Pros
- Good price
- Five-year warranty
Cons
- Slow
- Bare drive, no extras
At A Glance
Seagate's 750GB drive has only an 8MB buffer; it performed worse than the CMS Products equivalent with 16MB of buffer.
The Specs
| Pricing | |
|---|---|
| Part Number | ST3750640AS |
| Inventory Number | 25646 |
| Storage | |
| Drive size | 750.0 GB |
| Hard Drive Speed | 7200 RPM |
| General | |
| Buffer Size | 8.0 MB |
| Ports and Connections | |
| Available Interfaces | SATA-300 |
| Serial ATA | SATA-300 |
Performance
| PC World Test Center | |
|---|---|
| Interface tested | SATA-300 |
| Performance | |
|---|---|
| Primary Volume - Virus Scan | 56.17 |
| Primary Volume - Windows File Search | 169.3 |
| Internal Read - WinZip | 351 |
| Internal Write - Large File | 138.15 |
| Internal Read - ACDSee | 553 |
| Test Version | 2 |
| Internal Read - Ahead Nero Burning | 483 |
| Internal Write - Files and Folders | 157.03 |
