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.
We were expecting Seagate Barracuda XT 2 TB to smash its main competitor, Western Digital Caviar Black 2 TB, because of the use of the new SATA-600 interface, but this didn’t happen: both achieved the same performance level. In fact, Western Digital...
The Seagate Barracuda XT 2TB HDD is the fastest regular drive, but doesn’t have much performance improvement over the 3 Gb/second ports on the ASUS motherboard due to the regular hard disk not really saturating the SATA 2 bus. The cost of this drive is...
When it comes to performance, the Barracuda XT is hands down the fastest hard disk drive money can currently buy. However, the larger improvements are mainly seen in synthetic benchmarks. In real-world applications, you aren't likely to notice the dif...
Abstract: Seagate has finally started shipping their new Barracuda XT 2TB drives that feature the new 6Gb/s SATA interface based on SATA Revision 3.x specifications. We had an early preview of the drive a few weeks ago and finally received a production level it...
The 3TB Seagate, 6Gb/Sec drive is the largest and fastest internal 7200RPM drive we've tested. In today's market of superfast, but small SSD's, it's nice to see a large, fast mechanical drive. I have three harddrives in my test rig, this one drive i...
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....
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Published: 2009-10-29, Author: Chris , review by: tweaktown.com
Seagate wasn’t the first to market with a 2 terabyte desktop drive, but they did manage to pull off the first and at this time only SATA 6 GB/s drive. On one hand this is a big feat for the company, but on the other being the first doesn’t alw...
Large Capacity, Performance, Software utility to take advantage of operating system limitations, SATA 6Gb/s interface...
Measured access times...
The Seagate Barracuda XT 3TB drive is the next progression up the scale in terms of performance and just raw capacity. With three terabytes of storage space, this drive can hold just about anything you can throw at it, from music to movies to those tr...
In the world of high performance 3TB hard drives, there is no denying the Seagate Barracuda XT 3TB is currently king of the hill. What we have here is a cutting edge hard drive that offers massive capacity numbers alongside some truly impressive benchm...
