Thread: Seagate Barracuda XT and Western Digital Cavial Black

Despite increasingly attractive solid-state drives are hard drives still enjoy great popularity. This is not surprising, for while SSDs are fast, especially, to trump the HDDs in other areas: storage capacity. Still growing amounts of data to be stored locally on the PC. Whether it is the assurance of high definition movies, the administration still resolve those images, the ever-growing library, computer games, or else - is the trend to more amount of data continues unabated. Hard drives are also no longer as a purely local data storage. External enclosures, NAS systems and SOHO servers is due to the fact that the possibility of accessing the electronic long-term memory in many places and by many devices.



Of course, stops the development is not, even with hard disks are sent to the manufacturer, still squeeze out a little more performance. The latest craze for hard drives is therefore also the Serial ATA 3 (SATA 3) interface, have the relatively few media. Compared to older SATA was 2 standard, which also includes the new devices are backward compatible, of course, the theoretical maximum transfer rate doubled. Whopping 600 MB / s are there now in theory. We have now two current views 3 SATA hard drive models from major manufacturers. Seagate Barracuda sends the XT 7200.12 (ST32000641AS) with enormous two terabytes of capacity on the grid, the model comes from Western Digital Caviar Black (WD1002FAEX) with a terabyte of storage space in the duel. Both boards have 64 MB cache and rotate the platters at 7200 rpm.