• Seagate Barracuda LP 2 TB: Power Saving Drive

    Seagate Barracuda LP 2 TB: Power Saving Drive

    Jayesh Limaye, Aug 03, 2009 1336 hrs IST

    This energy-efficient drive boasts of 44% power saving

    Silent, cool, energy-efficient

    Very expensive, not very fast

    Check specifications
    Write Review
    Expert Rating :
    Rating
    mail share

Expert Review

  Previous   next

 



Features



This drive boasts of a huge 2 TB capacity. For a home user, this should be enough to dump most of your games, movies, songs and data on it. It features the perpendicular magnetic recording technology that enables better areal density in this drive. The huge 32 MB buffer means an uninterrupted data transfer, and the rather unconventional 5,900 RPM should provide a performance somewhere in between the conventional 5,400 RPM and 7,200 RPM hard drives.







The drive looks like any other internal hard drive from Seagate. If you look at the right side of the SATA connector, you will notice that there is a jumper setting present to let you set the drive to the older SATA-I mode for backward compatibility with older motherboards that do not support SATA-II. The drive doesn't come with a jumper, but it is not difficult to get one. Without the jumper put in, the drive operates in the SATA-II mode.






Only a small part of the drive electronics is exposed from below


The areal density of this four-platter drive is 500 MB per platter. This should therefore sport better access times as well as an improved transfer speeds.

Seagate claims that this drive consumes less than 5.5 (5) W during idle, which is less power as compared to its predecessors, thus enabling system integrators to build lower powered systems. The drive also features Adaptive Fly Height that maintains the distance of the head from the platter, resulting in consistent read/write performance. To maintain a silent operation, the drive features motor with Seagate SoftSonic technology, which reduces noise.
 
Let's move to the performance of the drive.

Follow Techtree on Twitter

  Previous   next

Do you agree with this Review?
YesNo

Up

1

Related Links
Seagate ST3320620AS 320GB Hard Disk
Buffalo Brings MiniStation Lite Drives to India
Which is the Best HD Media Player?
Tag keywords
Seagate Barracuda LP 2 TB Power Saving Drive desktop drive Seagate Western Digital



Opinion Poll