Testseek.com have collected 105 expert reviews of the Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 SATA300 ST3-AS Series and the average rating is 87%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 SATA300 ST3-AS Series.
December 2008
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The editors liked
1TB capacity
Quiet operation
5-year warranty
Solid read and write performance
1.5TB capacity
Fast performance
Very quiet
Relatively power efficient
The editors didn't like
It was slow in our file transfer test The Final Word While it was slower than expected in our file transfer tests
Theres a lot to like about this drive. Its good for a gaming PC due to its solid read and write performance scores
And its quiet and r...
A huge amount of data to back up (you’ll be in a world of hurt if it fails and you haven’t backed it up)
Abstract: It's well over six months since I reviewed the first commercially available 1 terabyte hard drive, the Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 . Back then I predicted all the other big names in hard drive manufacture would shortly be joining Hitachi at this milestone. Ho...
Low power usage; massive capacity; surprisingly good performance; quiet and cool; cost-effective; good reliability numbers.
Performance is a little below the competition.
While the RE2-GPs performance wont amaze, the relatively quiet and cool operation, plus the great price will appeal to users looking for good value....
Abstract: 4 So much for IDE. Seagate leaves the parallel interface behind, along with longitudinal recording, in its latest generation of PMR (perpendicular magnetic recording) terabyte drives. Seagate’s latest, the Barracuda 7200.11 is available in 500GB, 75...
Western Digital and Seagate clearly had very different goals in mind when they created their respective drives, and the benchmark data shows that they each had some success in achieving those goals. Their strengths certainly come with weaknesses attac...
1 Terabyte of storage, 32MB cache, Better cost/GB ratio than SCSI, 5 year warranty, 3.0 gigabits/sec I/O threshold, with the option to decrease to 1.5 gigabits/sec, Generation 2 Perpendicular Recording technology
Price may be of concern to some general consumers
We were a little worried that a drive the size of Barracuda 7200.11 1TB would not perform well. So much for those thoughts the 1TB Seagate is a fast drive with a good sustained throughput and very good access times. Even though a few of the benchmarks...
Abstract: Seagate has a lot of titles under their belt, but the first company to produce a 1 Terabyte hard drive isnt one of them. Regardless of who came in first, the only thing that matters is who is best and Seagate has proven to the world time and time agai...
From a technical standpoint, the Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 is one of the most advanced consumer level hard disks on the market. The drive showcases second generation perpendicular recording, 32 MB of cache, excellent multi-tasking performance, very ...
