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.
Published: 2011-08-07, Author: The , review by: hardwarebbq.com
Abstract: 3TB Drives with SATA 6Gb/s interfaces coming in hot! This time its a Seagate Barracuda XT 3TB drive.Power of Barracuda XT but with 5 platters. Let's see how this turns out!1. Introduction 2. Packaging, Specs and First Impression 3. Test Setup and and Be...
Abstract: A 2TB hard drive running at 7,200 rpm on a 6Gb/s SATA connection, the Seagate Barracuda XT ($149.99 list) sports a 64MB cache, DiscWizard software for configuration and more. Other features include desktop RAID support, RoHS compliance, thanks to being...
Price, SATA 6GB, 7200RPM, Tons of Space, Relatively Quiet, Well Built,
None Really, Although I would love to see a Momentus XT 3TB 3.5 model some day
Personally I was quite happy with the overall performance that was achieved by the Seagate Barracuda XT. It was fast easy to setup and very robust as far as features go for a lower $200 price point. The 3 platter, 1TB-per, design Segate has achieved i...
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 ...
Most people wouldn’t expect to be comparing the Seagate Barracuda XT to the Western Digital Velociraptor, but Seagate has managed to take a 7200RPM drive and put it in the performance levels of a 10,000 RPM drive. As such, we would actually have to rec...
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
The Seagate Barracuda runs rather hot
Storage-hungry users, especially tech-savvy ones, will find the Seagate Barracuda XT a great balance of storage space, backward compatibility, and speedy performance.
Excellent performance, Balanced read and write, 3TB capacity, SATA 6Gb/s, DiscWizard software for disk cloning and backup, 5 year warranty
DiscWizard will not work with RAID
The Seagate Barracuda XT 3TB is the fastest mechanical drive that we have tested. The drive has excellent sequential read and write up to 150MB/s. While SSDs may grab the market headlines, they are still relatively expensive at $1.5 per gigabyte and w...
Lots of storage space. Does not require Host Bus Adapter to access full capacity. Speedy.
Expensive. DiscWizard software slightly clunky.
With Seagate's new Barracuda XT hard drive, you won't need to install additional hardware to access all 3TB of its storage space, but you will need special software—and the willingness to pay more. Buy it now...
Very good 162 MB/s read bandwidth with ATTO Benchmark, 3ndgeneration SATA 6Gb/s compliant controller, Massive 3Terabyte storage capacity, Outstanding totalpackage value, 64MB Cache buffer improves burst transactions, Lowpower standby conserves energy, 5Year Seagate product warranty, Additional performance available via shortstroking,
2.1TB Barrier not removed via native hardware instruction
IMPORTANT: Although the rating and final score mentioned in this conclusion are made to be as objective as possible, please be advised that every author perceives these factors differently at various points in time. While we each do our best to ensure...
Seagate came a little tardy into the bare drive consumer 3TB market, but with that extra time they were able to offer a solution that lets buyers make use of the drive's full potential without add-on hardware. By waiting for Intel driver support and o...
