Today everyone is looking for hard disk drives with extensive storage capacity and so Seagate has fulfilled this requirement, and released a capacity drive under its Barracuda XT lineup. This drive is for consumers looking for high capacity drives like more than 3TB.
The design is nothing unusual in the Barracuda XT. It weights normally around 700 g and has 3.5-inch form factor. The cache is of 64MB with SATA 6 GB/s interface. It also offers 7200 rpm spin speed which is pretty common in performance drives. If your motherboard doesn’t have UEFI BIOS then to eliminate 2.1 TB Legacy issue and read full 3TB capacity of Barracuda XT, DiscWizard Software is used. This feature is to add more compatibility to all older PC’s.
Specifications of Seagate Barracuda XT 3TB :
- Processor: Intel Core i7-2600K CPU @ 3.40 GHz
- Motherboard: GIGABYTE P67A-UD3R
- Memory: Corsair Dominator GT 4 GB DDR3 (2 x 2 GB)
- Hard drive: WD Velociraptor 300 GB
- GPU: ASUS GeForce GTX 580 DirectCU II
- PSU: Cooler Master 1000W
The Barracuda is superb in terms of performance and has recorded drive index of 122.47 MB/s with random access time of 17.3 ms. Some other tests like recording 4 GB single file from VelociRaptor to the Seagate Drive speed of 107.39 MB/s and transfer rate of 95.27 MB/s is observed. You will get speeds of 115.9 MB/s for a 4 GB single file transfer and 84.87 for 4 GB assorted file while transferring to Seagate drive.
Performance wise Barracuda XT has left behind Caviar Green and 25% growth is seen in file transfer of 4GB between the partitions of the Seagate hard drive.
You will be required to download DiscWizard software for old systems only after which full hard drive will be detected by system else the one-third of the Barracuda XT’s capacity will not be used. If the system is too old then don’t use the Seagate Barracuda XT 3TB as primary hard drive.
