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Seagate 160 GB SATA (ST3160023AS)
Introduction
The first generation of the Serial ATA standard has been around for some time now. In the beginning, people questioned if the new technology would even catch on. Today it can be fairly difficult to find a motherboard that does not support onboard SATA. The specifications for second generation SATA hard drives were officially published during the Intel Developer Forum in Barcelona, Spain last April. The second generation standard supports speeds of 300 MB/s, double that of the first generation's 150 MB/s. Thankfully, current SATA users will not have to upgrade their hardware or cables to make the switch from first to second generation SATA hard drives. Hopefully we will see second generation SATA hard drives on the market during the third quarter of 2004. Today, however, we will be looking at Seagate's first generation SATA hard drive, the Barracuda 7200.7 SATA (available with 80, 120, 160 and 200 GB), specifically the ST3160023AS, which features speeds of 7200 rpm, an 8.5 ms average seek time, 8 MB cache and 160 GB capacity.   
Page 1: Introduction
Page 2: A Closer Look Page 3: Test System / Benchmarks Page 4: Benchmarks: HD Tach 2.7 Page 5: Benchmarks: Disk Bench 2.2 Page 6: Benchmarks: WinBench 99 Page 7: Conclusion 
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3 User Comments 1 - Posted by
EmoMakesMeCry
on May 16, 2004 - 12:44 pm i have the seagate 120 gig version of that drive and absolutely love it. it doesnt perform any better than my 160 PATA master drive, but it is extremely quiet and doesn't emit enough heat to worry about. i really can't wait for the 2nd and 3rd generation drives to come out though. *insert greedy laugh here* 2 - Posted by
greymatter
on July 19, 2004 - 9:50 am I too own the 120GB Seagate drive and it's without a doubt the best drive I have ever owned. The performance jump, while small, has it where it counts. Moving multiple files and defragging is noticeably faster with this SATA over my other IDE still installed. I have previously run with quite a few IBM Deskstars which I also consider to be a rock solid drive and this Seagate has it beat. Great product. I definitely second Emo though and can't wait for the next generation drives to start my HTPC project. :wink: 3 - Posted by
Guest
on July 12, 2005 - 11:25 am Your board is limiting the performance. Why didn't you use the raid card that was sent?
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