3TB Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM SATA 3.5" Internal Hard Drive (ST3000DM001) $120 + Free Shipping

Noob question, this being 6GB/s, is it as fast as the SSD SATA 3 with 6GB/s? I know SSD is small in size n capacity, more efficient but more expensive. But i'm talking about speed wise.

ssd would whoop this, this is tempting though, im in need of a new internal storage drive, going to try to make myself wait for a better deal though

Quote from thatbb6 : Noob question, this being 6GB/s, is it as fast as the SSD SATA 3 with 6GB/s? I know SSD is small in size n capacity, more efficient but more expensive. But i'm talking about speed wise.

Here's a youtube video [youtube.com]comparing boot time of an OCZ Agility 3 to a Barracuda

Does anyone have 3 year warranty on hard drives anymore?

Anyone know of a price match somewhere?

Quote from thatbb6 : Noob question, this being 6GB/s, is it as fast as the SSD SATA 3 with 6GB/s? I know SSD is small in size n capacity, more efficient but more expensive. But i'm talking about speed wise.

It depends on what you mean by "fast". When you speak of maximum transfer rate, I'm sure this HDD is plenty fast, probably 160MB/s+. But that's probably only if you are loading large files. The point of SSD I would think is for faster access time. A hard drive will slow down considerably on loading a lot of small files. Plus if you are just copying files to or from the drive, you are going to be limited by the speed of the other source/destination anyway. If the function of the drive is to be a system drive with the OS or the main function is just to load/store lots of data into RAM for the OS or an application, I don't think you are going to beat the SSD. Although if you have a lot of RAM, I believe windows tries to use a lot of the extra RAM as a drive cache, so if you load a lot of the same data I think the hard drive will be comparable in actual application. Although in reality this discussion is probably pointless since for $120 one is a 3TB HDD, and the other is like a 128GB SSD, so clearly given the storage size difference and price/gb difference they are going to have different applications.

I've been using 3 of these drives for about a year now, and haven't had any issues. They're also pretty quick as far as mechanical drives go, as I recall I think the read/write transfer rates were both around 190 MB/s. I pulled all mine from 3Tb Seagate externals that I was lucky enough to get right after the Thailand Flood from staples (with $25off $75 coupons) for around $85 a piece. This is a pretty good "post Thailand flood" price for a 3tb drive.

does this have the head parking issue?

I just purchased this model at Office Max for the same $119 price. They actually matched staples $149 price and they had a 20% off coupon until Sunday..... I installed it and shows 2.7gb but using it as a storage device it works wonderful!!! Transfer rates are good and hopefully being a seagate it will last

Quote from thatbb6 : Noob question, this being 6GB/s, is it as fast as the SSD SATA 3 with 6GB/s? I know SSD is small in size n capacity, more efficient but more expensive. But i'm talking about speed wise.

The short answer is no. The long answer is that the 6Gbit/sec (not 6 Gbytes/sec) is the interface speed and has nothing to do with the speed of the drive, expect that the speed of a drive is limited to the top speed of the interface.0 This drive is much slower than an SSD in every way.

tempting!! dont know if I should jump now or wait for Black Friday !!!

Nice, gonna throw this in my main build and move the 1.5tb to the htpc. Thanks OP!

4 of theses would make a great nas.

Very tempted.