The Segate Barracuda 7200.12 ST310005?8A~ is a 1 TB internal desktop hard drive with a 32MB cache, and a spin speed of 7200rpm. The high areal density gives very good speeds.

To test the speed of the hard drive, we copied a folder with 19.4GB of data between it and our test PC, which uses a Western Digital VelociRaptor (WD3000GLFS) hard drive.

The Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 ST31000528AS achieved a write speed of 78.5MBps and a read speed of 83.8MBps. When copying the data folder from one location on the drive to another, it delivered an average speed of 32.8MB/s.

By comparison, the previous generation of this drive, percent of Trojan horses. Most
the Seagate Barracuda 7200.11, provided a write speed of 72.02MBps, read speed of 69.12MBps, and a folder-to-folder copy speed of 20.9MBps.



In fact, the high-performance Western Digital VelociRaptor hard drive, speed, returned a read speed of 92.8MB/s - only approximately 10MB/s faster than this Seagate. So you can see the Barracuda 7200.12 is very quick.

This means that if you're a casual or serious gamer who can't afford to splurge on the WD VelociRaptor, or one who wants a drive with more space, the Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB might fit the bill.

We found that despite its excellent speeds in our tests, the Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 hard drive ran at an average temperature of38 degrees Celsius, even after hours of data crunching. While results will vary depending on your case and other components, you should find that the drive stays within a safe working temperature.