
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 750GB

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Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 750GB
Barracuda 7200.10 750GB Review, by Melissa J. Perenson May 17, 2006
Seagate's Barracuda 7200.10 750GB drive, the largest hard drive to date, sets new high-water marks for capacity, price, and performance. Its speed was especially notable on the PC World Test Center's write tests, where it came within a hair's breadth of matching Western Digital's swift 10,000-rpm Raptor X.
The Barracuda 7200.10 drive that our test center evaluated has 16MB of cache and supports SATA-150 by default, out of the box. We tested it using SATA-300, which required a jumper-setting change.
In our performance tests, the Barracuda 7200.10 750GB excelled across the spectrum. Among the bevy of 7200-rpm drives we've tested, it ranked first; and overall, it was bested only by the 10,000-rpm Raptor X. On our write tests, the new Seagate drive took just 2 minutes, 16 seconds to write a 3.06GB file of folders (a scant 2 seconds slower than the Raptor X), and 1 minute, 39 seconds to write a 3.06GB .zip file (a mark 3 seconds better than the Raptor X's).
On a cost-per-gigabyte basis, your wallet won't take a huge hit, either: The SATA version of this drive will debut at $590, which works out to $0.79 per gigabyte. That's higher than the $0.62 average cost of 7200-rpm drives, but it's below the usual $1 per gigabyte paradigm we've seen in recent years when a new drive hits the market.
The Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 750GB combines voluminous storage and high-end performance in a single drive. If you want high-capacity storage, this drive is your best bet: I'd rather use one drive--or two drives configured in a RAID array--than rely on a multidrive terabyte RAID array, many of which harness four or five drives together.
Melissa J. Perenson
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Performance
| ACDSee Test | 518 |
| Ahead Nero Burning Test | 397 |
| Interface Tested | SATA-300 |
| Large File Test | 98.75 |
| McAfee Virus Scan Test | 113.48 |
| Test Version | 1 |
| Windows File Search Test | 135.22 |
| Windows Files and Folders Test | 135.72 |
| WinZip Test | 320 |
Average User Reviews for Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 750GB
- Latest User Reviews 2 reviews
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Reviewed by: stubi
Duration of ownership: 2 Months
Strengths: Gives you the nostalgic sound of disks you had 20 years ago.
Weaknesses: Noise and noise and noise - but extreme. Can hear the disk very well seeking from 10 meters away. This is where my room ends.
Overall: I have a 7200.10 250 GB and a friend has a 7200.10 320 GB. Both are extremely noisy - seek noise. I have also 2 Maxtor Diamand 10, 1 Seagate 7200.9 and a Samsung - nothing to hear there... Avoid this disks. Seagate does not support Advanced Acoustic Management anymore. So there is no way to switch them to quiet mode. Dont use them for a desktop system.
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Reviewed by: Nekotronic
Duration of ownership: 2 Months
Overall: Works fine
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Reviewed by: damnwombat
Strengths: huge capacityhuge cacheshort non-sequential seek timesoperating temperature
Weaknesses: needs underlighting and a lift kit to go with the rims and spoiler
Overall: Great drive. It follows the SATA II standard so it works with new computers well, but you can jumper it so you can use it with SATA ports. Fast, reliable, and works great in an array.
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Reviewed by: tkps
Strengths: Provides your with enough storage space for all your digital needs.
Weaknesses: Little noisy.
Overall: This was a great buy from a seller I can trust and depend on. They are one of the best seller out there whom you can buy without any worries. Please keep up your great job.
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Reviewed by: zipmale
Strengths: fast speed, big capasity, affordable price
Weaknesses: no 4 pin power connector, little noise while processing data
Overall: this hard-drive is one the best on today's market. if your pc case does not have enough slots for hard drives it's better to purchase this one because nowadays people have so many video files which better be stored in one place; so three of those hard-drives will give you over 2 tb of space for your movie collection.
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Reviewed by: awint
Strengths: affordable price
Weaknesses: no regular 4 pin power connector
Overall: This harddrive is pretty good. Of course it was better to buy 2x500 Gb for the price I paid for this harddrive but my PC did not have enough harddrive slots.
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Reviewed by: tony1972
Strengths: Fast, Reliable, good price Per/GB
Weaknesses: none
Overall: Heard comments about heat and noise, but have not experienced myself. Have 3 750's installed a Gateway MicroBTX case. They perform very well. I was very weary after some bad experiences with other mfg. I use the drives for storing my DVD Collection and watch on Media Center 2005. At about 5GB's per movie, the space gets filled very quickly.
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