WITHOUT THE PRODUCT CARE PLAN THIS HD IS NOT WORTH THE MONEY IT HAS THE WORST PERFORMANCE RATING OF ALL HD'S MORE THAN 50% DIE IN THE FIRST YEAR

Very poorly packed by seller shiv shakti tech and also the courier partner which he delivered from was equally poor in handling the drive as well as a result received a DOA HDD not recognized its full space of 3000gb was recognising as a 4.1 gb drive and windows was not able to recognize the drove...

Easy To Install; Fast

Expensive; Runs Hot; Unreliable

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.

Desktop storage has been stuck at 2TB for quite a while. Higher platter density is needed in order to break the 3TB barrier, which leads to the industry-wide adaptation of 4K advanced format, replacing the 512 sector that was introduced back in the 80's.

Excellent performance; Balanced read and write; 3TB capacity; SATA 6Gb/s; DiscWizard software for disk cloning and backup; 5 year warranty

DiscWizard will not work with RAID; May have issue with some chipset (buyers should check with the motherboard chipset manufacturer first

Although Solid State Drives are all the rage lately, they comprise only a fraction of the overall desktop PC storage market. While SSDs are undeniably fast and enhance the overall user experience, they are also prohibitively expensive for many users and offer relatively low capacities.

High Capacity; Good Performance; 64MB Cache; 7200 RPM

SATA 6G Didn't Help Performance; Much More Expensive than somewhat slower; similar capacity drives

A 2TB hard drive running at 7,200 rpm on a 6Gb/s SATA connection, the Seagate Barracuda XT ($149.99 list) sports a 64MB cache, DiscWizard software for configuration and more. Other features include desktop RAID support, RoHS compliance, thanks to being comprised of 70 percent recycled materials and...

The newest EcoGreen is a huge improvement noise-wise over the disappointing F3. Measuring only 13 dBA and 15 dBA at one meter when idle and seeking, respectively, the acoustics of the 2TB F4 at last brings EcoGreen parity with Caviar Green.

Support for 6Gbps Serial ATA may be the Barracuda XT's most intriguing attribute, but the 'cuda has little to offer the standard. By Seagate's own admission, the drive's mechanical platters aren't nearly fast enough to need even a 200MB/s link, let alone the 300MB/s one provided by the second-gen...

With SSDs making inroads into territory previously occupied by standard hard drives, we've seen a renaissance of sorts as some manufacturers begin pushing the limits of spindle-based storage. Western Digital showed their hand early on in the game by introducing the Caviar Green 3TB .

The Barracuda XT is a 7200rpm 3.5-inch desktop drive featuring 2TB of storage capacity and a fast Serial ATA (SATA) 6Gb/second interface.