Seagate takes it to half a terabyte

[Eguy]

Seagate is today launching a range of Barracuda desktop hard drives delivering up to 500GB of storage capacity. The 7200.9 family of Barracudas sports the latest in SATA features, including, as you'd expect, NCQ. You also get a claimed 3Gbps data transfer rate and the latest ClickConnect connections for SATA cables. Capacities start at 80GB, so obtaining a 7200rpm, 3Gbps NCQ drive could potentially be fairly cheap. Or, if you have a lot of po... 'media' to store, the 500GB daddy of the 7200.9 family might be preferable. Confident in the durability and stability of its drives, Seagate continues with its five-year warranty policy. That's great news for the consumer, given that some hard drives are only guaranteed for a feeble one year. Expect these drives to be popping up in stores and inside pre-built systems soon.

:worship: :worship: Seagate!!

 

[FragTek]

Where's my damn 300gb 10k SATAII Raptor????????

 

[bloodthirst]

fuck man raid0 2 of them and your set

 

[WC Annihilus]

Haha, Hitachi already did that

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,120102,00.asp

 

[NickS]

Hitachi is ownage. Seagate's the only drive maker that's ever had an HDD fail on me. Thank god I had a warranty left, RMA'ed the mofo .

 

[Eguy]

Hitachi is too hot, My seagate is great that I am using with my shuttle project and my 2 WD's are shitty and slow. Maxtor makes the best IMO, I have had my 120gb since SATA first came out and it aint' shown a sign of nothin'

 

[FarFarAway]

Hitachi is too hot, My seagate is great that I am using with my shuttle project and my 2 WD's are shitty and slow. Maxtor makes the best IMO, I have had my 120gb since SATA first came out and it aint' shown a sign of nothin'

Maxtor are known to get pretty hot.

Hitachi and Seagate make some of the best drives around adn obviously WD's Raptors are pretty damn good

 

[Eguy]

Maxtor are known to get pretty hot.

Hitachi and Seagate make some of the best drives around adn obviously WD's Raptors are pretty damn good

hmm mine is pretty cool

never been a fan of hitachi after 3 failures, never a failure with seagate

BTW isn't the hitachi 500GB sata1 not 2?

 

[WC Annihilus]

Hitachi's new Deskstar 7K500 drive marks several milestones in the storage industry: It's the first desktop hard drive to reach 500GB and one of the first to use the speedy new SATA II interface. In terms of how it stores data, though, the Deskstar may be among the last of its kind, as drive manufacturers begin to approach the limits of how densely they can pack data using today's standard recording technology.

Read plz

 

[Eguy]

aha, thank you for the clarification and it is not speedy

I have 2 SATA3g and its slow as hell (prob mobo)

 

[hawkinsa21]

That would turn Jesus to drink!! :all_cohol