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
Very fast
Silent
Cool
Energy-efficient
Sheer capacity
Performance
SATA 6Gbps
64MB buffer
The maximum storage capacity you can get
In one drive
Performs well and spins at 7200rpm
SATA 6Gbps support
Seagate DiscWizard software simplifies accessing the full capacity
The editors didn't like
Very expensive
Price
The drive heats up like a stove
Full capacity is accessible only after a workaround
Not much faster despite 64MB buffer
The price can buy you more storage space if you get lowercapacity drives instead.
Abstract: The verdict is in. Enthusiasts who've gotten their hands on an SSD and felt the difference don't want to go back to using a mechanical hard disk as a system drive. The advantages of flash-based storage...
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...
