It is a model ST3000DM001 of a capacity of 3 TB with interface SATA 6.0 Gb / s, compatible with older SATA 1.5 Gb / s and 3 Gb / s. The disk has only three plates, supported by six heads. New 1 TB plates used for the production of the Barracuda 7200.14 is extremely densely written.

At one inch of plate was able to accommodate 340 000 75-nanometer tracks. To gain more space also introduced advanced formatting. Sectors of new disks are formatted to the size of 4 KB. Plates are working at 7200 rev / min. The disk comes with a big 64-megabytes buffer of cache, that optimizes performance. From the declared three terabytes, after formatting the user gets 2794 GB of space. Though it is nothing new, but "loss" of more than 200 GB is painful.

The performance of Barracuda 7200.14 is high. The data carrier reaches the sensational data transfer rate. Average transfer speed when reading and writing was 157 MB / s. In the application HD Tune 4.60 hard drive reached on average 158 and 154 MB / s when reading and writing. This is the highest average transfer rate to date, reached by the magnetic drive.

The maximum data transfer rate ATTO reached level 144 and 145 MB / s Unfortunately, the measured time data access of the new Barracuda is not as impressive. During read it amounted to 16.1 ms and 14.6 ms during recording. This is the price for high density of packing data on the plates.

metal case of drive was 43 ° C which is normal. Noise level, which is measured in an anechoic chamber was not to large, but audible during write the data. When reading the value of the average was 34.7 dB (1.9 sone). The energy consumption of disk space is on a low level, needs an average of 5.7 W of energy.

The new Barracuda 7200.12 is a successful design. It offers high capacity and provides high speed data transfer. In addition, does not heat up excessively and consume little power. Weaker party to the Barracuda 7200.14 is the average access times. There is one more thing.

Since December 31, 2011 carrier of this Barracuda Series are covered by only one-year manufacturer's warranty, which means that the second year of warranty protection takes the vendor / distributor unit. So far, the manufacturer's website throughout the period of warranty (warranty was three or five years) was able to take advantage of warranty services without the store.

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