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Buying older SATA2 disks can be a cost-effective way of kitting out a system. However, age doesn't always equate to an ultra-low price, particularly when dealing with disks such as the enterprise-grade Seagate Barracuda ES.2 1TB, which is designed to s...
Although it's built to last and has a massive warranty, this SATA2 disk is terribly slow compared to cheaper SATA3 disks...
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Youve heard this before, but its worth re-iterating: the most important component in your PC is the hard drive. The CPU, the RAM, even the motherboard, if they fail, can be replaced at the mercy of your budget. But, and those who have lost photos and...
Efficient power consumption, runs very quietly, relatively cool, optimised for 24/7 systems...
It was sluggish in our file transfer tests The Final Word Always-on PCs, small business servers and home media centres will benefit from this drive as its very quiet and runs relatively cool. However, its single drive performance was sluggish in our t...
Always-on PCs, small business servers and home media centres will benefit from this drive as its very quiet and runs relatively cool. However, its single drive performance was sluggish in our tests.
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Hitachi started the terabyte drive ball rolling in August, but in the last month we’ve had drives from Western Digital and Seagate arrive. We’re very happy to see them all.Seagate has released two different terabyte drives under the one B...
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How much storage space is enough storage space? Well that is going to depend on each individual. What I consider to be an ample amount will not be enough for Joe down the street. Having developed the habit of keeping all my files backed up on a NAS (...
The Seagate Barracuda ES.2 750GB hard drive is for the most part physically the same as the Barracuda 7200.10 (Desktop Version) with a modifications. With the Barracuda ES.2 drive being an enterprise class drive, it's likely to be packed in a server...
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When shopping for a hard drive, most people don’t consider anything more than the amount of space you’re going to get for the lowest price. I will admit I’ve been guilty of this in the past. Of course as with anything else, there is a lot more to consi...
If I were on the market for hard drives right now and wanted a reliable drive to be uses in a RAID array or file server the ES.2 series drives would be a perfect choice. Of course there is a price premium to run the enterprise class hard drives; but co...
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Under multi-user loads, however, the story changes entirely. In the past, Seagate\'s ATA and SATA offerings have been middling performers with drives from firms such as Western Digital and the old Maxtor aggressively seizing the lead when it came to loads featuring significant amounts of concurrency.
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hothardware.com Updated:
2013-09-24 05:07:15
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A few months ago, we evaluated the 1-terabyte (TB) Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 SATA hard drive. We found the drive to offer many positive features in addition to its massive capacity. In this article, well be looking at Seagates flagship enterprise-c...
The Seagate Barracuda ES.2 1TB drive generally performed well, with a few exceptions. The Barracuda ES.2s HD Tach, HD Tune, and most of the Sandra results were impressive in light of the competition. But the drives PCMark Vantage results and the Sa...
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Seagate has added two new 1 TB drives to its Barracuda fleet of HDDs, namely the Barracuda 7200.11 and ES.2. These use Perpendicular Magnetic Recording (PMR) technique on four platters, which results in higher data density than achieved with tradition...
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With HD Camcorders getting more popular by the day, most of the space on our hard drive is being consumed by videos. Add to that the never-ending additions to your music collection and photos from your 7+ Megapixel camera, you start running out of stor...
The Seagate Barracuda is one incredibly fast drive and the proof is in the numbers posted above. Besides being really fast, its also pretty quiet. When idle youll barely be able to tell if the drive is even powered up or not. Under load, the drive was...
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Enterprise storage used to be dominated by expensive SCSI solutions with lofty spindle speeds. In recent years, however, Serial ATA drives spinning at a mere 7,200RPM have become increasingly popular for applications that favor storage capacity and cos...
To say that the Barracuda ES.2s performance is disappointing would be an understatement. In fact, we were so surprised by the drives scores in some tests that we contacted Seagate to see what was up. Its been a couple of weeks since, and theyre sti...
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As we alluded to in Part 1 of this review the Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200.11 is aimed at the mainstream consumer market and the Seagate Barracuda 1TB ES.2 is designed more for enterprise networking solutions. In this part of the review we will concentr...
1 Terabyte of storage, Low CPU utilization in benchmark, 32MB cache, Better cost/GB ratio than SCSI, 5 year warranty, 3.0 gigabits/sec I/O threshold, with the option to decrease to 1.5 gigabits/sec, Generation 2 Perpendicular Recording technology, Error C...
Price may be of concern to some general consumers...
After reviewing the benchmarks you might think that in some areas the Seagate Barracuda 1TB ES.2 does not perform as well as its older counter part. Let us draw your attention to the fact that in all the primary benchmark results (i.e.; Sequential Rea...
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Seagate continues to break new ground in the enterprise and business markets with its latest Barracuda ES.2 drives which weigh in at up to 1-Terrabyte of capacity. While Hitachi was first this year with a 1TB drive to the desktop and retail side of thi...
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