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
Abstract: Compared to its 2TB brethren, the Barracuda XT showed well in our HD Tach tests, with an average read of 115MBps and an average write of 100.5MBps. And due to its 6Mbps interface, it also bested them in burst rate with a speed of 300.4MBps. We also note that when connected to..
It is clear that SATA III has a lot of potential but sadly we won’t being seeing that potential realized with mere 7200 RPM drives. The Seagate barracuda provides a valiant attempt at greatness but sadly is limited by the hardware in order to bypass...
Abstract: Solid-state drives may be all the rage lately, but that hasn’t stopped traditional spinning-platter hard drive manufacturers from innovating. Seagate, for example, recently released its first 2TB desktop hard drive with a SATA 6Gbps interface, the Barracuda XT...
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...
Unimpressive bandwidth for the World's first SATA 6G product
Not every product we test here at Benchmark Reviews receives a warm conclusion, complete with happy ending and high recommendations. Fortunately, the Seagate Barracuda XT has just enough perk still going for it to earn high marks from us. Price, perfor...
Support for 6Gbps Serial ATA may be the Barracuda XT's most intriguing attribute, but the 'cuda has little to offer the standard. By Seagate's own admission, the drive's mechanical platters aren't nearly fast enough to need even a 200M...
System Is Snappier, Backward Compatible With Sata 2, Quiet, 64MB Cache, Standard SATA Interface, Sata 3 Interface, Seagate Quality
Not A Major Speed Improvement, Higher Price Than Other 2TB Drives
We took the long hard road on the Barracuda XT and studied and tested it as many ways as we could think of. Since it's a new interface, on a new drive, it warranted a more through look than say a Sata 2 speed bump drive. We like the Seagate Barracuda...
We were expecting Seagate Barracuda XT 2 TB to smash its main competitor, Western Digital Caviar Black 2 TB, because of the use of the new SATA-600 interface, but this didn’t happen: both achieved the same performance level. In fact, Western Digital...
The Seagate Barracuda XT 2TB HDD is the fastest regular drive, but doesn’t have much performance improvement over the 3 Gb/second ports on the ASUS motherboard due to the regular hard disk not really saturating the SATA 2 bus. The cost of this drive is...
When it comes to performance, the Barracuda XT is hands down the fastest hard disk drive money can currently buy. However, the larger improvements are mainly seen in synthetic benchmarks. In real-world applications, you aren't likely to notice the dif...
