Testseek.com have collected 16 expert reviews of the Seagate Barracuda ES.2 SATA300 ST3-NS Series and the average rating is 73%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Seagate Barracuda ES.2 SATA300 ST3-NS Series.
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The Seagate Barracuda ES.2 750GB hard drive is for the most part physically the same as the Barracuda 7200.10 (Desktop Version) with a modifications. With the Barracuda ES.2 drive being an enterprise class drive, it's likely to be packed in a server...
If I were on the market for hard drives right now and wanted a reliable drive to be uses in a RAID array or file server the ES.2 series drives would be a perfect choice. Of course there is a price premium to run the enterprise class hard drives; but co...
Abstract: Under multi-user loads, however, the story changes entirely. In the past, Seagate\'s ATA and SATA offerings have been middling performers with drives from firms such as Western Digital and the old Maxtor aggressively seizing the lead when it came to loads featuring significant amounts of concurrency.
The Seagate Barracuda ES.2 1TB drive generally performed well, with a few exceptions. The Barracuda ES.2s HD Tach, HD Tune, and most of the Sandra results were impressive in light of the competition. But the drives PCMark Vantage results and the Sa...
To say that the Barracuda ES.2s performance is disappointing would be an understatement. In fact, we were so surprised by the drives scores in some tests that we contacted Seagate to see what was up. Its been a couple of weeks since, and theyre sti...
1 Terabyte of storage, Low CPU utilization in benchmark, 32MB cache, Better cost/GB ratio than SCSI, 5 year warranty, 3.0 gigabits/sec I/O threshold, with the option to decrease to 1.5 gigabits/sec, Generation 2 Perpendicular Recording technology, Error C...
Price may be of concern to some general consumers
After reviewing the benchmarks you might think that in some areas the Seagate Barracuda 1TB ES.2 does not perform as well as its older counter part. Let us draw your attention to the fact that in all the primary benchmark results (i.e.; Sequential Rea...
Abstract: Seagate continues to break new ground in the enterprise and business markets with its latest Barracuda ES.2 drives which weigh in at up to 1-Terrabyte of capacity. While Hitachi was first this year with a 1TB drive to the desktop and retail side of thi...
Efficient power consumption, runs very quietly, relatively cool, optimised for 24/7 systems
It was sluggish in our file transfer tests The Final Word Always-on PCs, small business servers and home media centres will benefit from this drive as its very quiet and runs relatively cool. However, its single drive performance was sluggish in our t...
Always-on PCs, small business servers and home media centres will benefit from this drive as its very quiet and runs relatively cool. However, its single drive performance was sluggish in our tests.
Abstract: Hitachi started the terabyte drive ball rolling in August, but in the last month we’ve had drives from Western Digital and Seagate arrive. We’re very happy to see them all.Seagate has released two different terabyte drives under the one B...
