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: Hard drives able to hold 3 TB of data need to be considered carefully because they might not always work as expected. This round-up of four high-capacity disks compares products from Hitachi, Seagate, and Western Digital, then covers their caveats. The...
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 i...
Write performances a little disappointing, Gets a bit hotter than the average drive
Although its write speeds aren't quite as good as the WD Caviar Black, the Barracuda XT is still a very good hard drive. It will, however, need to come down in price before it makes a serious and attractive alternative to the WD....
Abstract: For support Seagate offer a 5-Year warranty and consumers can contact them through email and live chat. A customer forum is also available. Finally we have the value aspect, currently the Barracuda XT is priced at a slightly lower level than other 2TB drives and..
Offering good performance despite disappointing SATA 6Gb/s results, the Seagate Barracuda XT 2TB is only let down by its high price, which in some cases is twice what the competition demand for similar capacity hard drives....
Abstract: If you remove the SATA 3.0 interface from the equation you'll find the Barracuda XT doesn't bring a great deal to the 2TB party. Unfortunately it has the same performance as a regular SATA 2.0 hard drive yet it looks rather expensive, as you pay a hef...
Seagate’s Barracuda XT may be the first hard drive to use the new 6Gb/s Sata 3.0 interface, but the new technology doesn’t deliver any obvious benefit. Two terabytes of storage is welcome, but Seagate is charging a very high price. There are c...
Abstract: The XT's 6.6W idle power isn’t revolutionary, but it's still good. The other 2TB drives are very close to this power consumption number. Seagate is much more power efficient at maximum streaming reads, where it doesn'tt exceed 8.5W. Other 2TB drives, including the previously-mentioned WD models, require more than 10W at peak..
