Seagate 120GB SATA drives

[Ennia]

What's the difference between the Barracuda Serial ATA V drive (ST3120023AS) and the Barracuda 7200.7 SATA (ST3120026AS) drives?

 

[SilentZero]

Besides ones a 160GB and the others a 120GB?

 

[vetteguy]

The 7200.7 is a slightly newer revision, I believe. I have one and it is a very nice drive.

 

[Conor026]

The 7200.7 is slighty faster with a seek time of 8.5ms.
The Serial ATA V is slighty slower with a seek time of 9ms but has a couple more data protection features.
The rest of the specs are the same

 

[mrgoblin]

One will work with pci express and one will not.

 

[Dug]

Head to head comparison

Look at the speed difference.
BTW get the 7200.7
I've tried both and there is a noticable difference.

 

[Zuluwarrior]

interesting.

on seagates website, they make one
think that the V has fdb motor when the
other doesn't list that it does, but
on the pdf data sheet, it shows both have
the same sound characteristics....

only real difference you can see in specs
is one has one platter with 2 heads and
the V has two
with three heads

single platter could lead to better seek times/
overall throughput etc.....I guess.....

btw:

the non V version of the drive is available
at best buy today for 59 bucks after rebate

now my decision just got a LOT easier

 

[vailr]

Originally posted by: Zuluwarrior[/i

btw:

the non V version of the drive is available
at best buy today for 59 bucks after rebate

now my decision just got a LOT easier

The $59 BestBuy Seagate SATA drive referred to above is the 80 GB, not the 120 GB drive.

 

[Sunner]

The 7200.7 is the next gex after the V.
The V would be 7200.6 going by Seagate's new naming scheme(7200 siginifies the RPM, 7 the generation, a Cheetah 15K.3 is a 3'rd Gen 15.000 RPM drive).

I'd get the 7200.7, it's quite a bit faster.

 

[Dug]

Originally posted by: Zuluwarrior
interesting.

single platter could lead to better seek times/
overall throughput etc.....I guess.....

btw:

the non V version of the drive is available
at best buy today for 59 bucks after rebate

now my decision just got a LOT easier

At that price get two and put em in raid.