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Likewise, the I/O performance on small blocks seems very similar as well. The results from CDM generally show no significant differences between the two different cache versions. Similarly, I/O performance was consistent, with the caching showing a slight boost for writes in the extra tests. The profiles are not as clean as they could be, but the zones are clearly visible. The reason may be general drive-to-drive variations due to differences in platter-to-head matching resulting in fractionally lower densities.

Throughput averaged 45MB/s, which is less than the 2MB cache version of the drive.

Eventually, with a few attempts, it was possible to get it to run. The drive reports running a reasonable amount of hours, with the same firmware 3.06 as the other ST3120022A drive, but with 8MiB of cache rather than 2MiB.ĭespite the drive reporting itself to be in good condition, initial attempts at benchmarking were thwarted with a read error. Otherwise, compared with the other Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 drives, it is visually unremarkable. Visually similar to the 120GB model with 2MB cache, this version has a more matte cover despite also being made in Singapore. Unfortunately, as I discovered, many of the 7200.7 drives have a habit of growing bad sectors from time to time.

The Barracuda 7200.7 line comes in a variety of capacities and cache levels – a 40GB and 120GB version have already been catalogued, but there is also this 120GB version with a beefier cache.