optical drive that has its own operating system will sleep and my battery will last and last. But if I boot up on the Seagate and walk away, the drive will be spinning when I return. If I'm not plugged in, it will kill the battery.Next Step: I am migrating everything from the seagate to the toshiba (5400 rpm by the way) once I do that the Seagate will be reformatted as a storage drive only. More than likely when that happens the problem will go away. If so I will update this report.Hope this information helps.

This hard drive runs like a stripped-ass-ape. I love this HD.First: I am not a gamer so those game player issues do not apply to me. Find a gamer review. And do not drop your computer... I want speed, size, and simplicity. I wanted to install my own, first hard drive failure I have gone through.I think I paid $70.00 for this, Amazon.com , and the trick was this: went into my Boot Manager ( F12 if my memory serves me ) and then 'advanced ' , to hard drive and I had two choices. So I picked " the other one" . Turns out it was that easy and I had nothing to lose by that time. Check you computer guides and look to their user forums. A real gold mine of info. Open the boot manager , look around, do nothing. Go out. Go in.First do no harm. It is a learning experience, it will take a little time, and you can save some real money.You can install your own. Mine has two screws. i took out the old one. Put it back in so as to feel for the ' click' of it. Then put in the new. I did keep the old one, even though I do not have 7 million bucks in bitcoin on it.This took some amount of research and blind stumbling in my run-up to the success, but I figure I can pay myself a couple hundred bucks by doing it myself. If I can do this you likely can too. You will fel so good when it works. Go for it !

I ended up buying 2 of these Seagate 750GB 7200rpm drives to replace the Western Digital 1TB 5200rpm Secondary Drive I had originally upgraded my Dell Studio 1747 XPS Laptop ( Western Digital 1 TB Scorpio Blue SATA 3 Gb/s 5200 RPM 8 MB Cache Bulk/OEM Notebook Hard Drive - WD10TPVT ) due to the Later drives 12.5mm thickness, even through the 1tb drive worked flawlessly. So I decided to get the two Seagate 750GB 7200rpm drives (Which installed flawlessy since it was the laptop designed 9.5mm thickness) to compensate for taking out the 1tb drive (I could have gotten the Western Digital 750GB equivilent but the RPM speeds were only 5400rpm to the Seagates 7200rpm). Both drives fit perfectly into the laptop comparments and was recognized instantly by the Laptops BIOS.Other than that all I can say is both drives are working great (Along with it fitting in the laptop compartment great) and are a good way to expand the storage on your laptop (At least until the Hard Drives Manufactures can figure out how to make the 1tb and above hard drives that will have the 9.5mm thickness to fit in all Window based Laptops).I would recommend these hard drives for all Laptop upgrade needs who wish to increase thier storage with virtually no Headaches.Computer Specs:Dell Studio 1747 XPS (June 2010 Model)Windows 7 Ultimate SP1(64 Bit)Intel I7 Core 1.6ghz processor8GB DDR3 10666mhz Ram1gb NVidia 880 Video Card750gb (Previously a 120gb)\750gb (Previously a 1tb, removed due to drive thickness issues) Sata Hard DrivesBD-ROM/DVD-CD Burner1920 X 1080 17inch Screen1GB Broadcom Intergrated NICIntel WiFi Wireless CardCreative Sound Blaster CardASUS VH242H 23.6-Inch 1080p Widescreen LCD Monitor (External)

I ordered what appeard to be a "too good to be true" offer. It turned out that it was. The item was sold as a brand new Seagate Momentus 750gb 7200rpm SATA hard drive. It was the right item but it had a sticker on it that showed that the drive was remanufactured by someone other than Seagate. The drive had what appeared to be a ding in the aluminum chasis which perhaps meant that it had met with an accident sometime in the past. I should mention that several companies are selling this remanufactured drive as "new" here on amazon and the actual seller changes daily so be careful.I went against my better instinct and installed it. The drive installed windows 7 just fine.. however it heated up to absolute boiling temps and my system fan was on full blast just trying to keep things cool. I shut down and rebooted and this time the drive had a huge amount of damaged data which windows 7 fixed over a good 25 minutes. I shut it down and removed the drive and placed it into a usb case and connected it to my main system. again, dozens of data errors.. I deleted the partition and removed the drive.The good news is that the seller gave me a full refund and even paid for the return shipping without any sort of a hassle. Perhaps this was just a one-off bad one that had slipped through? But it does concern me that every couple of days a different company is listed as the seller of this 750gb drive. It goes from £39.99 with some shipping to £50+ with free shipping.From now on I stick to electronic items that are sold and shipped from Amazon themselves. I would highly recommend my seller though and they had excellent feedback and were gracious in their e-mail response.

I purchased this drive to upgrade a MacBook Pro 13" (Mid-2010) after two WD Scorpio Blue 640GB drives failed. The performance beats both the stock Apple/Hitachi and the WD hands down. The read/write speeds and extremely fast and the drive produces no noticeable heat or noise.As with previous reviews, I have run the XBench benchmark on the drive:Results 81.03 System Info Xbench Version 1.3 System Version 10.8.2 (12C60) Physical RAM 8192 MB Model MacBookPro7,1 Drive Type ST9750420AS Disk Test 50.26 Sequential 128.18 Uncached Write 180.07 110.56 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 133.07 75.29 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 75.82 22.19 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 202.07 101.56 MB/sec [256K blocks] Random 31.26 Uncached Write 10.02 1.06 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 134.65 43.11 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 74.22 0.53 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 137.80 25.57 MB/sec [256K blocks]This shows faster read/writes than the previous reviewer's test, but this may be down to differences in operating systems.I am more than happy with the drive and would recommend it for upgrades or fitting in external chassis.

I had a 320gb version of this drive which was full so I checked this was the same spec but with more capacity. Worked a treat. Connected initally via USB and copied all files, then installed inside the laptop, changed the drive letter and no problems at all.Worth doing a full format though as this will check for disk errors before final installtion. Takes around 4-5 hours via usb2 port.Excellent drive but price seems to have nearly doubled since I bought mine??

I purchased this Seagate hard disk drive to replace the unit on my Win 7 laptop as the existing drive was showing signs of imminent failure.It took almost two weeks for the disk to arrive as PSL apparently messed up the first attempt and Royal Mail returned the package to them saying that it had incomplete address information. PSL did not own up to this initially and I only found out when querying the differing despatch date claims between my email from Amazon and a PSL email.Having a laptop, I wanted to transfer everything onto the new hard disk using a clone disk method in order to keep it simple.To facilitate this I purchased a USB to SATA adapter complete with power supply from Amazon. This arrived in the expected timeframe. I also downloaded the Seagate DiscWizard program that I intended to use for the "Clone Disk" feature.Once I eventually had all the necessary items, I connected everything up and I could "see" the new Seagate hard drive from my PC. I ran the DiscWizard program and although it showed the new hard drive as a target for the clone operation, the name of the new drive was greyed out. So it could see the new disk but would not let me select it. After repeated attempts I gave up and emailed details of the problem to both Seagate and PSL.The response from Seagate was a one liner "I suggest you to connect the drive internally then try the procedure again." This was not of any help. It did seem to me that there is a problem with the Seagate DiscWizard software and they have just ignored that fact.After 5 days I have had no response from PSL.I will let you draw your own conclusions from the above. My advice would be to avoid Seagate devices and PSL as a supplier.

The article reached my home quite quickly, but it wasn't too well packaged.Luckily, it didn't suffered from the transport.I installed and everything went ok.HD Sentinel says the hard disk is in excellent conditions though, I don't trust SMART very much anymore, after I lost 2 hard disk that SMART said were in good conditions... so I can only hope this is ok.