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Seagate Barracuda 3TB Hard Drive Reviews

Patrick "MACMAC" MacMillan

2012-03-12 07:00:00.0


Hardware Secrets and t-break have tested the huge and very fast Seagate Barracuda 3TB (ST3000DM001) hard drive.

Let's see what they had to say:

  • Hardware Secrets:

    "In CrystalDiskMark, the Barracuda 3 TB showed the best level of performance in the Sequential test and Random test using 512 KB blocks, although it was beaten by both drives in the random read and write tests using 4 KB blocks.

    Regarding HD Tune, the Barracuda 3 TB beat the other drives in every test by a significant margin, except the burst transfer rate where it achieved the same result as the Barracuda Green 2 TB. These results were also reflected in the access time test, where the Barracuda 3 TB achieved the best level of performance."


    Click here to read the full review.


  • t-break:

    "The above real world tests show that despite the incredible transfer speeds thanks to higher density platters, the Seagate Barracuda 3TB is still limited by the harsh realities of life: 7,200RPM hard drives with relatively tiny cache just cannot hope to match with hybrid and solid state drives.

    In a world where we need access to heavy programs and browsers that get larger by the add-ons, not to mention extremely demanding video games, normal 7,200RPM hard drives just can’t cut it anymore. On the other hand, sequential transfer speeds are exceptional, which is what you should be concerned about if you’re going to use the Seagate Barracuda 3TB just for data storage."


    Click here to read the full review.

This is clearly one of the better 3TB HDDs on the market right now, but if Seagate is not your brand there are quite a few other 3TB options out there.

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