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Slow Drives, Actually
- Pros: Lots of space and they haven't died on me yet. That's about all I can say about them that's good, though.
- Cons: These are pretty slow drives. They are the slowest devices in my system and the biggest bottleneck. I regret buying a pair of these and would not buy these again, nor recommend them to anyone.
These rate at 5.8 on the Win 7 performance test. Everything else in my system is 7 or higher...easy to see what's holding it back the most.
- Other Thoughts: If you want space with very mediocre performance, and a lot of loud clicks that will make you think click of death, then these are for you! Seagate assured me a few times that these loud clicks are normal. These drives just basically suck. Spend some more money and buy some Raptors if you want performance.
I'm getting sick of these slow drives and have been seriously thinking about replacing at least my OS drive with a Raptor, which would probably be about 3 times faster than these non-performance drives. The best I can hope for is that they keep working as storage drives, anyway. I don't trust them, and I back up any important data I keep on them, daily.
I wouldn't...
- Pros: Price. 16Mb cache. That's about it.
- Cons: These drives are not fast. They are slower than average, (less than 50MB/s in pcpitstop, bottom 30% tested) my 500Gb caviar green 5400RPM drive rates higher than this.
My laptop scorpio black 320 rates higher than this drive( the scorpio is rated at a 5.9 in Win7, one of the fastest conmponents) , even though my desktop is a beast with a X4 940 @3.4 Ghz and 4 gigs ram.
On my gaming rig, this drive is the lowest rated component and I have regretted the decision to buy this drive ever since. These drives are notorious now for early failure, the 7200.11 drives are "steer clear" devices for most tech savvy folks.
Unfortunately, I don't have the money to buy new hard drives whenever I please. But I sure don't feel safe about my data.
- Other Thoughts: This drive makes no sense at all when you consider the 500Gb samsung F3 drives are better in just about every conceivable way. They are a few dollars more, but well worth it, in fact they are even worth waiting for the3 egg to get them back in stock!
In about a week I'm going to purchase a samsung for data and a ssd for boot. that's the configuration I would recommend going with now.
Going strong after 2 years
- Pros: Has yet to get a bad sector.
- Cons: A little loud for a hard drive
- Other Thoughts: Should have bought it from Newegg and saved some money. Not sure why but Linux reports that this drive is about 10~15 GB bigger than Windows, but I think that it is the way Windows partitions and formats the drive versus Linux.
| Model |
| Brand |
Seagate |
| Series |
Barracuda 7200.11 |
| Model |
ST3320613AS |
| Packaging |
Bare Drive |
| Performance |
| Interface |
SATA 3.0Gb/s |
| Capacity |
320GB |
| RPM |
7200 RPM |
| Cache |
16MB |
| Average Latency |
4.16ms |
| Physical Spec |
| Form Factor |
3.5" |
| Manufacturer Warranty |
| Parts |
3 years limited |
| Labor |
3 years limited |
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Reviewed By: SloppyGoat on 1/16/2010
Tech Level: high - Ownership: more than 1 year
