Seagate Barracuda 750ES

Introduction

The Seagate Barracuda ES family represents the third generation of Seagate SATA drives that officially target the entry-level server market where cost and high capacity outweigh raw IOps performance requirements.

Leveraged from the first 3.5" design to incorporate perpendicular recording (the desktop-oriented Barracuda 7200.10), the Barracuda ES manages an impressive flagship capacity of 750 gigabytes delivered across four platters. Seagate specs the ES with an 8.5 millisecond seek time and equips the majority of the family with a 16-megabyte buffer, though less-capacious members are also available with a smaller, 8-megabyte cache. As always, the firm backs the drive with a 5-year warranty.

Seagate has dropped the "NL35" designation, a brand initially established as an enterprise-oriented alternative to the consumer-targeted "Barracuda 7200" series. After a year of marketing the 400 GB NL35 and 500 GB NL35.2, however, the company felt that it was leaving behind a name that carries weight and signifies quality in the business sector.