Testseek.com have collected 51 expert reviews of the Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 SATA300 ST3-AS Series and the average rating is 88%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 SATA300 ST3-AS Series.
April 2009
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The editors liked
Attractively priced
Energy efficient
Beats out the competition with 40% faster read performance
Not associated with previous generation drives with failure issues
Low power consumption
Quiet
Performs better in RAID environment
500GB platters
Great performance in multi-tasking environment
Fast turn around time
First twoplatter 1TB drive
Wickedfast. Beats previous contender easily.
Fast drive
Large capacity
Relatively low price for the capacity
Slim form factor
Relatively fast
Runs cool
Good performance
Quiet operation
Three year warranty
Cheap price
The editors didn't like
Slowest access time of the tested drives (15ms)
The included 3 year warranty is competitive but nothing special
Abstract: Last year we tested 500GB hard disk drives which can be an optimal choice for users who don’t need a lot of disk storage. Today, we want to take a look at products which are twice as large. They are generally as fast as their higher-capacity counterpar...
Good performance, Quiet operation, Three year warranty, Cheap price
Higher access times than some previous models, Slower than a SSD (But larger and much cheaper)
The Seagate Barracuda ST31000524AS 1TB beats the Seagate Barracuda ST3750330AS 750GB in nearly all of our testing, (posting a slightly higher access time being the only exception). The Seagate ST31000524AS is a 7200.12 model so should be free of the fi...
Quiet, Slim form factor, Relatively fast, Runs cool
None really
The Seagate Slim drive is small and quiet, and it doesn’t seem to get as warm as the regular sized 7200.12 drive does so this type of drive would be great for an HTPC where size and noise are an issue. Performance is decent overall; it’s almost ...
Fast drive, Large capacity, Relatively low price for the capacity
Can get fairly warm
It always seems we need more space and faster drives to keep up with everything out there. High definition is in; standard definition is pretty much out. HD means larger files, a lot larger files actually so we need bigger drives to store those file...
Abstract: After publishing our report on 2 TB drives, we’re throwing ourselves back into the breach with a selection of 1 TB drives! More common, these drives have...
Abstract: Solid-state disks are easily one of the most exciting new technologies to grace the PC in recent years. The first examples didn't have the capacity or performance to measure up to their exorbitant price tags, but great strides have been made with subse...
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...
The 1.5TB Western Digital Caviar Green is one of the most impressive drives to pass through our labs in a long time. Not only is one of the quietest hard drives we've tested, amongst 3.5
As it stands right now, the speed differences between desktop drives are pretty much a wash using current technologies. We're anxious to see the newer SATA 6GB parts, but the differences between the fastest and slowest drives in our tests today is abo...
