Seagate Barracuda 750 GB SATA II Hard Drive (7200.10)

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Richard Poelling
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Seagate
May. 20, 2007

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With the introduction of perpendicular recording technology, hard drive capacity and speed have continued to increase. Even as the drives get bigger, their performance has not decreased, but risen to meet the challenge. This has been apparent between the older 500 GB 7200.9 drive and the 750 GB 7200.100 drive. Throughout my testing, the newer drive bested the older one each and every time. Of course, I would be very surprised to find a new product which performed worse than it predecessor, but I never rule it out. These 750 GB drives should perform excellently in your storage application and with the explosion of NAS devices which can accept these monster drives, the sky is the limit to how much storage you can create.

The one downside to shoving these disks into an enclosure is the enormous amounts of heat these generate. The 750 generated so much heat; it was hard to touch after rigorous testing. A single drive in a case shouldn't cause too much concern, at least not compared to a high end video card. If you are planning on throwing 4 of these into a NAS, just make sure you have a good fan and proper airflow. In the end, though, this drive carries Seagate's 5-year warranty which means you really shouldn't have to worry about buying a new drive, as long as your information is backed up, you should be good.

Past performance of Seagate drives had me a bit worried. After using this newer model, I am happy to report that I would highly recommend this drive. The performance is good, and as always, you just can't beat that warranty!

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Page 3: Iometer & DiskBench Benchmarks
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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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