Seagate U Series 5
The Seagate U Series 5 hard drive has a black rubber-like glove that protects the chassis. (This also may actually make it a little quieter as well.) This Seagate was one of the slower drives in our roundup--it was only slightly faster than the Samsung drive. It didn't score over 10,000 in Business Disk and it just scored under 20,000 in High-End Disk. Its access times were quite high and its score in the CPU utilisation test was a little higher than most but overall none of the drives relied too much on the CPU anyway. This drive also has a 512KB buffer like the Samsung but the Seagate had a faster average seek time, which made it a little faster than the Samsung drive.
The Seagate U Series 5 drive was priced at only $281. This made it the second least expensive hard disk. It also offered the second best price per GB at $7.04.
Company:Seagate Technology
Price:AU$281.93
Phone:02 8748 2700
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