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Seagate Barracuda XT 2TB Sata 3.0 HDD

The first hard drive with the new bus standard

Leo Waldock

Wed 13 Jan 2010 // 08:02 UTC

File Transfer Test
2GB of Music Files

Seagate Barracuda XT

Time in Seconds (s)
Shorter bars are better

HDTach Results

Seagate Barracuda XT

Bandwidth in Megabytes per Second (MB/s)
Longer bars are better

CrystalDiskMark Results

Seagate Barracuda XT

Bandwidth in Megabytes per Second (MB/s)
Longer bars are better

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