Testseek.com have collected 116 expert reviews of the Seagate Barracuda XT SATA600 ST3-AS Series and the average rating is 79%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Seagate Barracuda XT SATA600 ST3-AS Series.
December 2009
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The editors liked
Build Quality
Great Performance
2TB Of Space
SATA3 (6.0Gb/s)
Price
Performance
3TB Of Space
SATA 6GB
7200RPM
Tons of Space
Relatively Quiet
Well Built
Lots of storage space. Does not require Host Bus Adapter to access full capacity. Speedy.
High Capacity
Good Performance
64MB Cache
7200 RPM
Huge capacity (2TB)
64MB cache
Very fast burst read
Five-year warranty
100MB/splus reads and writes
Props for early adoption of 6GB/s SATA.
The Seagate Barracuda XT hard drive supports SATA 6Gbps and offers fast performance and a capacity of up to 3TB. The drive is quiet and affordable and its 3TB version supports Windows XP well
System Is Snappier
Backward Compatible With Sata 2
Quiet
Standard SATA Interface
Sata 3 Interface
Seagate Quality
Very good 148 MBps read bandwidth with ATTO Benchmark
3nd-generation SATA 6.0 GBps compliant controller
High 2-Terabyte storage capacity
Outstanding total-package value
64MB Cache buffer improves burst transactions
Low-power standby conserves ener...
Very good 162 MB/s read bandwidth with ATTO Benchmark
3ndgeneration SATA 6Gb/s compliant controller
Massive 3Terabyte storage capacity
Outstanding totalpackage value
Lowpower standby conserves energy
5Year Seagate product warranty
Additional performance available via shortstroking
Excellent performance
Balanced read and write
3TB capacity
SATA 6Gb/s
DiscWizard software for disk cloning and backup
5 year warranty
Very fast drive
Large capacity
New SATA 3 interface
The editors didn't like
None
None Really
Although I would love to see a Momentus XT 3TB 3.5 model some day
Expensive. DiscWizard software slightly clunky.
SATA 6G Didn't Help Performance
Much More Expensive than somewhat slower
Similar capacity drives
Expensive
SATA 6Gb/s interface yields negligible performance gains
Activating SATA 6Gb/s interface on current motherboards prevents dual-GPU operation
Performs better on 3Gb/s SATA
Can't match WD Caviar Black
6Gb/s SATA is unnecessary.
The Seagate Barracuda runs rather hot
Not A Major Speed Improvement
Higher Price Than Other 2TB Drives
Unimpressive bandwidth for the World's first SATA 6G product
2.1TB Barrier not removed via native hardware instruction
File CopyingFor this test a single 8.5GB file is copied from an OCZ Vertex 2 SSD system disk to the test disk (write to), from the test disk to the OCZ Vertex 2 SSD (read from), and from the test disk to itself (read and write to self). While this test is...
We will of course have a full review of the bare 4TB Barracuda XT when released, but our initial testing shows a tremendous amount of promise. We saw sequential speeds very close to 190 MB/s read and write, which is faster than many consumer hard driv...
Abstract: When we reviewed our first 3TB hard drive almost a year ago, the market wasn't quite ready for the huge storage capacity being made available. Fully compatible motherboards featuring the unified extensible firmware interface (UEFI) were still months aw...
Abstract: When we reviewed our first 3TB hard drive almost a year ago, the market wasn't quite ready for the huge storage capacity being made available. Fully compatible motherboards featuring the unified extensible firmware interface (UEFI) were still months away,...
Unfortunately there's no such thing as the perfect hard drive and you'll have to choose your drive according to your priorities. If you’re looking for performance, for a model that will also be serving as a primary drive for example, you’ll want to go ...
After recording all the numbers in the graphs it has become quite evident that the performance numbers of SATA 3 7200RPM drives are quite close to each other and so i can't help it but to wonder why all the manufacturing companies out there hav...
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Published: 2011-08-07, Author: The , review by: hardwarebbq.com
Abstract: 3TB Drives with SATA 6Gb/s interfaces coming in hot! This time its a Seagate Barracuda XT 3TB drive.Power of Barracuda XT but with 5 platters. Let's see how this turns out!1. Introduction 2. Packaging, Specs and First Impression 3. Test Setup and and Be...
Abstract: A 2TB hard drive running at 7,200 rpm on a 6Gb/s SATA connection, the Seagate Barracuda XT ($149.99 list) sports a 64MB cache, DiscWizard software for configuration and more. Other features include desktop RAID support, RoHS compliance, thanks to being...
Price, SATA 6GB, 7200RPM, Tons of Space, Relatively Quiet, Well Built,
None Really, Although I would love to see a Momentus XT 3TB 3.5 model some day
Personally I was quite happy with the overall performance that was achieved by the Seagate Barracuda XT. It was fast easy to setup and very robust as far as features go for a lower $200 price point. The 3 platter, 1TB-per, design Segate has achieved i...
The Seagate Barracuda XT 3TB is a nice advance, with more data density and slightly better performance. More evolutionary than revolutionary, the fact that magnetic hard disk drives are still moving forward is the prime takeaway from this product. It ...
