bit-tech News: Seagate's Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB Hard Disk

news · January 1, 2009

Hi all,

We have just published a review of *Seagate's Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB

Hard Disk* - if you could post a link on your site that would be very

much appreciated.

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*/Currently available for around £111.54, this is an unquestionably

pricey drive, although not ridiculously so. In fact, in comparison to

the Samsung F1 1TB we favour here at bit-tech, it's only fifty percent

more expensive, which seems very fair considering you're getting fifty

percent more storage into the bargain.

For those with limited storage space running a media centre or small

form factor system this certainly seems like the better option,

especially when you consider that such setups are usually used for

storing large video files, which the Barracuda 1.5TB is perfect for.

Noise wise it's just as quiet as the previous Seagate and the Samsung

1TB drives, although the use of four platters rather than three does

make it a little hotter than the Samsung, although not enough to cause

any real concern -- the Seagate 1.5TB is rated to run at temperatures up

to 60°C, which you'd have to have a pretty poor cooling setup in your

case to be approaching.

While an unquestionably good hard disk in its own right, and a big

improvement over Seagate's previous quad platter 1TB drive in every

respect, the response time and subsequent effect on read/copy tasks

involving large numbers of small files in comparison to the Samsung

stops the Seagate Barracuda 1.5TB from taking the crown of top desktop

mechanical hard drive tested to date. For use as a boot or game storage

the Samsung is still the superior disk, but if you're after more storage

in a single drive for your media centre or looking to store a ton of

larger files, then it's still a superb choice./*

*Cheers guys!

Tim Smalley

www.bit-tech.net

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