Seagate Barracuda ATA IV 80 GB

A very good product from a very good producer - Advantages: silencios, good price, it has 80Gb which are more that anofe - Disadvantages: -, -, -

Introduction ------------ In a computer one of the least interesting components has got to be the hard drive. With a graphics card it is easy to boast how good it is with programs such as 3dmark 2001 but allthough such tests do exist with hard disks they are rarely used or talked about. AS a result most people tend to buy hard drives only on grounds of size and price and also possibly the brand. The truth is however that although the hard disk is not the most glamerous of components it is one of the most important and without which you otherwise fast computer can run at a snails pace. Important Factors and Features ...  Read the complete review

The Seagate Barracuda series of Hard Disks have been going for quite some time now, but they keep reinventing the hardware behind the name to keep it up with the times. Recently I bought a new 80Gb disk, after realising that my 10Gb one was simply not big enough for everything I wanted to install. So off I trudged to the Novatech website, where I purchased the Seagate Barracuda 80Gb Snowman Series hard disk, for a very nice sum of £151 including delivery. I choose it because at the end of the day, I was fed up with slow, small disk drives, so was after the fastest available for the IDE/ATA interface. And this appeared to be it. It has a sizeable 2Mb ...  Read the complete review