The Terabyte Battle

Features
By Patrick Schmid
published

Application Benchmarks

Power Consumption

The power consumption measurements are slightly different from what we found in our review on the Western Digital Caviar GP, because one of the ampere meter's output experienced distorted results due to a low battery. The Caviar GP by Western Digital clearly is the most energy-efficient drive. Seagate's new Barracuda 7200.11 is in the middle, but its idle power requirement isn't far from what the Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 consumes.

Patrick Schmid
2 Comments Comment from the forums
  • andy_newton
    The Barracuda gets bricked after 6 months of use. While Seagate is kind enough to offer a free recovery, I lost 3 weeks of my time waiting. Upon receiving its unbricked with new firmware, the performance has now become terribly slow. It is very much different from the last moments before it got bricked.

    I contacted the customer service again and they give me a B.S. regarding this particular hard drive is not suitable foe use as external Drive.

    I am both terribly surprised and disappointed that tomshardware did not amend any article regarding its performance (post recovery), since those performance charts with its defective firmware should be invalid.

    Instead, Tomshardware continues to praise this hard drive and claims that in toms lab the bricking can not be repeated.

    I am wondering how much money that seagate pays toms to shut up and not to publish any honest review regarding this other affected hard drives.

    Or is it just me (again) waking up in a parallel universe where Seagate has never built any drives with defective firmware.

    -ND
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  • flagoman
    mmm, you are out of place on your comments, here, couse i dont think that toms would be able to test any hardware for 6 months or until it fails. imagine how late every review would be delayed, its ridiculous,what you are asking what are you six years old??? shezzz... And the company offer you a recovery of the info of your hdd,and actually i found that a great plus, Seagate. but you should had take your info out, and buy a new one.
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