Testseek.co.uk 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.
Support for 6Gbps Serial ATA may be the Barracuda XT's most intriguing attribute, but the 'cuda has little to offer the standard. By Seagate's own admission, the drive's mechanical platters aren't nearly fast enough to need even a 200M...
System Is Snappier, Backward Compatible With Sata 2, Quiet, 64MB Cache, Standard SATA Interface, Sata 3 Interface, Seagate Quality
Not A Major Speed Improvement, Higher Price Than Other 2TB Drives
We took the long hard road on the Barracuda XT and studied and tested it as many ways as we could think of. Since it's a new interface, on a new drive, it warranted a more through look than say a Sata 2 speed bump drive. We like the Seagate Barracuda...
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...
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...
