The Bottom Line
Seagate was the first drive manufacturer to natively support Serial ATA and the Barracuda V is a fine drive that performs as well as high-end IDE drives.
Pros
- Native Serial ATA Support
- Performance Comparable to High End IDE Drives
Cons
- High Price Compared to IDE Drives
- No 4-Pin Adapter With Bare Drive
Description
- 120 GB Storage Capacity
- 7,200 rpm Rotational Speed
- 8 MB Cache
- 9 ms Average Seek
- Native Serial ATA Interface
- 1 Year Warranty
Guide Review - Seagate Baracuda V 120GB SATA Hard Drive
Seagate was the first company to release a Serial ATA based hard drive to the public market with its Barracuda V drive. The drive offers performance on par with high-end IDE hard drives but with the ease of the Serial ATA interface. Since it only uses the Serial ATA interfaces, its important to have a Serial ATA power adapter cable. This is not included with the bare drive but is with the retail kit. Of course Serial ATA drive technology is still fairly new to the market and so prices are higher than comparable IDE drives. Seagate is working on their second generation drive the Barracuda 7200.7 which should improve overall performance.
