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 free space on our computers’ hard disks is getting consumed at a tremendous rate in our never-ending search for higher quality. HD video, 15-megapixel photographs, lossless audio, high-resolution textures of latest games are the reasons why we don’...
Abstract: Of course the main advantage of a 7200 RPM drive is speed, and the XT definitely has that. It performed very well in our test suite, beaten only by a SSD in application and file copy performance, and coming in third behind a SSD and Seagate's hybrid Momentus XT in boot and loading times. However, it wasn't that much faster than a 1TB Barracuda 7200.11...
Build Quality, Great Performance, 2TB Of Space, SATA3 (6.0Gb/s), Price
None
From the very first moment i heard about SATA3 i knew it would bring nothing extraordinary on the table, at least not at first. Even SATA2 controllers took quite some time to mature and perform as they do today so i expect the same to be the...
Now, let’s do some summarizing. We will go through the tested products in alphabetic order.The Hitachi 7K1000.C had very odd basic firmware with low performance, but now it looks decent enough. It breaks no records and is not completely free from short...
Abstract: Above is a chart we put together that represents an (unweighted) geometric mean of the overall performance of each drive, based on all the tests we performed. Use this chart as a rough guide only, as we used an admittedly simplistic methodology to create these comparison numbers: All the test scores were calculated with equal weighting; we factored..
High Capacity, Good Performance, 64MB Cache, 7200 RPM
SATA 6G Didn't Help Performance, Much More Expensive than somewhat slower, similar capacity drives
Overall, in light of some competing offerings, the Segate Barracuda XT is an excellent performer. The Barracuda XT was somewhat faster than Seagate's previous desktop flagship 7200.11 series drive in the majority of our tests. The Western Digital RE4 seri...
Very fast drive, Large capacity, New SATA 3 interface
SATA 6G Deowsn’t make much difference really
SATA 6 or SATA 3 or whatever you want to call it is a new technology and at this point it’s not that much faster than the SATA 2 interface. The new Seagate Barracuda XT though is a different story, this drive is fast, probably the fastest 7200RPM dr...
We know you’re probably just as confused as we are by the results. Shouldn’t the SATA3 drive with 236MB/s Burst Rates be faster? Let us attempt to explain. Hard drives do their best work when coupled with a good Storage Controller. In this particular...
At the onset of this review, I pretty much had myself convinced that there was going to be little to gain from the increased bandwidth of the new SATA 3 bus with this drive. Time and time again we have seen bandwidth speeds increase, while other facto...
So the Barracuda XT has finally arrived. It has similar hardware to the 7200.12 (it doubles the platters and cache), but costs 50% more. That 50% gets you 6 Gbps SATA 3.0 connectivity, and an extra 2 years of warranty. And as you saw from our performan...
