Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB - Any good?

danceMB · 19 Jun 2006 at 08:17

Was wondering what the drive owners thought of this cards speed & performance? I have 2 old drives and heard this was a good card, but I prefer real owners to speculation and graphs. Tempted to buy an enclosure for it, will have to be an imitation of the SilentMaxx due to OCuk selling out

Messiah Khan · 19 Jun 2006 at 09:51

I havent got one persoanlly, but from what ive heard and read, they are one of the best drives out there at the moment. The Raptors still beat them in terms of performance, but for value for money and as a general large drive, the 7200.10 is the best.

Phemo · 19 Jun 2006 at 10:30

Yeah, I have three of them and they're excellent drives. They're a nice price, quiet and very fast.

smids · 19 Jun 2006 at 10:54

I'm stunned. Not only is it a Seagate (5yr Warranty as standard, renowned for good reliability) but for me it is quiet, very fast (HDTach 67.4MB/s 12.9ms access time), at the forefront of technology with perpendcular recording, relatively inexpensive and I just run out of superlatives - I've had mine for about 6 days and I love it.

james.miller · 19 Jun 2006 at 10:59

its the best 320gb drive you can buy, bar none, with the longest warrenty as well.

I've said it before, right now the seagates are untouchable.

smids · 19 Jun 2006 at 11:07

james.miller said:
its the best 320gb drive you can buy, bar none, with the longest warrenty as well.

I've said it before, right now the seagates are untouchable.

'right now' - I think they've been unouchable longer and now they've reached a whole new plateau.

james.miller · 19 Jun 2006 at 11:12

i dont agree with that. The 7200.9's were nothing special, and often outperformed by the 8's from memory. I remember seeing a preview of perpendicular technology....it must have been a year back.....but it wasn't from samsung, it was hitachi.

'get perpendicular'. anybody remember this? http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/research/recording_head/pr/PerpendicularAnimation.html

Their drives are nowhere to be seen however lol

smids · 19 Jun 2006 at 11:16

Heh, I knew you'd disagree

. I never owned a .9 - instead I have a trust .7 and .8 and some even older like a 6GB momentus and 1GB drive (not even sure of the model) both of which are rock solid and never even thrown up a bad sector, even 10 years on.

james.miller · 19 Jun 2006 at 11:21

The 8's were great drives when they were release, i *believe (i might have timescales wrong here) that the 9's were released are the same time as the hitachi t7k250's. At that time the hitachi's were ruling the roost, which is why i went for the 250gb hitachi (still a great drive)

My next drive will alomst certainly be a seagate. I dont think there's ever been a time where one manufature has pulled of such a feat - the best warrenties and the best performance

smids · 19 Jun 2006 at 11:28

Your final statement is definitely true - I will concede to that. Raptors came closest but storage and price really put them out of the consumer market. They are the anomoly.

Still we are digressing

- the 320GB 7200.10 is THE best 300GB drive (although 320GB giving 298GB of usage) around bar none. I'm sure if the bigger 500GB and 750GB drives perform the same, well then, goodbye everyone else.

james.miller · 19 Jun 2006 at 11:31

they perform better

smids · 19 Jun 2006 at 11:33

james.miller said:
they perform better

I love the Hitachi animation - how funny was that. It's the first time I've seen that.

So it's errr, goodbye everyone else then. It was nice knowing you, thanks for dropping in, don't let the door hit you on the way out.

EDIT: Oh I geddit - and I thought you wanted the last word and were correcting me -

- call it uni finals exam result stress.

james.miller · 19 Jun 2006 at 11:40

you sure your ok mate? lol. you do sound a little stressed tbh

smids · 19 Jun 2006 at 11:51

Yeah, umm, results out today you see, I'm heading in to go find out - [insert expletive here], [oh and another one], [go on, treat yourself to a third], [and one for luck].

sorcerer · 19 Jun 2006 at 12:26

Yep, I have one execellent drive, I ran tests using Si Soft Sandra, and it said the only drives faster, where RAID setups. It was even faster than a standalone U320 SCSI drive.

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SpinyNorman · 19 Jun 2006 at 15:43

Thumbs up

I got one at the weekend & was very impressed. Fast & quiet. Don't forget to remove the jumper if you have SATAII to get 3gb/s as opposed to 1.5.

It came just wrapped in two jiffy bags plus the plastic manufacturers case which caused me a bit of buttock clenching. (oh how those cheeky posties like to play tennis with fragile stuff

) So I installed Seatools & did a full surface scan which returned no errors.

humax · 19 Jun 2006 at 18:42

yes there a great drive only second to the raptor

Phil2008 · 19 Jun 2006 at 19:10

When I can afford one, Im going to get a 400 or 500gb seagate and use my 200gb seagate externally as a backup drive

Participant · 19 Jun 2006 at 20:08

Raptors are faster!!!

Participant · 19 Jun 2006 at 20:09

Also do these seagates have 16Mb cache and support NCQ?