Conclusion

With the Barracuda 7200.11 1.5 TB Seagate presents a hard disk with a enormous capacity which is realised by packing four 375 GByte platter into one case. The throughput is also astonishing: 110 MByte/s when the drive does sequential reading operations with 256 KByte blocks. Altough this number doenst match 120 MByte/s sustained read and write performance it is still a very good value. As usual with mechanical hard drives the performance decreases with smaller block sizes. So one can see pretty poor performance when the block size is 32 KByte or smaller and random reads and writes are performed. But compared to the other drives the Barracuda still reaches good values.

When operating the Barracuda 7200.11 1.5 TB is very quiet. Even when drive reads or writes data one nearly can't hear it. So the claimed acoustic pressure of 27 dB respectively 29 dB won't be crossed. The maximal power consumtion of 12 Watts under load and 8 Watts in idle are also good values.

The Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5 TB is a solid product and we can recommend it as a data gatherer, as a fundament of a game PC or for a worstation.

Soon one will be able to buy the Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5 TB at PCP for about CHF 260.-

Authors: m.buechel@ocaholic.ch and m.seiler@ocaholic.ch