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Seagate ST3120023A (120 GB Barracuda) Reviews

Seagate’s 120 GB Barracuda hard disk supporting ATA V with a spindle speed of 7,200 rpm, has two platters of 60 GB each and four read/write heads, result-ing in very quick retrieval of data. It sports a stan-dard 2 MB buffer and uses Giant Magne-toResistive (GMR) recording heads, resulting in greater areal density, which makes larger disk sizes achiev-able. The drive was tested on a Pentium 4-based test bench, with a 2.8 GHz CPU, Intel it opened a 190 MB image file in 14 seconds, which high-lights the file transfer speed of the drive. The disk took 14.2 seconds to load a saved game in Return to Castle Wolfenstein. This is especially good news for impatient gamers. There real-ly aren’t any drawbacks to this drive, except for perhaps its price. If you do not need the maximum storage space that money can buy, but you D850 EMV2 motherboard with 256 MB RDRAM, and a GeForce4 Ti 4600 graphics accelerator. This drive gave us excellent results in the per-formance tests. It transferred assorted data of 1 GB in a mere 57 seconds. The SiSoft Sandra 2002 Pro bench-mark reported an average access time of 13.1 milliseconds, sequential read/write rates of 41/40 MBps, and random read/write speeds of 8/9 MBps, which is indeed very good. Photoshop 7.0 took a mere 12 seconds to load and do want all the speed you can get, then this is the drive for you. As far as storage goes, it sits smack in the middle of the gap between the low-end 40 to 80 GB dwarves and the top-end 160 to 200 GB giants.
SPECIFICATIONS:
ATA V support, 7,200 rpm, 120 GB, 2 MB buffer...

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