Seagate Barracuda 750 GB SATA II Hard Drive (7200.10)

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Richard Poelling
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May. 20, 2007

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Introduction

How much storage does one person need? 20GB, 40GB, 200Gb? Where does it end, or does it even end? Lucky for us, we never really have to answer that question. Each passing day brings us greater capacities for less money. Just last year, the 500GB hard drive was all the rage, now, in front of me is a brand new 750 GB drive. Yep, 3/4 of a terabyte! Never really thought I would see that word and home storage ever near each other. Honestly, how many wholesome family films can someone store on their computer?

Unlike the last storage review I performed, this time I just have a single drive. Interestingly enough, one of the manufacturers that I reviewed previously is now owned by one of the others (Seagate buying Maxtor). Go figure! The other interesting thing to note is that the 750 GB hard drive capacity is really just a stepping stone to what would be considered the ultimate goal (for now at least) of the 1 Terabyte drive. I know these are coming, or at least the mockups were really well done. Either way, the 750 is just the tip of the massive storage iceberg awaiting our future, until something else bigger comes out.

Today I am looking at the Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 750 GB hard drive model # ST3750640AS. Something to note is that this particular drive sports the new perpendicular recording technology, thus the .10 designation. Our previous review did not have the benefit of this model. It will be interesting to see how the numbers we got previously on a smaller drive will compare to its newer, larger brethren.

First Looks

Normally, this is where I would extol the virtues of the snappy product packaging and slick design layout. This is a hard drive, looks like a hard drive, smells like a hard drive, and yes, even tastes like a hard drive, with a hint of motherboard thrown in. Really, one would be hard pressed to tell this 750 GB drive from the 500 GB, or even a 300, or 400. No one (at least not sane people), looks longingly at the styling of your average hard drive. So really, let's just get to the specifics of the testing.

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Page 1: Introduction & First Looks
Page 2: Test Setup & HDTach Benchmarks
Page 3: Iometer & DiskBench Benchmarks
Page 4: Conclusion

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3 User Comments

1 - Posted by PsychoSnowMan on May 20, 2007 - 9:12 pm

The results on those tests look great for this drive, but how loud is it? Both spin and head movements?

2 - Posted by Rich on May 21, 2007 - 1:17 pm

The drive was really no different then the Hitachi 500GB I am running next to it. I could hear it when it was under heavy load, but nothing I would consider excessive in relation to what I have heard from other drives.

3 - Posted by jayman on May 22, 2007 - 5:33 pm

Been using one of these for quite awhile now, unfortunately the last 100 GB of the drive act up & click quite a bit, and several slow downs.

I have paired this drive with a "AMS Venus DS3 DS-2316SU2SBK" when I went on vacation, after several torture tests, the enclosure was cooled well enough, so that I could pick up the case afterwards, but of course it was very warm.

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