Date 2003-10-24
Provider: Seagate
Author: BigMan
Editor: Princess Ammie
Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 IDE and SATA
It's harddrive review time here at rbmods tonite. We have some sweet drives from Seagate called Barracuda 7200.7. Also we have one IDE and one SATA; both which are
on 160 gig that will be compared to each other. And we also have an older 20 gig drive to show the difference in older and newer drives. We have some sweet benchmarking ahead
with Sisoft Sandra, Pcmark, Hdtach etc etc so stay tuned so you can see how fast the SATA drives really are :)
About Seagate:
When Seagate was founded in 1979, it was the first company to build 5.25-inch hard disc drives specifically for the PC. And while it may have seemed like a minor milestone at the time, in reality the introduction of Seagate's hard disc drives helped fuel the PC revolution, and the world has never been the same. Suddenly, it was possible to quickly and easily store and access data like never before, giving people access to unprecedented amounts of information and eventually giving rise to developments like the Internet. The entire computing landscape changed dramatically and evolved to a point today where computing and digital information have become part of our everyday lives. For 24 years Seagate has been developing the technology and manufacturing the products that helped make it all happen.
Specifications IDE drive:
Model Number:ST3160021A
Capacity:160 GB
Speed:7200 rpm
Seek time:8.5 ms avg
Interface:Ultra ATA/100
Features IDE drive:
7,200 RPM desktop performance
Fast performance
350 Gs non-op shock
Protection against handling damage
3D Defense System
Protection against handling damage and data loss
Specifications SATA drive:
Model Number:ST3160023AS
Capacity:160 GB
Speed:7200 rpm
Seek time:8.5 ms avg
Interface:Serial ATA
Features SATA drive:
350 Gs non-op shock
Protection against handling damage
3D Defense System
Protection against handling damage and data loss
7,200 RPM desktop performance and 8MB cache; SATA interface
Fast performance
The product:
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The harddrives are probably the the most fragile parts you can have in a computer so during the shipping it's very important that they are very well packed. These Seagate drives were very well packed
when they arrived and I doubt they could be much better packed than this. We got one SATA and one IDE drive both on 160 GB each so this will be very interesting to see which drive is faster.
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Some closeups on the IDE drive.
Capacity:160 GB
Speed:7200 rpm
Seek time:8.5 ms avg
Interface:Ultra ATA/100
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And finally some closeups on the SATA drive. Remember to check that you have SATA connectors on your motherboard before buying one of these.
Capacity:160 GB
Speed:7200 rpm
Seek time:8.5 ms avg
Interface:Serial ATA
It's time to go for some testing now so just click on the link below this and you will get to some intense testing on these two drives and we are going to see which of them is really faster.
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