Seagate Barracuda XT 2TB SATA 6G HD Review

Name: Seagate Barracuda XT 2TB SATA 6G HD Review - Page 4
Brand: Seagate

by Marco Chiappetta — Thursday, March 18, 2010, 12:00 PM EDT

Testing began with SiSoftware's SANDRA XII, the System ANalyzer, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant. Here, we used the Physical Disk test suite and provided the results from our comparison drives. The benchmarks were run without formatting and read performance metrics are detailed below. We also included SANDRA's graph so you are able to see how the drive performs over time along with the average rated result.

SiSoft SANDRA 2009

Synthetic Benchmarks

Seagate Barracuda XT 6G	Seagate Barracuda XT 3G
Western Digital RE4	Seagate Barracuda 7200.11

The Seagate Barracuda XT put up the best read performance scores according to SiSoft SANDRA, by a new megabytes per second, at least. The move from SATA 3G to SATA 6G, however, had little affect on performance.

Seagate Barracuda XT 6G	Seagate Barracuda XT 3G
Western Digital RE4	Seagate Barracuda 7200.11

Write performance was a whole different story. Here, with the Barracuda XT was connected to a SATA 6G controller, it actually performed slightly lower than when connected to SATA 3G. And the WD RE4 drive put up the best write score.

Tags: Seagate, Hard Drive, Storage, SATA 6G

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