Seagate Barracuda Green 2 TB Hard Disk Drive Review
The Barracuda Green 2 TB
Contents
The Barracuda Green 2 TB, as you can infer by its name, belongs to the “Green” hard drive family from Seagate, formerly known as the Barracuda LP. All major hard drive manufacturers have a “green” product line, with drives spinning at a lower speed in order to save energy. The Barracuda Green 2 TB spins at 5,900 rpm, while regular desktop drives spin at 7,200 rpm. Therefore, the drawback of saving energy is a possible drop in performance. On the other hand, the Barracuda Green 2 TB uses the SATA-600 interface, while most other “green” hard drives are still based on the old SATA-300 standard.
Figure 1: Seagate Barracuda Green 2 TB
Figure 2: Seagate Barracuda Green 2 TB
In the table below, you can see the drives we included in our comparison. We included a standard desktop model based on the SATA-600 interface, the Barracuda XT, and the old Barracuda LP, which is based on the SATA-300 interface and doesn’t feature the Advanced Format technology.
| Manufacturer | Model | Model # | Rotational Speed | Interface | Buffer | Capacity | Price |
| Seagate | Barracuda Green | ST2000DL003 | 5,900 rpm | SATA-600 | 64 MB | 2 TB | USD 80 |
| Seagate | Barracuda LP | ST32000542AS | 5,900 rpm | SATA-300 | 32 MB | 2 TB | NA |
| Seagate | Barracuda XT | ST32000641AS | 7,200 rpm | SATA-600 | 64 MB | 2 TB | USD 160 |
All prices were researched at Newegg.com on the day we published this review. The Barracuda LP 2 TB isn’t sold anymore.