Seagate Barracuda Noise Machine

Monday, December 20th, 2004 at 1453

A word of warning.
Never, ever buy a Seagate Barracuda 7 SATA drive. Ignore the reviews you have read. Ignore their marketting bulldust. This drive sounds like a Van De Graaf when it’s accessing, and has a bloody annoying “Self diagnostic” whine 90% of the time it’s idle.
I don’t care about its performance (Which is behind competitiors), the noise for this supposedly “Silent Drive” is absurd.

I have a Seagate Barracuda 5 now as my main system drive, it never makes a sound. So much for progress, I guess new does not always mean better.

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3 Comment for “Seagate Barracuda Noise Machine”

Glenny Said this on December 26th, 2004 at 1904
yarr!
Yeah, new doesn’t mean better…. same as with XP. Thoroughly NOT impressed. Give me Win 2K over Win XP any day.
And hey, two days to go til the folks get there! Freaky!
zimmer Said this on December 31st, 2004 at 2306
Only a week until I get to meet them Glenny, now that ‘s a scarey thought..
I hope you didn’t throw a wild New year party in their absence, still, you have a week or two to get the carpets cleaned and the tinnies off the ceiling before they get back
Out of the Blue » Blog Archive » The “silent” Seagate Barracuda Said this on January 7th, 2005 at 0921
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