Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 400GB

Review @ AnandTech

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The 7200.8 as well as the 7200.7 did do well in our Real World Game Level Load Time tests with Doom 3 and Half-Life 2, loading Doom 3's caverns1 map in 32.394 seconds with the 7200.7 following closely, and loading Half-Life 2's d1_canals_01 map just inside the 16-second mark, much better than the DiamondMax and SpinPoint drives.

Native Command Queuing was the focus with Seagate's 7200.8 and we ran a few multitasking benchmarks to see how it performs against the others. We first ran the Multitasking Performance test in the Business Winstone 2004 suite and found that Maxtor's DiamondMax 10 NCQ drive came in at first place with an overall multitasking performance rating of 2.95. The Raptor followed, of course, most likely due to its Tagged Command Queuing feature. The Seagate came in at third in multitasking, which doesn't knock it out of the competition, but rather makes it a worthy competitor.

[...]Seagate has designed a great drive that has been proven to compete with the 10,000RPM Raptor and Maxtor's newest NCQ enabled drive with a 16MB buffer. Though it doesn't win all of the tests, it does give the other units a run for their money. Seagate also backs their drives with a 5-year warranty, which is the lengthiest in the hard drive industry.

Hitachi 7K400 vs. Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 @ GamePC

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While the Deskstar 7K400 has long been the only player in the 400 GB desktop hard drive market, Seagate’s Barracuda 7200.8 has, in one fell swoop, knocked Hitachi’s drive out of the top spot. Our tests have shown that the Barracuda 7200.8 has a better overall feature set, consumes less power, creates less heat, and runs faster in both disk read and write speeds. It’s a pretty clean sweep, as far as we can see. Granted, the Deskstar 7K400 has been out for over six months already, which some might say gives Seagate an advantage. Still, these are the only 400 GB drives out on the market today, and the Seagate is simply the better of the two.

[...]While the Barracuda 7200.8 still isn’t our top choice for raw performance in the 7,200 RPM hard drive sector, seeing their 400 GB drive in action puts the family in a much better light. The 7200.8’s deliver solid performance across the board, while at the same time boasting very good environmental aspects (heat/power/noise), and pricing is surprisingly reasonable given the huge capacity of the disk. When choosing a high-capacity SATA hard disk, the Barracuda 7200.8 would now be our recommendation.

Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 @ StorageReview

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Seagate's Barracuda 7200.8 combines the latest in areal density with the standard SATA form-factor and interface. Unfortunately, while the capacity is there, the performance is not. The 7200.8 lags significantly behind the latest offerings from Maxtor and Hitachi in both single-user and multi-user instances.

Some may point out that the 7200.8 supports SATA NCQ and that the drive's performance is not fully realized without mating it to an appropriate controller. When paired with a Promise FastTrak TX4200, Seagate's latest indeed exhibits some improvement in multi-user scenarios. For non-server use, however, it's a wash. The curious may peek at the differences in the SR Performance Database. We'll explore the issue more thoroughly in our upcoming fourth-generation testbed.

[...]In the end, those seeking quiet operation combined with Seagate's unique five-year warranty may be well served by the Barracuda 7200.8. Those seeking a better balance when it comes to performance, however, should look elsewhere.

hab die 250gb variante. wenn's nicht wer für server verwendet imho sinnlos. zumindest i weiss gar nimma was i noch auf mei platte schaufeln soll.

Interessant, dass die Reviews einander widersprechen - was soll man jetzt glauben?

also ich hab mir schon vor einiger Zeit eine 400er Seagate gekauft - allerdings PATA (so viel Unterschied wird da ja nicht sein)... in dem Größenbereich gibt es noch nicht allzuviel Alternativen und nachdem ich mit Seagate immer gut gefahren bin hat nichts dagegen gesprochen - bin sehr zufrieden mit der Platte und werde mir demnächst nich eine zulegen weil meine Platzansprüche stetig steigen (ich hätte jetzt schon gerne größere, die 400Gb hatte ich schnell voll)

naja, ungekühlt wird sie ganz schön heiss - verglichen mit WD (habe derzeit 5 Seagate und eine WD verbaut) ist noch ein ordentlicher Unterschied was die Hitzeentwicklung anbelangt... Gradangaben habe ich zwar keine aber Seagate waren schon immer etwas wärmer als andere Platten afair... Nachdem ich aktiv kühle (leise 120er) habe ich persönlich kein Problem damit

meine platten ham 36° un 37°, sin beide maxtor die wern imho eh net so heiß wie seagate...

temps sin ok oda?

alle meine 3 Seagates laufen mit 31°C gekühlt von einem 80er.

Sind 2x200er und a 120er. und imho bleiben die Kühler als die Maxtors, grad die Max9 waren ja imho nette heizkraftwerke

i hab da a 200er Seagate, a 120er Max9 und a GXP120 auch 120GB

da is die Seagate die kühlste, auch wenn der sensor der Maxtor was anderes sagt, täscuhen sich meien finger ned