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Seagate Barracuda XT 2TB HDD Reviews

Patrick "MACMAC" MacMillan

2010-02-19 12:00:00.0


hardCOREware and Techgage have reviewed the brand new Seagate Barracuda XT 2TB, a refreshed SATA 6 Gb/s hard drive.

Here's what they had to say:
  • hardCOREware:

    "So the Barracuda XT has finally arrived. It has similar hardware to the 7200.12 (it doubles the platters and cache), but costs 50% more. That 50% gets you 6 Gbps SATA 3.0 connectivity, and an extra 2 years of warranty. And as you saw from our performance results, not much else. You might think that you need to buy one of the handful of motherboards that supports SATA 3.0, but that appears not to be the case. The Barracuda XT hardly sees much of a performance benefit going from SATA 2.0 to 3.0. Looking at the specs, you would probably guess this to be the case, but after putting it to the test, we can say it for sure. The XT ranges from “a little bit faster” than the 7200.12, to “pretty much identical”."


    Click here to read the full review.


  • Techgage:

    "Any way you look at it, this is a great drive. If I were to numerically rate it I would give it an 8 out of 10. The faults are small, but there are faults to be seen. There are definite areas of performance that are lackluster at best and at $299 you are paying quite the premium as well. I cannot help but suggest this drive as more of a system drive than a secondary drive since speed in the secondary role is just not important. With that consideration in mind, I can't help but think this is the ideal system drive since you are a partition away from having a super-fast booting OS as well as a truckload of space for all your digital media."


    Click here to read the full review.

The benefits of SATA 6 Gb/s can't really be appreciated with conventional hard drives, especially with those which aren't particularly faster than what's already on the market. Furthermore, if you truly want the fastest 2TB HDD on the market, you will instead want to take a look at the Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB WD2001FASS.

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