Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB SATA300

Overview

TechSpot Metascore

Based on 8 expert reviews

Excellent:

3
Good:

3
Average:

2
Bad:

0

Pros:

Good performance for a low power drive.
Priced well.
Widely available.

Cons:

SATA 6Gb/s support is still a gimmick.
Slow rotational speed.

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Last revision on January 11, 2013

Reviewers Liked

Good performance for a low power drive
Priced well
Widely available
High capacity
Supports 6-Gbps SATA
Great upgrade drive
4K sector standard
64MB cache

Reviewers Didn't Like

SATA 6Gb/s support is still a gimmick
Slow rotational speed
Competing drive costs less

Expert reviews and ratings

Meant to be a low-power drive, the Seagate Barracuda Green 2 TB drive does not compromise on performance. Its price just might make this buying this drive a real steal, too....

By PCWorld India on July 20, 2011

With exponentially increasing electricity bills continuing to cause depression among IT managers and SOHO owners across the land, the rush for power-saving computing is well and truly on. Hard drive manufacturers are getting in on the act, with a...

By APC Magazine on March 19, 2011

3.50 may not always get a lot of respect in the computer industry, but few other products have experienced more exciting price-performance movement across their lifetimes. Hard drives capable of carrying multiple terabytes of data are becoming...

By TechReviewSource on March 18, 2011

Seagate's new 2TB version of its Barracuda Green hard drive offers lots of low-power storage and support for 6-Gbps SATA, but you'll have to pay for the privileges. Buy it...

By PC Mag on March 17, 2011

It is a bit hard to image that computers make mistakes, but it does quite often, though it goes unseen. Hard disks, for example, have 1 error per every thousand bits. Imagine that the part of a system with the most valuable information contains data...

By Bjorn3D on February 03, 2011

The Barracuda Green is a great drive it features 6Gb/Sec interface, 4K sector formatting and a large 64MB cache. These drives are great for your storage needs. Pair these drives with a super fast SSD for your operating system and you're good to...

By Club Overclocker on January 01, 2005

Unfortunately there's no such thing as the perfect hard drive and you'll have to choose your drive according to your priorities. If you’re looking for performance, for a model that will also be serving as a primary drive for example, you’ll want...

By BeHardware on August 30, 2011

We were really impressed by the Barracuda Green 2 TB. It achieved practically the same performance level of the Barracuda XT 2 TB, while costing half as much. Also, it was 15% faster than its predecessor, the Barracuda LP 2 TB. Seagate is definitely...

By Hardware Secrets on May 27, 2011

Although this drive may not be the fastest of the bunch, it is more certainly the best bang for your buck out of the drives we've tested so far. We were fairly surprised with some of the performance that this drive was capable ofdelivering but were...

By Bright Side of News on April 10, 2011

The Barracuda Green performed well, but is not a barn burner in light of higher-end 7200 RPM drives. After several benchmarks, it's clear that the drive performs step slower than the two 7200 RPM models we compared it to, the Barracuda XT and...

By HotHardware on February 07, 2011

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