Thread: Seagate Barracuda ST32000641AS XT hard drive

The Seagate Barracuda XT has a 2 TB ST32000641AS SATA-600 port. SATA 600 doubled over the previous standard SATA 300, the maximum possible transfer rate up to 600 MB / s. In practice, hard drive will benefit the 3.5 but not by the SATA-600 port. Measurements of sequential data rates show that the disk itself in the burst mode is not more than 240 MB / s achieved. Another feature of the Seagate Barracuda XT is the large buffer memory of 64 MB. Also unusual is the addition built long warranty period: Seagate granted on the 3.5-inch hard drive 5 year warranty.

The Seagate Barracuda XT was the second fastest 3.5-inch hard drive in the test. A DVD copy of 4.2 GB size wrote and read the Seagate drive in 40 seconds for the copy she needed about a minute. excellent! Many small files transferred the Seagate Barracuda XT very quick. Thus, the 2000-GB hard disk for your letter of 1000 MP3 files needed with a total size of 5 GB is not even a minute. Took a little longer to read and the copy the Barracuda model needed then all right-half minutes. Uneven, the access time: The average access time was excellent with about 5 milliseconds, the maximum access time of 16 milliseconds, however, only average

The Seagate Barracuda XT moved under load almost 9 watts from the power supply for a 2000 GB drive with 7200 rpm, a moderate value. Good results showed the Barracuda model even with the volume measurements. The Seagate drive was both idle and under load barely audible. The operating temperature, however, was too high under load, exceeding the critical limit of 50 degrees Celsius.