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December 2009
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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 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...
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...
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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...
