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Rad Community Technical Discussion Boards (Computer Hardware + PC Software) >> PC Hardware + Software (except Cloning programs) >> Seagate Unleashes New Terabyte Drives http://radified.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1182876351 Message started by Pleonasm on Jun 26th, 2007 at 11:45am |
Title: Seagate Unleashes New Terabyte Drives Post by Pleonasm on Jun 26th, 2007 at 11:45am
Need more storage?
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Title: Re: Seagate Unleashes New Terabyte Drives Post by Rad on Jun 26th, 2007 at 12:35pm
Barracuda 11.0
Seagate has always been my favorite drive. I know any drive can die at any time, but I feel more comfortable using my system when I know it runs on a Segate drive. Plus I think they're quieter. 32 MB cache. Is that the most of any drive. Seems like were moving toward solid-state drives (memory-based) .. a little at a time. Here's the product page: http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/desktops/barracuda_hard_drives/barracuda_7200.11/ Thx Pleo. We should note that Hitachi (who bought IBM's disk storage dept) achieve 1-TB quite a while ago: http://www.hitachigst.com/portal/site/en/menuitem.8027a91c954924ae4bda9f30eac4f0a0/ |
Title: Re: Seagate Unleashes New Terabyte Drives Post by MrMagoo on Jun 26th, 2007 at 4:25pm
True, but Hitachi is notably more expensive at $440:
http://hitachigst.pgpartner.com/search_getprod.php/vcode=HIT/partnum=0A34193// Seagate's drive brings HD storage prices to (what I consider) an amazingly low $.39/GB. At this rate, it seems like tape drives and even optical storage will soon become impractical for even the largest data storage needs. Of course, optical storage may still have an advantage for the longevity of data. |
Title: Re: Seagate Unleashes New Terabyte Drives Post by Pleonasm on Jun 26th, 2007 at 5:15pm
I might be wrong, but I seem to recall reading that the Hitachi 1TB drive is only in limited production and is very difficult to obtain, whereas the Seagate unit is projected to be available “in volume” when it arrives.
No doubt, there will be a new set of hard disk drive benchmark comparisons on the way . . . . |
Title: Re: Seagate Unleashes New Terabyte Drives Post by MrMagoo on Jun 26th, 2007 at 5:59pm
As much as I like the price of this drive, a quick check of NewEgg shows you can get more storage for your money. A Samsung Spinpoint of roughly comparable features offers 500GB for $109, or $.22/GB.
Of course the newest and best is never the cheapest, and its nice to see that the price of the 1TB drive isn't unreasonable in comparison. |
Title: Re: Seagate Unleashes New Terabyte Drives Post by Rad on Jun 28th, 2007 at 11:02pm
just to let you know, newegg has the hitachi 1TB drive in-stock:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145141 |
Title: Re: Seagate Unleashes New Terabyte Drives Post by Pleonasm on Jun 29th, 2007 at 3:46pm Quote:
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Title: Re: Seagate Unleashes New Terabyte Drives Post by Pleonasm on Sep 10th, 2007 at 1:08pm
It appears that Seagate’s new 1TB hard disk drive will include encryption . . . .
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