Platter density has been the crutch of hard drive makers in recent history. Increasing spindle speeds can reduce random access latency, but at the expense of cost and thermals. Improvements in random access performance via increasing spindle speed pale in comparison to what is possible with solid...

Let's take a look at the latest 3 TB hard drive from Seagate, the Barracuda 3 TB, and see how it performs when we put it through its paces.

Sometimes you just need to have all your stuff stored in one place. Having multiple drives and partitions can get confusing when it comes to both accessing your data and figuring out what needs to be backed up, not to mention the mess of power and data cables that comes from installing more than two...

3TB; Runs cool and quiet; Good performance

Can be tricky to install; Needs a modern motherboard if it's to be used as a boot disk

Seagate has replaced all its existing 3.5-inch hard drives with the 7200.14 series. It has 1TB platters, and we tested the 2TB model.

The price was right and it works great. I copied 1.5TB between this drive and a comparable Seagate 3TB model. I reached continous write speeds of up tp 200MBs. By the time the drive was half full, the speed was down to 150-160 continous.

None so far

This is OEM packaging which is just fine as far as I'm concerned. The drives are brand new and function as expected. I've had several Western Digital externals fail so I'm giving these Seagates a try mirrored internally on Vista. So far so good. Great price for a great product.

Well, its a harddrive, what can i say. Plugged it in, switched on the PC, went into the manage thingy for Windows 7 and formatted it. It works like any harddrive should :) Some folks in other comments have noticed a click, its a double click on spin up and spin down, simply the heads moving on and...

This is a very good product. The drive installed in minutes and was functioning after an easy formatting exercise with disk utility. It's fast and has exceptional capacity at a great price. Highly recommend this product.

This is a very good product. The drive installed in minutes and was functioning after an easy formatting exercise with disk utility. It's fast and has exceptional capacity at a great price. Highly recommend this product.

Very good drive and has plenty of space!