StorageReview reviews Seagate Barracuda ES.2 and Western Digital Caviar GP 1TB hard drives
Leveraging a unique five-platter design, Hitachi Global Storage managed to bring the formidable Deskstar 7K1000 to the market well before competing designs. For several months now, Hitachi's beast has combined the best capacity and performance one could get on the SATA interface. Now, however, competitors Seagate and Western Digital have commenced shipment of their first terabyte units... and each manufacturer's take is a bit different from that of Hitachi's.
The Barracuda ES.2 is the enterprise-grade version of Seagate's consumer-oriented Barracuda 7200.11 and the successor to the firm's 750-gigabyte Barracuda ES 750 (retrospectively the "ES.1"). With the luxury of a later introduction, the ES.2 manages its terabyte capacity utilizing just four 250-gigabyte platters as contrasted to the Deskstar 7K1000's five-disc design. Seagate specs the ES.2's seek time at 8.5 milliseconds...
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