Maximum PC: “Barracudas eat Caviar for breakfast”
Seagate’s Barracuda LP drive bested Western Digital’s Caviar Green drive in both power and performance in the new issue of Maximum PC magazine.
The results of the head-to-head tests of the two 2 TB low-power drives:
- Barracuda LP used less power than WD’s Green drive
- Barracuda LP performed 20% faster (sustained data rate) than WD’s Green drive
So why doesn’t Seagate call it the Seagate Green drive?
There’s more to being “green” than just using less power. Anyone can do that by slowing down a disk drive.
Seagate has applied its drive technology “smarts” to make drives more efficient, so that performance isn’t blindly sacrificed for energy savings. All Seagate drives benefit from this technology. In a way, you could say that all of Seagate’s disk drives are “green”.
The Barracuda LP is a poster child for this approach. It spins at 5900 rpm – 9% faster than any other low-power 3.5″ drive – while still handily besting WD’s power draw in Maximum PC’s head-to-head test.
It takes more than a name to make a drive green.
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