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Seagate Barracuda XT 2TB Review – What Makes It The Best 2TB Internal Hard Drive?

If you’re looking for the best 2TB internal hard drive, the Seagate Barracuda XT 2TB is worth to consider. This hard drive is almost the same as his big brother 3TB version but less the price. Every enthusiast is always on the look for the fastest hard drive to add up to their PC rig. SSD are gaining its popularity nowadays but, the price points for these drives are somewhat hard to reach for many of us and yet it offers a limited disk space. Mechanical hard drive is still the best choice if the price and capacity is what we’re after for.

What Makes The Seagate Barracuda XT 2TB Fast?

The Seagate Barracuda XT 2TB uses a SATA 6GB/s, today’s fastest interface, it doubles the bandwidth to maximize its data transfer without slowing compare to SATA 3GB/s only. Various tests shows that, using a SATA 6GB/s with the Barracuda XT 2TB interface adds more speed in read performance, but not much in write. Although it doesn’t shows an impressive results in write, the read time really counts.

The disk spins at fast paced of 7,200rpm for faster seek time. In addition to that, a 64MB cache memory is provided to store more data which is most frequently accessed to immediately available in no time. This 2TB drive uses 4 disk platters in 3.5inch form factor, making it 500GB each and 8 read/write heads.

Specs

Spindle Speed (RPM) – 7200

Interface – SATA III

Cache – 64MB

Max Sustained Data Rate – 138MB/s

Average Latency – 4.16 ms

Random read seek time – 8.5ms

Random write seek time – 9.5ms

I/O data transfer rate – 600MB/s

Heads/Disks – 10/5

Bytes per Sector – 512

Load/Unload Cycles 300K

Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) – 0.34%

Mean Time Between Failures (hours) – 750,000

Startup Current +12 Peak (A, ±10%) – 2.8A

Operating Average – 9.23W

Idle – 6.39W

Acoustics (Idle Volume) – 28 dB

Acoustics (Seek Volume) – 32 dB

Disk Size – 3.5 inch

Seagate puts every great feature in Barracuda XT 2TB to create such fast drive at the same time huge capacity. A 7,200rpm speed, 64MB buffer size and the latest SATA 6GB/s interface equals a quick hard drive. This drive shows much improvement compare with the previous 7200.11 series version. This makes the Seagate Barracuda XT 2TB an ideal as your boot drive at the same time data storage.

Compare with the Western Digital 2TB Black, the Seagate Barracuda XT 2TB is a bit slower. These two giants are battling for the long time and on top of it when it comes to speed. Admittedly, Western Digital 2TB rules this time but, the Seagate Barracuda XT 2TB is also a great contender to be considered. If you’re a Seagate fans, you can’t go wrong with this drive it’s a solid choice.

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