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The Barracuda LP is the first internal hard disk from Seagate that we've seen that is supposed to be more eco-friendly than other disks. It has a rather unusual spindle speed of 5,900rpm, instead of the more common 5,400rpm or 7,200rpm speed. This spin...
The Barracuda LP's high price and disappointing performance means we can't recommend it...
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Product Code: ST32000542AS The Seagate Barracuda LP 2TB is a low-power, two terabyte hard drive, meant to conserve power. The Seagate Barracuda LP 2TB spins at a possibly unique speed of 5900 rotations per minute, as against prevailing speeds of spi...
Those who want to say “I have a multi-Terabyte hard disk” would be quite pleased with the Seagate Barracuda LP 2TB drive. A single HDD with such high densities is also useful for those building themselves a HTPC/NAS box. It sips less power tha...
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Western Digital’s Caviar Green arrived earlier this year, the first drive to hit the coveted 2 TB capacity point. The unit was recently re-validated and is now available under the RAID Edition brand (RE4) for business applications. Samsung sent us its...
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The Barracuda LP (ST32000542AS) is the first internal hard drive from Seagate to store two terabytes of data; 2TB is currently the maximum capacity of a single 3.5in SATA 2 drive. The Seagate Barracuda LP also manages to cut down on energy consumption compared to conventional 7200rpm hard drives while retaining reasonable performance. The Barracuda LP 2TB internal hard drive features four platters of 500GB each and has 32MB of cache. The drive spins at 5900rpm, an unconventional figure that sit...
Fast, consumes less energy than most conventional internal hard drives...
Not as energy efficient as the Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB...
Seagate’s largest capacity internal hard drive has decent transfer speeds and good power efficiency. Though WD’s Caviar Green is more energy efficient, Seagate’s Barracuda LP is a great option for speed-critical tasks...
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digitalversus.com Updated: 2013-09-10 01:07:57
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This drive is available in three versions, 1 TB (ST31000520AS), 1.5 TB (ST31500542AS) and 2 TB (ST32000541AS). Apart from the variations in capacity, the three models are identical and share the same rotation speed (5900 rpm), the same cache (32 MB) an...
Excellent performance (for the budget drive category), Allround performance, Good storage capacity / cost ratio, Low noise levels...
No real gain in access times in spite of the 5900 rpm rotation speed, Performance a good bit down on the best hard drives (but this was expected)...
An excellent budget drive with big storage capacity An ideal companion for NAS', film enthusiasts and budget computers...
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pcworld.in Updated: 2016-12-29 06:13:06
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This Seagate 2 TeraByte drive is a low-power drive, meant to conserve power. So it spins at a curiously unique speed of 5900 rotations per minute, as against prevailing speeds of spinning at 5400 and 7200 RPM, and has a 32 MB buffer. It is a cousin of...
Less power usage...
Buffer is only 32MB...
Those who want to say “I have a multi-Terabyte hard disk” would be quite pleased with this drive. A single HDD with such high densities is also useful for those building themselves a HTPC/NAS box. It sips less power than normal 7200RPM drives, without...
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pcquest.com Updated: 2016-12-29 06:13:06
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PrintCommentEmailDiggDel.icio.usRedditTwitterWe have seen most of the prominent hard-drive manufacturers coming out with drives that are environment friendly accompanied by the tag 'Green.' Not being left out of the bandwagon, Seagate has introduced e...
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techtree.com Updated: 2016-12-29 06:13:06
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Reducing energy consumption has been gaining increasing importance and hard drive manufacturers, who had primarily been focusing on performance, have finally started manufacturing drives with power saving features. After Western Digital, now it is Seag...
Silent, cool, energy-efficient...
Very expensive, not very fast...
Reducing energy consumption has been gaining increasing importance and hard drive manufacturers, who had primarily been focusing on performance, have finally started manufacturing drives with power saving features. After Western Digital, now it is Seag...
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