Seagate Barracuda XT 6 Gbps SATA 3 performance review

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Posted on 09/23/2009 ( -at -) 11:22 AM

 

Seagate Barracuda XT 6 Gbps SATA 3 performance

 

HDD capacity has been increasing over the years. From my still in use HDD of

80GB, it has grown to 160GB, 500GB, 1TB and 1.5TB. Seagate Barracuda XT up

the ante with world's first 2TB 3.5" SATA3 HDD. It supports SATA-IO's Serial

ATA 6Gb/s interface. The Barracuda XT is built with 4 platter 7200rpm

framework and comes with a 64MB cache.

 

This new HDD looks identical to the older Barracuda series. The most

important changes would be the enlarged cache and also the 6Gbps (SATA3)

interface. As it is still the traditional HDD, it is able to achieve a burst

speed of 6 Gbps in theory. A sustained data rate should be around 138MB/s

(spec). In this review, we check out if it can achieve that.

 

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