Seagate Barracuda ES.2 750GB Hard Drive

  The Seagate Barracuda ES.2 750GB hard drive is for the most part physically the same as the Barracuda 7200.10 (Desktop Version) with a modifications. With the Barracuda ES.2 drive being anenterprise class drive, it’s likely to be packed in a server rack with multiple drives. Doing so does increases its chances of having a decrease in performance due to the vibrations that the drives create during normal spinning and seek operations. To help protect against this Seagate has added sensors that detect the rotational vibrations and adjusts the drive head to improve its performance. This allows the ES to handle rotational vibrations of up to 12.5 rad/second² with a profile of 20~800Hz, while the Barracuda 7200.10 can only tolerate 5.5 rad/second² with a profile of 10~300Hz. Keep in mind that this does come at an inflated cost. The drive we tested was a recertified drive supplied by our good friends at Geeks.com and goes for $54.99.

  Although the Seagate Barracuda ES.2 750GB drive did show to come in behind the Hitachi 500GB drive in several of the tests, I am still very pleased with the performance of the drive. In the real world while doing the normal everyday work on the test rig, I was unable to tell which drive was being used even when compared with a much slower (older) WD drive. The speeds that the average user is going to see will most likely not even be noticeable.