The new Barracuda line of hard drives of Seagate consists of only 7200rpm models. There are 3.5-inch drives with 1 terabyte platters in the new Barracuda XT series, of which the largest model, a 3-terabyteschijf.
The advent of the new generation of Barracuda XT drives marks the end of the Barracuda LP, where LP for low power. Those disks rotated at 5400rpm, but are only a fraction more energy efficient, says David Burks at Computerworld, that Seagate is responsible for product marketing. According to Burks resulted in the difference in energy use of the consumer only a few tens of cents per year. “At the same time performs a 7200rpm hdd 30 to 33 percent better than a 5400rpm drive”.
Seagate, the new line delivers with capacities from 250GB to 3TB. The 1TB and 3TB models have 64MB cache, the smaller ones should do it with 16MB. The drives feature sata-600 interfaces and are equipped with Seagates OptiCache-, AcuTrak and SmartAlign technology. Thanks to this last feature allows the disks with 4kB sectors handle. With OptiCache drives may be the full cache amount of use of ddr2 instead of ddr1 is used.
StorageReview put the new 3TB model on the rack and found that the drive what sequential read and write speeds regarding 30 percent better than the previous 3TB model, which has five 600GB platters. Also in the field of energy scores the hdd is good. Only at the gamebenchmarks need the new instance to its predecessor, strangely enough, voorlaten.
