Barracuda® LP hard drive from Seagate® allow you to do more with less delivering the absolute best combination of power savings and performance in the industry. While other hard drive have labels that include words like "green" or "eco", Barracuda LP actually delivers on the low power promise. With power consumption levels up to 40% lower than standard desktop alternatives and best in class green performance, Barracuda LP really is the low power hard drive that won't slow you down.
Product Features :
- 5,900 RPM Spin Speed, 32 MB Cache Buffer, SATA 3Gb/s interface, 2 TB Capacity
- Super-low power consumption reduces power costs over the life of the system up to 50% over those of standard desktop drives
- Leading performance in the low power category
- Cool drives provide long-lasting benefits to the PC or external drive, reducing some component and maintenance costs.
- Ships in Certified Frustration-Free Packaging
Technical Details :
Review By Ultrabike ( Irvine, CA ) :
I have 6 2TB Seagate LP 5900 rpm drives in my readyNAS Pro, and so far so good. Four of them I bought about a year ago (Frys). Two of them I bought on a sale from Microcenter recently. Heat: I had a Hitachi 2TB 7200 rpm drive that was always 45 degrees when in operation. The Seagates were 39 degrees on the average.
Noise: I could hear my Hitachi clicking and trashing all the way from my living room to my dining room. Not so with my Seagates. When the plates started to spin I could hear the Hitachi do all kinds of noises as well. This was true when the Hitachi was in the NAS and when it was in it's own usb enclosure. When I removed the Hitachi from the RAID (after it failed) and added more Seagates, the noise issue was gone.
Reliability: My single Hitachi died, my 4 almost same age Seagates are cruising, now what are the chances of that happening.In my experience, the Seagates are cool and so my NAS doesn't have to spin the fans too much, making the whole system silent. They are also relatively inexpensive, and somewhat power efficient. I do not need the hard drive speed in my NAS.
However, if you are a gamer and plan to install a hard drive in your custom gaming PC, I can understand if 5900 rpm 3Gbs 32M cache is not going to cut it, and may be better off looking for something else that properly exploits the features of your motherboard.
I was worried about buying these drives back when I purchased them @ Frys given the problems that their previous 1.5TB line had. But so far these hard drives have not failed me.
Review by Westlamichael ( Santa Monica, CA, USA ) :
I have had two of these hard drive operating continuously in a ReadyNAS storage device for the past three months and have just added a third. I have not experienced any of the failures or other problems that anybody here has described. All three disks, both the initial two and the third one that arrived more recently were well packaged in appropriate shock-insulating supports as well as in the manufacturer's anti-static foil bags. As expected, no instructions or other hardware were included which was not a problem given the intended use.
These drives are not quite as quick as faster enterprise-level drives I've used, but quite adequate for my needs especially when used in an environment where network performance is probably the bottleneck rather than drive performance. Noise was a bit greater than I might have expected and temperatures were quite good. Compared to smaller Pipeline HD drives they replaced, these are faster, cooler but significantly noisier and I would not recommend them for a DVR or any other application where quiet operation is important.
On a lark, I did try using one in a Netgear media player but got inconsistent results, apparently due to the fact that the startup time was too long. On the whole, I think the Barracuda LPs are an adequate lower-power alternative to enterprise drives in settings where maximum performance and minimum noise are not important criteria. Most likely will add a fourth to this array in the near future.
