The Seagate Barracuda is a series of hard disk drives produced by Seagate Technology. Most of the drives in this series have a spindle speed of 7200 RPM. The line initially focused on high-capacity, high-performance SCSI drives; since 2001...

Last week Seagate Technologies announced their latest SSD, simple named BarraCuda SSD. The naming follows in line with the rest of the company's Guardian Series of drives and naming scheme.

Internally, the Seagate BarraCuda uses a STXZA01F5578 controller, which is a rebranded Phison Seagate is offering the BarraCuda 120 in capacities of 250 GB ($55), 500 GB ($70), 1 TB ($115)...

Chart-topping test results make this SATA SSD a worthy laptop or PC upgrade despite occasional small performance dips.