Seagate Barracuda 3 TB Hard Drive Review @ Hardware Secrets

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"Most enthusiasts will favor SSDs for their main boot drive rather than a mechanical hard drive thanks to the vast performance benefits available. However, there is still a large market for high performance mechanical drives which offer a much larger capacity for storage of large files. Today we are going to look at the latest Barracuda hard drive from Seagate, which offers no less than 3 TB of storage space."

Seagate Barracuda 3 TB Hard Drive Review | Hardware Secrets

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I have one of the same new Seagate Barracuda's - but the 2 TB version. It comes with SATA 3 and the same 64 MB cache which makes for some SSD like "burst" performance.

Very impressive for an HDD.

Check out the Burst rate on this Bench I took, which looks too good to be true.: