Hey what's up Hellsgamers! (:
Since awesome Enigma went nuts buying too much cool stuff last month, we'll be giving away this cool Seagate
3TB Barracuda 7200rpm SATA III w/ 64MB Cache during the month of august. YAY Hellsgamers! 
Why is this Hard Drive so cool? All info behind this massive Ninja tag:
Barracuda® Drives Give You What You Want.
Count on Barracuda® drives to deliver the storage innovations that drive your costs down and your performance up.
• 1TB-per-disk 7200 RPM platform provides affordable capacity up to 3TB
• Seagate OptiCache™ technology improves performance by up to 45%
• Seagate AcuTrac™ technology enables reliable read/write performance even in high touch operating environments
• Seagate SmartAlign™ technology for no-hassle transition to Advanced Format 4K sector technology
• Free DiscWizard™ software enables 3TB drive use on legacy PC BIOS as well as Windows XP-based systems
• SATA 6Gb/s maximizes data transfer rates
Maximizes Hard Drive Storage Densities.
Seagate AcuTracâ„¢ technology enables new storage densities with accurate reading and writing to nano-sized tracks that are only 75 nanometers wide! That's about 500 times smaller than the period at the end of this sentence.
Green Where It Counts.
Barracuda desktop drives are produced using the most sophisticated manufacturing process in the industry, with a focus on environmental stewardship.
• Barracuda® drives comply with the RoHS directive on hazardous materials and voluntarily restrict halogen compounds
• 70% or more of the materials used to build Barracuda drives are recyclable
• Low power consumption
Your No-Hassle Transition To 4K Sectors.
Seagate SmartAlignâ„¢ technology makes this transition a snap:
• No utilities to run
• No extra integration steps to take up your time
Go Beyond 2TB With DiscWizardâ„¢ Software.
If you're not there yet, Seagate has an alternative: Free DiscWizard™ software from Seagate provides you a means to effectively utilize your 3TB Barracuda® drive, even with Windows® XP and even using using the standard PC BIOS.
This 3TB Barracuda® Hard Drive Also Provides These Key Features:
• High instantaneous (burst) data-transfer rates (up to 600MB per second)
• TGMR recording technology provides the drives with increased areal density
• State-of-the-art cache and on-the-fly error-correction algorithms
• Native Command Queueing with command ordering to increase performance in demanding applications
• Full-track multiple-sector transfer capability without local processor intervention
• Quiet operation
• Compliant with RoHS requirements in China and Europe
• SeaTools diagnostic software performs a drive self-test that eliminates unnecessary drive returns
• Support for S.M.A.R.T. drive monitoring and reporting
• Supports latching SATA cables and connectors
• Worldwide Name (WWN) capability uniquely identifies the drive
Barracuda® Drives Are The Perfect Solution When You Need To:
• Build desktop or all-in-one PCs
• Create PC-based gaming systems
• Implement a desktop RAID
• Outfit direct attached external storage devices (DAS)
• Build network attached storage devices (NAS)
Info found on: http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX36849
Specifications Geek fest :3
Model Number
Interface
Capacity
Sector Size
Areal Density
Guaranteed Sectors
Performance
Cache
Spindle Speed
Average Latency
Average Seek Times
Write:
Maximum Internal Transfer Rate
Average External Transfer Rate
Maximum External Transfer Rate
Drive Configuration
Heads
Disks
Voltage Tolerance
Reliability / Data Integrity
Load / unload cycle
Nonrecoverable Read Errors
Annual Failure Rate
Environmentals
Temperature
Humidity
Shock
Non-Operating:
Acoustics
Dimensions and Weight
Dimensions (LxWxH)
Weight
What you need know about this giveaway!
Who can enter?
Anyone in hellsgamers. That means -hg-, [HG] and HG | (of course, being a dA, dM, dL, DC, TC or C does not exclude you from this giveaway!)
How to win?
Since this prize is really cool, I'd love to see you guys put your try hard pants on, making something, anything, that has to do with Hellsgamers, such as:
An image/picture/...
A sound clip/ song/...
A video/...
A poem/story/...
Don't make your written stuff more than one page (hey I'll have to read all that so be nice (: )
Don't make your video/sound stuff longer than 3 minutes.
Images, go all out. But don't make it like a 200 picture album :3
post the entries in this thread or pm them to me, but if you send them to me please post in this thread anyways, just in case (:.
Make it something new. some of you might have already put songs on youtube months ago, or used them for other hg giveaways or whatnot, but please, just make something new!
I will be checking out every entry and deciding which one is the best. I might ask help from someone else in leadership if I think that is needed.
When?
I'll be nice and give you guys 18 days for the entries to be sent to me/posted in this thread.
Since I'm busy with school, you guys should give me a week to review whatever entries I received, and make a decision on who did best (:
This means that all entries need to be in by august 19th, 6PM EST. A winner will be announced on august 26th at the latest.
Good luck to everyone! :3 <3
Winner: HG | Lazarus
https://hellsgamers.com/threads/75397-WINNER-August-giveaway-3TB-Harddrive
If you'd want your entry changed to something else (or better, for those who trolled :3), you can, but please pm me then, so that I don't accidentally overlook it.
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