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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51 Reviews
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Abstract: Solid-state disks are easily one of the most exciting new technologies to grace the PC in recent years. The first examples didn't have the capacity or performance to measure up to their exorbitant price tags, but great strides have been made with subse...
Now that we’ve come to the end of today’s test session, we should name the fastest 500GB hard disk drive available today. There are actually two winners: the Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 and the Western Digital Caviar Black. The former has somewhat higher...
The 1.5TB Western Digital Caviar Green is one of the most impressive drives to pass through our labs in a long time. Not only is one of the quietest hard drives we've tested, amongst 3.5
As it stands right now, the speed differences between desktop drives are pretty much a wash using current technologies. We're anxious to see the newer SATA 6GB parts, but the differences between the fastest and slowest drives in our tests today is abo...
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...
