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 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..
File CopyingFor this test a single 8.5GB file is copied from an OCZ Vertex 2 SSD system disk to the test disk (write to), from the test disk to the OCZ Vertex 2 SSD (read from), and from the test disk to itself (read and write to self). While this test is...
We will of course have a full review of the bare 4TB Barracuda XT when released, but our initial testing shows a tremendous amount of promise. We saw sequential speeds very close to 190 MB/s read and write, which is faster than many consumer hard driv...
Abstract: When we reviewed our first 3TB hard drive almost a year ago, the market wasn't quite ready for the huge storage capacity being made available. Fully compatible motherboards featuring the unified extensible firmware interface (UEFI) were still months aw...
Abstract: When we reviewed our first 3TB hard drive almost a year ago, the market wasn't quite ready for the huge storage capacity being made available. Fully compatible motherboards featuring the unified extensible firmware interface (UEFI) were still months away,...
Unfortunately there's no such thing as the perfect hard drive and you'll have to choose your drive according to your priorities. If you’re looking for performance, for a model that will also be serving as a primary drive for example, you’ll want to go ...
After recording all the numbers in the graphs it has become quite evident that the performance numbers of SATA 3 7200RPM drives are quite close to each other and so i can't help it but to wonder why all the manufacturing companies out there hav...
