With SSDs making inroads into territory previously occupied by standard hard drives, we've seen a renaissance of sorts as some manufacturers begin pushing the limits of spindle-based storage. Western Digital showed their hand early on in the game by introducing the Caviar Green 3TB .

Back on March 2011, Seagate debuted their original Barracuda XT 3TB hard drive , model ST33000651AS, which used five platters to supply 3000 gigabytes of capacity over a SATA 6Gb/s interface.

Very good 162 MB/s read bandwidth with ATTO Benchmark; 3rd-generation SATA 6Gb/s compliant controller; Massive 3-Terabyte storage capacity on three platters; Outstanding total-package value; 64MB Cache buffer improves burst transactions; Low-power standby conserves energy; 2-Year Seagate product...

2.1TB Barrier not removed via native hardware instruction on older O/S's; Previous Barracuda XT series offered 5-year warranty

Platter density has been the crutch of hard drive makers in recent history. Increasing spindle speeds can reduce random access latency, but at the expense of cost and thermals. Improvements in random access performance via increasing spindle speed pale in comparison to what is possible with solid...

Let's take a look at the latest 3 TB hard drive from Seagate, the Barracuda 3 TB, and see how it performs when we put it through its paces.

The price was right and it works great. I copied 1.5TB between this drive and a comparable Seagate 3TB model. I reached continous write speeds of up tp 200MBs. By the time the drive was half full, the speed was down to 150-160 continous.

None so far

Very good drive and has plenty of space!

I bought this hard drive in january.have been very pleased with performance and price all in all an excellent deal all round.delivery was only 3 days on cheap post aswell

i liked the price was the cheapest 2TB HD i found at the time; the performance also very good i would recommend this product to anybody

nothing bad to say about this product

I have 4 of them spinning 24/7 in my server in RAID 10 since November last year and they have been rock solid. I also have 4 * 2TB Seagate drive and same thing, no problems. Seagate released these drives before they released their NAS compatible drives in order to compete with WD Red drives but...

Lot of space (2.7TB after format!); speedy (7200rpm); SATA III; upgradable firmware; good balance of speed/latency; perfect for server (RAID) or desktop application; run cool

MTBF is lower than most Enterprise class drive or NAS drive; warranty is 2 years

I bought one and it has been shipped back, then the replacement was bad. My hard drive so far the first 30 days has spent more time with USPS than at my house. Look for another brand.

This is NOT a 2.5" drive - it's 3.5". Don't buy from Scan either because it will be your fault that you came from here.

3.5 inch