The Barracuda ES

Advantages: Large capacity, Very Fast transfer rate
Disadvantages: Internal setup may pose trouble for some

...I've been using the Barracuda 320GB Hard Drive for some months now, I bought it for the capacity, speed and new features aswell as many past experiences with seagate drives that have always been good, they may not come top in benchmark tests but there usually in the top five and are one of the most quiet. As with most drives, after formatting you lose some space, the 320GB ended up being about 298GB, but no complaints here 298 gigs is more space than I'll ever use. The "ES" models are the ones to buy if you want reliability there designed for 24/7 operation mainly used in businesses, the Barracuda ES monitors temperatures and shuffles I/O requests to allow the drive to cool if it gets too hot. Internal is cheaper than external and you save desktop space, plus some external drives require a separate power supply so you also save...

JGK555 22.02.2007 · Read review
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Review of Seagate Barracuda ES 320 GB

Barracuda 7200.11 AVOID at all costs

Advantages: low noise
Disadvantages: no reliability what so ever, will definitely break unless you update firmware

...The Seagate 7200.11 is probably is worst hard disk there is. I have only had it for 9 months and it's broken. I will keep myself to be subjective when writing this review though - so there's no need to worry! = the BASICS The Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 was released in 2008. It was the 11th generation of the Barracuda line of hard drives. It comes in 160Gb, 320Gb, 500Gb (mine), 640Gb, 750Gb, 1TB and 1.5TB. It runs on 3 disk platters and can be subjected to forces of 350Gs when not operating. =my EXPERIENCE The hard drive was working well, compared to my previous (Western Digital 250Gb) which at times doesn't work and clicks occasionally, displaying error 51 in Event Viewer. 9 months down the line of first buying it one day the computer does not boot up at all. Going into BIOS and the hard drive is not recognised! So I looked...

ecolier 01.11.2009 · Read review
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Review of Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 500 GB

Barracuda Enterprise-Server

Advantages: fast, quiet, five years warranty
Disadvantages: hot

...The Barracuda ES line is the higher-end (aka server line) series from Seagate, one of the big player in the storage business. It's designed for 24/7 operation and comes with five years warranty. This one is the SATA-II type which allows a maximum 3Gbps transfer rate. Some old motherboards can't accept SATA-II type of harddisk, so Seagate puts a jumper to "downgrade" the Barracuda ES to SATA-I specification (1.5 Mbps transfer rate). It has 16MB cache for maximum speed and reliability. Most hard disks come with 4-8MB of cache size. This one is very fast, reliable and impressive. I've been using it for almost 3 years, 6-12 hours a day and no single data corruption to date. It's relatively quiet but can be pretty hot when using continuously. Yes, I said hot, not warm. Sensor reading from the software "Everest" shows that...

newmachine 26.10.2008 · Read review
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Review of Seagate Barracuda ES 250 GB

Craft RX9 Barracuda

Advantages: Looks cool
Disadvantages: A little windy

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andrewj100 10.09.2001 · Read review
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Review of Craft RX9 Barracuda

Barracudas fly.

Advantages: Quality make. Cost.
Disadvantages: Slight noise.

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simcox1 18.07.2005 · Read review
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Review of Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 80 GB

Barracuda Divers - Goa

Advantages: A great dive school. Reasonable costs for diving
Disadvantages: Not first class visibility

...How We Got Into Diving. In Sept 2002 my husband and I had a " try dive " at the end of a holiday in Egypt and decided we wanted to complete our PADI Open Water Course during our next holiday in March 2004 which was already booked?..to Goa?.India. Where would I find the kind of dive school in INDIA with exceptional high standards and could handle teaching a forty something, dyslexic and somewhat nervous me! Choosing A Dive School. I had a look on the internet and found two dive schools in Goa. The one that caught my eye in particular was Barracuda Diving as the web site looked and they were also a PADI 5 star IDC centre which I knew was an excellent start.. I whizzed off a email explaining a bit about myself ,how much I wanted to complete a course, but also the fact of how nervous I was and also that I was dyslexic and found...

rosehall 22.02.2007 · Read review
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Seagate barracuda SATA 320gb hard drive review

Advantages: Fast, Value for Money, Quiet, 5yr warranty
Disadvantages: none that i know

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simpson123 17.12.2006 · Read review
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Review of Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320 GB

A thumbs up for the barracuda

Advantages: A good drive and reasonably priced
Disadvantages: Seagate

...Despite my previous negative comments on Seagate products, I must tell you about how good the Barracuda range has turned out to be. I own this drive. With its 40GB storage it is not the biggest on the market. But it does not claim to be. I have found huge disks to be unreliable anyway. No point in have 80gb disk space if a couple of those sectors become corrupt or damaged is there? at 7200rpm it is one of the fastest. Most are turning the wheel at between 5400-7200rpm so it sits nicely at the quickest spinning disk end. Data transfer rate is what we are bothered about. We need quick burst of data when loading a game or other system loading operations. This blasts across the cables at 100 mbs giving its name ATA 100. The slower 66 ATA range wont get your stuff up and running as quick as its 33% slower. As for its buffer, or its...

andycharger 07.01.2002 · Read review
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Review of Seagate Medalist Pro 9140 9.1 GB

A Thrilling Read From Front to Back.

Advantages: It really makes you want to keep reading
Disadvantages: As above!!

...go about the task of buying 2 Nuclear Submarines from Russia through the Chinese. They acquire the first one Barracuda 945 and set about completing their task. I?ll leave it there as that has only scratched the surface of the deep plot within the book. If you?ve read any of Patrick Robinson?s other books you will be familiar with the majority of characters in these books. If you haven?t let me give you a quick run down. Admiral Morgan is probably the best character in the book, he is the National Security Advisor but seems to have more clout than the President himself. Then you have George Morris, a member of the team in intelligence in Maryland he knows exactly how to deal with the admiral. Under them you have Lt Jimmy Ramshawe the main assistant to George Morris, he seems to have an uncanny knack of taking two apparently unrelated...

Andy.mack 15.07.2003 (11.01.2004) · Read review
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Review of Barracuda 945 - Patrick Robinson

Very quiet, fast HDD, Perpendicular recording

Advantages: Fast, new Perpendicular Technology, very quiet, fair price
Disadvantages: Not keen on cloning software available from Seagate

...The 7200.10 hard disk drives from Seagate are the first to use new Perpendicular Technology for recording data. This makes them, in theory, faster than other hard disk drives. This is because the drive head has less far to move in order to record/retrieve the same amount of data. I have recently purchased the 320GB ATA100 version and I do notice slightly higher speeds compared to my previous Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 80GB drive. Official reviews claim that the seek noise is higher with the 7200.10 than 7200.9, and higher than the majority of other leading drives. However, I cannot personally hear it seek at all, even when the drive is very busy. I do have a well insulated case but I am still able to hear the internal fans and another older hard disk I have. The reviews I've seen give very favourable figures for the spinning noise...

zedreview 02.03.2007 · Read review
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Review of Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320 GB