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.
Abstract: This would have been the highest-capacity hard disk weve ever seen if it werent for the last-minute arrival of Western Digitals 2TB Caviar Green. That said, 1.5TB is still a staggering capacity. Best of all, it doesnt come at a price premium: at...
The Barracuda 7200.11 has an enormous capacity, is very fast, has a modest price and operates quietly. It's clear that SSDs will replace hard drives in time, but with drives like the 1.4TB Barracuda around, that still lies some way in the future. ...
With the Barracuda 7200.11 1.0 TB Seagate presents a hard disk with an above average capacity. The throughput is also astonishing: 109 MByte/s when the drive does sequential writing operations. When you consider that in the specifications only 105 MByt...
With the Barracuda 7200.11 640 GB Seagate presents a solid hard disk. The throughput is also astonishing: 107 MByte/s when the drive does sequential writing operations. Altough this number doenst match 115 MByte/s sustained read and write performance b...
Abstract: The introduction of the first 1 TB hard drive was more than a year ago. Hitachi was first to market with its Deskstar 7K1000, followed by Western Digital’s Caviar Green, Seagate’s Barracuda 7200.11 and finally Samsung with the Spinpoint F. Hitachi and ...
