The Highlander Posted April 23, 2006 Report Share Posted April 23, 2006 Seagate readies 750GB desktop hard drive Seagate is on the verge of announcing a 3.5in desktop hard drive with a capacity of 750GB - increasing the Barracuda 7200.10 line's maximum storage space by 50 per cent. Seagate hasn't formally announced the 750GB model, but it is already beginning to appear on the company's marketing material. The drive runs at 7,200rpm and contains 16MB of cache memory. Like other models in the line, it has an average latency of 4.2ms. Seagate will offer the HDD with a choice of Ultra ATA 100, 1.5Gbps SATA or 3Gbps SATA interfaces. The Serial ATA versions both support Native Command Queuing (NCQ). The drive's contains four platters accessed using eight read and write heads. Its capacity is believed to be a result of Seagate's perpendicular recording technology. Like other such drives, Seagate will offer the 750GB model with a five-year warranty. As yet pricing and availability is not known. ® Full story here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grandpabruce Posted April 23, 2006 Report Share Posted April 23, 2006 Seagate readies 750GB desktop hard driveSeagate is on the verge of announcing a 3.5in desktop hard drive with a capacity of 750GB - increasing the Barracuda 7200.10 line's maximum storage space by 50 per cent. Seagate hasn't formally announced the 750GB model, but it is already beginning to appear on the company's marketing material. The drive runs at 7,200rpm and contains 16MB of cache memory. Like other models in the line, it has an average latency of 4.2ms. Seagate will offer the HDD with a choice of Ultra ATA 100, 1.5Gbps SATA or 3Gbps SATA interfaces. The Serial ATA versions both support Native Command Queuing (NCQ). The drive's contains four platters accessed using eight read and write heads. Its capacity is believed to be a result of Seagate's perpendicular recording technology. Like other such drives, Seagate will offer the 750GB model with a five-year warranty. As yet pricing and availability is not known. ® Full story here That is one heckuva lot of data to lose. You would need 2 of them. One for ghosting the main drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendon Posted April 23, 2006 Report Share Posted April 23, 2006 Oooooo, lovely! Imagine a RAID array built out of those mothers!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grandpabruce Posted April 23, 2006 Report Share Posted April 23, 2006 Oooooo, lovely! Imagine a RAID array built out of those mothers!! ROFLMAO! What a beauty that would be, depending on what raid array you used. I bet you could get your computer to smoke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Highlander Posted April 23, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 23, 2006 ROFLMAO! What a beauty that would be, depending on what raid array you used. I bet you could get your computer to smoke. ill raid 5, four of the suckers with the 5th as a hot spare... ( and then ill mortgage the house ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
my7551 Posted April 24, 2006 Report Share Posted April 24, 2006 What, you hit "format" on Monday and come back on Friday to see how it's doing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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