Seagate Barracuda XT 2TB SATA 6G HD Review
CrystalDiskMark Testing
CrystalDiskMark is a synthetic test that evaluates both sequential as well as random small and large file transfers. It does a nice job of providing a quick look at best and worst case scenarios with regard to hard drive performance, best case being large sequential transfers and worse case being small, random 4K transfers.
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Seagate Barracuda XT 6G |
Seagate Barracuda XT 3G |
Western Digital RE4 |
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 |
The Barracuda XT offers measurably better performance than the 7200.11 edition drive, but the WD RE4 takes the top spot here. The WD RE4 is a bit slower then the XT in the sequential write test, but in every other the WD drive leads.