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
Most people wouldn’t expect to be comparing the Seagate Barracuda XT to the Western Digital Velociraptor, but Seagate has managed to take a 7200RPM drive and put it in the performance levels of a 10,000 RPM drive. As such, we would actually have to rec...
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
The Seagate Barracuda runs rather hot
Storage-hungry users, especially tech-savvy ones, will find the Seagate Barracuda XT a great balance of storage space, backward compatibility, and speedy performance.
Excellent performance, Balanced read and write, 3TB capacity, SATA 6Gb/s, DiscWizard software for disk cloning and backup, 5 year warranty
DiscWizard will not work with RAID
The Seagate Barracuda XT 3TB is the fastest mechanical drive that we have tested. The drive has excellent sequential read and write up to 150MB/s. While SSDs may grab the market headlines, they are still relatively expensive at $1.5 per gigabyte and w...
Lots of storage space. Does not require Host Bus Adapter to access full capacity. Speedy.
Expensive. DiscWizard software slightly clunky.
With Seagate's new Barracuda XT hard drive, you won't need to install additional hardware to access all 3TB of its storage space, but you will need special software—and the willingness to pay more. Buy it now...
Very good 162 MB/s read bandwidth with ATTO Benchmark, 3ndgeneration SATA 6Gb/s compliant controller, Massive 3Terabyte storage capacity, Outstanding totalpackage value, 64MB Cache buffer improves burst transactions, Lowpower standby conserves energy, 5Year Seagate product warranty, Additional performance available via shortstroking,
2.1TB Barrier not removed via native hardware instruction
IMPORTANT: Although the rating and final score mentioned in this conclusion are made to be as objective as possible, please be advised that every author perceives these factors differently at various points in time. While we each do our best to ensure...
Seagate came a little tardy into the bare drive consumer 3TB market, but with that extra time they were able to offer a solution that lets buyers make use of the drive's full potential without add-on hardware. By waiting for Intel driver support and o...
Abstract: The free space on our computers’ hard disks is getting consumed at a tremendous rate in our never-ending search for higher quality. HD video, 15-megapixel photographs, lossless audio, high-resolution textures of latest games are the reasons why we don’...
Abstract: Of course the main advantage of a 7200 RPM drive is speed, and the XT definitely has that. It performed very well in our test suite, beaten only by a SSD in application and file copy performance, and coming in third behind a SSD and Seagate's hybrid Momentus XT in boot and loading times. However, it wasn't that much faster than a 1TB Barracuda 7200.11...
Build Quality, Great Performance, 2TB Of Space, SATA3 (6.0Gb/s), Price
None
From the very first moment i heard about SATA3 i knew it would bring nothing extraordinary on the table, at least not at first. Even SATA2 controllers took quite some time to mature and perform as they do today so i expect the same to be the...
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