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Seagate 3TB Barracuda XT 6Gb/s SATA III Hard Drive Review
Seagate 3TB Barracuda XT 6Gb/s SATA III Hard Drive Review - PCSTATS
On the PCSTATS test bench today is Seagate's 3TB, 6Gb/s SATA III Barracuda XT hard drive which gets around the 2.1TB desktop storage capacity limitation by creating two partitions (2.1TB + 0.9TB) with the aid of Seagate's free DiskWizard software.
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HDD Benchmarks: Sandra 2011

SiSoft Sandra 2009 Source: Sandra

Sandra is designed to test the theoretical power of a complete system as well as the individual components. The results are also purely theoretical and may not represent real world performance.

PCSTATS Benchmark ReportSiSoft Sandra 2011 - Hard Drive Read Tests
Read Drive Index: Points Ranking
Western Digital 1TB WD1001FALS HDD 80.13
Western Digital 1TB WD1001FALS HDD (RAID 0) 147.83
Western Digital 1TB WD1001FALS HDD (RAID 1) 147.83
OCZ Vertex 2 128GB SSD 253.65
Plextor PX-128M1S SSD 87.5
Seagate 3TB Barracuda XT HDD 127.86
Seagate 2TB Barracuda XT HDD 110.85
Seagate 750GB Momentus XT SSHD 91.39
Seagate 500GB Momentus XT SSHD 84.53
Read Random Access Time: (ms) Points Ranking
Western Digital 1TB WD1001FALS HDD 4
Western Digital 1TB WD1001FALS HDD (RAID 0) 1
Western Digital 1TB WD1001FALS HDD (RAID 1) 1
OCZ Vertex 2 128GB SSD 0.55
Plextor PX-128M1S SSD 0.55
Seagate 3TB Barracuda XT HDD 17.23
Seagate 2TB Barracuda XT HDD 17.8
Seagate 750GB Momentus XT SSHD 15
Seagate 500GB Momentus XT SSHD 17.78

When it comes to Read performance the 3TB Seagate Barracuda XT HDD does not disappoint with a result of 127.86MB/s! Random Access Time is 17.2ms, a little quicker than its 2TB brother.

PCSTATS Benchmark ReportSiSoft Sandra 2011 - Hard Drive Write Tests
Write Drive Index: Points Ranking
Western Digital 1TB WD1001FALS HDD 85.99
Western Digital 1TB WD1001FALS HDD (RAID 0) 170.5
Western Digital 1TB WD1001FALS HDD (RAID 1) 77.97
OCZ Vertex 2 128GB SSD 232.32
Plextor PX-128M1S SSD 151.78
Seagate 3TB Barracuda XT HDD 128.47
Seagate 2TB Barracuda XT HDD 111.44
Seagate 750GB Momentus XT SSHD 148.84
Seagate 500GB Momentus XT SSHD 102.52
Write Random Access Time: (ms) Points Ranking
Western Digital 1TB WD1001FALS HDD 12
Western Digital 1TB WD1001FALS HDD (RAID 0) 13
Western Digital 1TB WD1001FALS HDD (RAID 1) 5
OCZ Vertex 2 128GB SSD 0.15
Plextor PX-128M1S SSD 0.18
Seagate 3TB Barracuda XT HDD 3.65
Seagate 2TB Barracuda XT HDD 6.61
Seagate 750GB Momentus XT SSHD 9.65
Seagate 500GB Momentus XT SSHD 7

The 3TB Seagate Barracuda XT SATA III HDD achieved a write index of 128.4MB/s in Sandra, somewhat quicker than its 2TB twin. Curiously, write random access time is 3.65ms.

HD Tach results are up next.

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Contents of Article: Seagate 3TB Barracuda XT
 Pg 1.  Seagate 3TB Barracuda XT 6Gb/s SATA III Hard Drive Review
 Pg 2.  Seagate's Solution to the 2.1TB Barrier - DiskWizard
 Pg 3.  6Gb/s SATA III Requirements
 Pg 4.  HDD Benchmarks: PCMark Vantage
 Pg 5.  HDD Benchmarks: HD Tune Pro Read / Write
 Pg 6.  — HDD Benchmarks: Sandra 2011
 Pg 7.  HDD Benchmarks: HD Tach
 Pg 8.  HDD Benchmark: File Transfer & Conclusions

 
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