Seagate Barracuda 3TB Hard Disk

Name: Seagate Barracuda 3TB
Brand: Seagate
SKU: ST3000DM001
Rating: 4.1 (120 reviews)

Seagate Barracuda 3TB 3.5" SATA 3 7200RPM NCQ 64MB Cache ST3000DM001

★★★★★

(120 reviews)

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Options (5)

	1TB $70.00
	4TB $84.99
	5TB $255.95
	6TB $240.51
	8TB $359.45

Barracuda hard drives from Seagate give you with the Power of One. One terabyte per disc technology. One drive platform for every capacity need and every desktop storage application. One hard drive qualification effort. One hard drive platform to choose from. One hard drive with trusted performance, reliability, and simplicity to deliver the lowest total cost of ownership.
You no longer need to choose between low power drives, mainstream drives, or performance drives. One hard drive with 7200RPM performance and capacity points from 250GB to 3TB makes it easier than ever to choose the right drive for any need.

Specifications Overview

Model	ST3000DM001
Release Date	November 2013 * First availability for purchase, it may not correspond to the actual market launch date.
Capacity	3000 GB
Cache	64MB
RPM	7200
Interface	SATA 6 Gb/s
Form Factor	3.5"

	Old Name	Current Name	Branding	Data Speed	Port
USB 2.0	USB 2.0	USB 2.0	Hi-Speed USB	480 Mbit/s	diverse
USB 3.0	USB 3.1 Gen 1	USB 3.2 Gen 1x1	SuperSpeed USB	5 Gbit/s	diverse
USB 3.1	USB 3.1 Gen 2	USB 3.2 Gen 2x1	SuperSpeed USB 10Gbps	10 Gbit/s	diverse
USB 3.2	USB 3.2 Gen 2x2	USB 4.0 Gen 2x2	USB4 20Gbps	20 Gbit/s	only USB-C
USB4	USB 4.0 Gen 3x2	USB4 1.0	USB4 40Gbps	40 Gbit/s	only USB-C
USB4v2	USB 4.0 Gen 4	USB4 2.0	USB4 80Gbps	80-120 Gbit/s	only USB-C

Pros

Reliability
Good performance

Cons

Seagate Barracuda 3TB Performance comparison with similar Hard Disk Drives

(Higher is better)

Seagate Barracuda 3TB Performance

Sequential read/write speed, Random 4K read/write speed

Western Digital Black 4TB WD4004FZWX (9th)		104%
Western Digital Black 6TB WD6001FZWX (11th)		103%
Seagate 6TB ST6000DM001 (12th)		102%
Seagate ST5000DM002 (12th)		102%
Seagate BarraCuda 2TB ST2000DM006 (12th)		102%
WD VelociRaptor 250GB WD2500HHTZ (15th)		101%
Western Digital Red 10TB NAS (15th)		101%
WD VelociRaptor 500GB WD5000HHTZ (15th)		101%
Western Digital Gold 4TB Enterprise (15th)		101%
Seagate IronWolf 4TB ST4000VN008 (15th)		101%
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (20th)		100%
Seagate SkyHawk 4TB ST4000VX007 (21st)		98%
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (21st)		98%
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (21st)		98%
Toshiba P300 2TB (21st)		98%
Toshiba X300 5TB (21st)		98%
Toshiba 2TB HDWD120XZSTA (21st)		98%
Western Digital Black 2TB WD2003FZEX (21st)		98%
Western Digital Gold 2TB Enterprise (21st)		98%
Seagate Barracuda ST2000DM008 2TB (29th)		97%
Toshiba X300 6TB (29th)		97%

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Seagate Barracuda 3TB Price/Performance Analysis

Sequential read/write speed, Random 4K read/write speed vs Price

Price-to-Performance Analysis:

Excellent value: 61.4% better price-to-performance ratio than average.
🏆 Best value in this analysis.

Description

3TB storage capacity with SATA 6Gb/s NCQ Interface
SATA 6Gb/s interface optimizes burst performance
Seagate AcuTrac servo technology delivers dependable performance, even with hard drive track widths of only 75 nanometers
Seagate OptiCache technology boosts overall performance by as much as 45% over the previous generation.
Best Fit Applications include: Desktop or all-in-one PCs, Home servers , PC-based game systems, Desktop RAID, Direct attached external storage devices (DAS), Network attached storage devices (NAS)