Barracuda XT, Barracuda, Barracuda Green, DiamondMax and other desktop SATA and IDE drives

[Cantbecanit]

The partition results

Full report to come after Xmas 2011 where I will write up what I think of this drive, which at this time would read very impressed, you'll notice the com error in pic one, this hasn't changed since I last posted pics so I think it was either a loose or bad cable that did this, until I do a format of the drive though that figure isn't going away in the program.

Seagate 3TB Barracuda results Rig is Intel Q6600 3GB/s Gigabyte 775 board, 8GB CL7 Ram Antec 900 Case OCZ 600w PSU, NO O/C

[lucasden1]

Thanks for the great intructions. Very well put together.

[Cantbecanit]

Thank you also, it's very nice to hear those words.

Look back some time around April and I should have done testing @ 6 GB/s and as a slave to an SSD hopefully if funds allow me a new board and processor.

[CarlaAngelM]

Great post! It really help a lot.

[Cantbecanit]

UPDATED TO USE ON UEFi BIOS WITH O/S

Ok that time arrived to wipe and go again, in this post I have set it up on my new rig.

i5 2500K

Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD3P

MSi 560Ti

8GB GSkill C7 DDR3

If you can't see the data, copy the picture and open it on your PC.

Now before I post the screens this install is gone now as I wanted to use the drive as a storage drive from now on, another thing to note is although my new set up supports 6GB/s the drive I have doesn't so there will be no speed screens to show as it's still sata 2, so if you have CC43 as your FW on a 3TB chances are the 6GB/s is locked out on your drive also, SO WHEN BUYING CHECK THE LABEL SAYS 6GB/s, if it doesn't it will probably be a 3TB version.

Anyway the Windows install took around 15 minutes from inserting the set up disk to getting the welcome screen.

Here's the process for setting up an O/S on an EFi bios enabled board.

Boot to bios and set EFi option to either EFi or Auto, save and exit.

Boot your O/S set up disk.

Delete any partitions until you see one 2700GB one.

Install Windows

Load motherboard drivers

Load Graphic card drivers

Install RST & Console if it's Intel

Install Inf update, also found at Intel downloads

Re-boot and you should look like this below.

[Cantbecanit]

UPDATED USING AS STORAGE DRIVE WITHOUT O/S

Ok here's what it looks like as a back up drive to a main drive, again enable your EFi in the bios and simply perform a format in NTFS and this is what it should look like, if you hit recognition problems try NOT assigning a drive letter, or remove one if you already have.

If you can't see the data, copy the picture and open it on your PC.

[AlderonIron]

Thank you for including the screen shots, and not just a bunch of text, for those who aren't as computer literate.

[baracos]

This fits perfectly in my next hdd tunning. seagate rules.

[Cantbecanit]

NEW DISKWIZARD LINK

http://www.seagate.com/staticfiles/support/downloads/discwizard/DiscWizardSetup-14387.en.exe

[Cantbecanit]

Life performance, a quick show so you can see how it's standing up, this isn't a DN series drive btw