Seagate Barracuda XT 2TB SATA 6G HD Review

Name: Seagate Barracuda XT 2TB SATA 6G HD Review - Page 5
Brand: Seagate

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

ATTO is a more straight-forward type of disk benchmark that measures transfers across a specific volume length. It measures raw transfer rates for both reads and writes and graphs them out in an easily interpreted chart. We chose .5kb through 8192kb transfer sizes over a total max volume length of 256MB. This test was performed on blank, formatted drives with NTFS partitions.

ATTO Disk Benchmark - Read/Write Performance

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

Whether connected to a SATA 3G or SATA 6G controller, the Barracuda XT was the best overall performer according to the ATTO benchmark. All of the drives are tightly grouped, but the XT was a few MB/s faster then the rest of the pack overall.

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

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