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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.
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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.

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  Published: 2010-09-17, review by: umlan.com

  • 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...

 
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  Published: 2010-05-03, review by: xbitlabs.com

  • 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...

 
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  Published: 2010-01-25, review by: pcworld.com_techhive.com

  • Largest single drive capacity to date, Fiveyear warranty,
  • Lots of capacity comes at a higher price
  • Great performance plus gargantuan capacity makes this a great drive for storing large media collections. ...

 
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  Published: 2009-08-15, review by: xbitlabs.com

  • 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...

 
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  Published: 2009-07-14, review by: techwarelabs.com

  • 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....

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  Published: 2009-05-22, review by: rage3d.com

  • 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...

 
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  Published: 2009-05-06, review by: xbitlabs.com

  • 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...

 
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  Published: 2009-03-16, review by: xbitlabs.com

  • 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...

 
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  Published: 2009-03-16, review by: xbitlabs.com

  • 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...

 
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  Published: 2009-02-03, review by: maximumpc.com

  • A huge leap in capacity without sacrificing too much speed or dough.
  • Random access times slower than the WD Caviar Black and Seagate HD103UJ terabyte drives.

 
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