Seagate Barracuda 7200.8

Seagate has recently launched their new harddrives series: 7200.8. The new generation uses the SATA-interface and is available at 80 GB, 120 GB, 160 GB, 200 GB, 300 GB and 400 GB. They also support NCQ and 8 MB or 16 MB cache.

According to Seagate the new series is a bit louder then the last but instead faster. GamePC tests the new Seagate 7200.8 300GB against another of todays fast drives, Maxtor DiamondMax 10 300GB. As a a reference they use a Raptor 74GB. Even though none of the 7200RPM drives manage to keep up with the Raptor the struggle between is very even.

“Today at GamePC, we’ll be looking at the two most prominent NCQ-enabled hard drives on the market today, Maxtor’s DiamondMax 10 and Seagate’s Barracuda 7200.8 on both Intel’s 925XE and nVidia’s nForce4 SLI NCQ-enabled chipsets. This will not only show us which drive is the faster of the two, but which NCQ-enabled SATA controller is the most efficient for running these drives.“

Read the entire review at GamePC