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Seagate Barracuda XT 2TB SATA600

Based on 24 reviews

Excellent:

6
Good:

10
Average:

6
Bad:

2

Pros

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.
Build Quality, Great Performance, 2TB Of Space, SATA3 (6.0Gb/s), Price
Very fast, silent, cool, energy-efficient
Very fast drive, Large capacity, New SATA 3 interface
Huge capacity (2TB), 64MB cache, Very fast burst read, Five-year warranty.
Very good 148 MBps read bandwidth with ATTO Benchmark, 3nd-generation SATA 6.0 GBps compliant controller, High 2-Terabyte storage capacity, Outstanding total-package value, 64MB Cache buffer improves burst transactions, Low-power standby conserves ener...
Sheer capacity, Performance, SATA 6Gbps, 64MB buffer
System Is Snappier, Backward Compatible With Sata 2, Quiet, 64MB Cache, Standard SATA Interface, Sata 3 Interface, Seagate Quality

Cons

The Seagate Barracuda runs rather hot.
Very expensive
SATA 6G Deowsn’t make much difference really
Performs better on 3Gb/s SATA; can't match WD Caviar Black; 6Gb/s SATA is unnecessary.
Expensive, SATA 6Gb/s interface yields negligible performance gains, Activating SATA 6Gb/s interface on current motherboards prevents dual-GPU operation.
Unimpressive bandwidth for the World's first SATA 6G product
Price
Not A Major Speed Improvement, Higher Price Than Other 2TB Drives

By BeHardware on August 30, 2011

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...

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By cnet on April 14, 2011

Storage-hungry users, especially tech-savvy ones, will find the Seagate Barracuda XT a great balance of storage space, backward compatibility, and speedy...

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By DigitalVersus on January 26, 2011

Although its write speeds aren't quite as good as the WD Caviar Black, the Barracuda XT is still a very good hard drive. It will, however, need to come down in price before it makes a serious and attractive alternative to the...

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By Real World Labs on August 21, 2010

From the very first moment i heard about SATA3 i knew it would bring nothing extraordinary on the table, at least not at first. Even SATA2 controllers took quite some time to mature and perform as they do today so i expect the same to be...

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By HardwareHeaven on June 20, 2010

For support Seagate offer a 5-Year warranty and consumers can contact them through email and live chat. A customer forum is also available. Finally we have the value aspect, currently the Barracuda XT is priced at a slightly lower level than other 2TB...

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By HotHardware on April 16, 2010

Above is a chart we put together that represents an (unweighted) geometric mean of the overall performance of each drive, based on all the tests we performed. Use this chart as a rough guide only, as we used an admittedly simplistic methodology to...

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By X-bit Labs on April 16, 2010

Now, let’s do some summarizing. We will go through the tested products in alphabetic order.The Hitachi 7K1000.C had very odd basic firmware with low performance, but now it looks decent enough. It breaks no records and is not completely free from...

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By HotHardware on March 18, 2010

There are two aspects of the Barracuda XT's performance that need summarizing, its performance when connected to a SATA 6G controller versus a SATA 3G controller, and its performance versus competing, high-capacity drives. First, let's tackle...

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By TechTree on March 11, 2010

The Seagate Barracuda XT 2TB is a tremendous performer and is one of the fastest hard drives available at this point of time. While you may be tempted to guess that this has been possible due to the faster SATA III interface, we must assure you that...

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By Testfreaks on March 08, 2010

SATA 6 or SATA 3 or whatever you want to call it is a new technology and at this point it’s not that much faster than the SATA 2 interface. The new Seagate Barracuda XT though is a different story, this drive is fast, probably the fastest 7200RPM...

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