Testseek.com have collected 105 expert reviews of the Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 SATA300 ST3-AS Series and the average rating is 87%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 SATA300 ST3-AS Series.
December 2008
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The editors liked
1.5TB
Impressive areal density
Fast transfer speeds
Cost effective
Largest single drive capacity to date
Fiveyear warranty
Huge capacity. Good price. Impressive areal density. Fast transfer speeds.
Fast
Cheap
Quiet
Five year warranty (If new)
Low power usage
Massive capacity
Surprisingly good performance
Quiet and cool
Cost-effective
Good reliability numbers.
Large capacity
Low cost per gigabyte
No speed degradation with the extra platter
Five-year warranty
A huge leap in capacity without sacrificing too much speed or dough.
1 Terabyte of storage
32MB cache
Better cost/GB ratio than SCSI
5 year warranty
3.0 gigabits/sec I/O threshold
With the option to decrease to 1.5 gigabits/sec
Generation 2 Perpendicular Recording technology
You’re staring at the fastest terabyte drive on the market.
Excellent Performance
1TB of Capacity
32MB Cache
Fast speeds
Huge storage capacity
Faster than a Raptor HDD
Great performance under low speeds
Very low sonar levels
Great value for a buck
Whooping 5 year warranty
Keeps cool
Ties or outperforms the competition
32 cents per gigabyte cost
Price per gigabyte is equally equitable for both 750 GB and 1 TB drives.
The editors didn't like
Access time and overall performance is a bit slower than the competition
Lots of capacity comes at a higher price
Access time
Overall performance a bit slower than the competitions.
May need firmware update
Performance is a little below the competition.
May not work with all motherboard chipsets
Early drives had a non-destructive write flaw
Random access times slower than the WD Caviar Black and Seagate HD103UJ terabyte drives.
Price may be of concern to some general consumers
The Barracuda’s burst speeds aren’t quite on par with Western Digital’s. That’s a minor detail
But a detail nonetheless.
Default Jumper at 1.5 Gb/s
Expensive
None that we could find.
500 GB version provides best bang for buck value
No feature that really sets the drive above the crowd.
Great performance under low speeds, Very low sonar levels, Great value for a buck, Whooping 5 year warranty, Keeps cool,
None that we could find.
It looks like we have a winner here. Barracuda name has been out for a very long time and has established itself as one of the best on the market. Today it continues to turn heads as it accomplishes great results at low rotational speeds. Going back to...
Now that we’ve come to the end of today’s test session, we should name the fastest 500GB hard disk drive available today. There are actually two winners: the Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 and the Western Digital Caviar Black. The former has somewhat higher...
Abstract: Some three months ago we welcomed early hard disk drives based on 500GB platters but now the situation is completely different. 1.5- and 2-terabyte models from Samsung, Seagate and Western Digital are all available for purchase today, even though all o...
It looks like Seagate inadvertently created something marvelous by creating arguably the best consumer drive on the market. As you have seen from the benchmarks, the Barracuda 7200.11 ST31500341AS outperforms the Velociraptor in almost all categories....
The firmware SD1A certainly doesn’t appear to have harmed the ST31000340AS drives. Performance is robust, and reliability unaffected thus far. Current pricing makes them a very attractive buy, but certainly not the only choice – currently Samsungs 1Tb...
We’d like to start summing everything up by answering the question if the transition to new platters has added more speed? Perhaps unexpectedly, our answer is No. The speeds have got higher somewhat, but not much so. Right now, the performance benef...
We will do some summarizing now. First of all, we can name the fastest 1-terabyte drive in all our tests. It is the WD RE3 (WD1002FBYS). This is the best buy if you prefer maximum performance. But if you don’t like its high price, you can take the W...
We will do some summarizing now. First of all, we can name the fastest 1-terabyte drive in all our tests. It is the WD RE3 (WD1002FBYS). This is the best buy if you prefer maximum performance. But if you don’t like its high price, you can take the W...
