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
(79%)
116 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Huge capacity (2TB), 64MB cache, Very fast burst read, Five-year warranty
Expensive, SATA 6Gb/s interface yields negligible performance gains, Activating SATA 6Gb/s interface on current motherboards prevents dual-GPU operation
Seagate’s Barracuda XT is the first—and for now the only—mechanical hard drive on the market to support the new SATA 6Gb/s standard....
The 2TB Seagate, 6Gb/Sec drive is the fastest 7200rpm drive I've ever tested. This drive is a great combination of speed and storage in a single drive format. The 64MB cache is large enough to prevent any slow downs from you computer searching throu...
Abstract: Compared to its 2TB brethren, the Barracuda XT showed well in our HD Tach tests, with an average read of 115MBps and an average write of 100.5MBps. And due to its 6Mbps interface, it also bested them in burst rate with a speed of 300.4MBps. We also note that when connected to..
Abstract: The XT's 6.6W idle power isn’t revolutionary, but it's still good. The other 2TB drives are very close to this power consumption number. Seagate is much more power efficient at maximum streaming reads, where it doesn'tt exceed 8.5W. Other 2TB drives, including the previously-mentioned WD models, require more than 10W at peak..
It is clear that SATA III has a lot of potential but sadly we won’t being seeing that potential realized with mere 7200 RPM drives. The Seagate barracuda provides a valiant attempt at greatness but sadly is limited by the hardware in order to bypass...
Abstract: Solid-state drives may be all the rage lately, but that hasn’t stopped traditional spinning-platter hard drive manufacturers from innovating. Seagate, for example, recently released its first 2TB desktop hard drive with a SATA 6Gbps interface, the Barracuda XT...
Performance increase over previous generation, 64MB Cache, Large capacity, 5 Year Warranty...
Not a massive performance improvement, Price...
Testing has confirmed that the latest drive from Seagate does offer a slight performance boost, but not what you would think from the latest technology. It's not a Eureka moment! However, Seagate has even said that the technology is early and performa...
