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
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...
Despite some initial concerns regarding write speed and random access time results in our theoretical testing the Seagate 7200.12 1TB has seriously impressed us with its excellent performance throughout our testing. Read speeds are especially good and ...
Despite some initial concerns regarding write speed and random access time results in our theoretical testing the Seagate 7200.12 1TB has seriously impressed us with its excellent performance throughout our testing. Read speeds are especially good and ...
Attractively priced, Energy efficient, Beats out the competition with 40% faster read performance, Not associated with previous generation drives with failure issues
Slowest access time of the tested drives (15ms), The included 3 year warranty is competitive but nothing special
The Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 hard drive turns out to be an efficient drive with a 40% greater read speed than the competing drives. As expected this larger drive did have a slightly slower access time than the competition, however real world transfer...
Low power consumption, Quiet, Performs better in RAID environment, 500GB platters, Great performance in multi-tasking environment, Fast turn around time
Performance is mixed, Burst read performance is slow, Performance is mixed
The Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 is an interesting product. Its performance is a mixed with different benchmarks when we compare to the last generation of the Barracuda family. The hard drive’s burst rate is much slower than the last generation of hard...
Abstract: Just recently, Seagate released several new hard drives giving computer owners more storage space and faster data transfer speeds. The new Momentus for notebook computers is a great example as it brings notebook storage much closer to the capacity and ...
We found it slightly hard to come up with a conclusion on the 7200.12 1TB drive. We were slightly disappointed because we were hoping the flagship model of the 7200.12 series would have improved seek time over the 500GB 410AS model and the previous ge...
The worlds first terabyte hard drive hit the market less than two years ago. Back then, it took five 200GB platters to hit the 1TB mark. Today, Seagates Barracuda 7200.12 gets there with just two 500GB platters. And the latest cuda makes good use of...
For sure, the new Seagate 7200.12 series of HDD is significantly faster than its is predecessor, the 7200.11. Upgrading is just worthy and will boost the performance of your PC. You can easily expect a faster reading by 17MB/sec, while writing writin...
Were happy with the 7200.12 series so far. Performance is great in most areas, besting the 7200.11 series 1.5TB drive and the Velociraptor in some tests. The power consumption and temps are also an improvement over the previous generation of drives,...
