NoNoBadDog

January 07, 2009 at 12:20am

Considering the competition (i.e. Western Digital), I wonder who you would trust to pull it off? Seagate makes a far better product than WD could ever hope to make...

Syntax

January 06, 2009 at 9:53pm

If they're shipping at the same price(ish?) as the old generation, that's reason enough to test the waters.

 

I  find that usually if a seagate if going to die, it's going to do it in the first week, which should be covered by any good retailer. 

Syntax

January 06, 2009 at 9:40pm

Packing more data into a smaller area gives the drive a higher aerial density,
making the drive more efficient and faster by decreasing the movement of the
heads that read and write the data. This movement is what causes the latency in
access times, so making this need to move very far decrease is key. 

 

 This also means we will be seeing bigger drives soon, when they start
using 3 platters at this density. :) 

 

Keith E. Whisman

January 07, 2009 at 1:15am

As for performance you notice speedier response when you say open a directory full of MP3's. I don't know what the actual read and right will be but those numbers should be a little better than the 7200.11 as the heads can access more data on just two platters than having to scrounge around on 3 or more but what I'm interested in is this. Take 4 of these platters and what do you get? You get a 2TB hdd. I've had 4 platter HDD befor and there is nothing wrong with them they work just fine. I'll take tons of storage at a slight performance cost but then again that performance can be mitigated by the circuitry on the HDD controller and the type and ammount of Cache and the interface used. 

Also why are HDD's stuck at 7200RPM's only or 10,000RPMs as the next step up? Why not think outside the box. Why not make HDD's that have a 9,000RPM spindle speed or slower or faster? Why do HDD manufacturers have to follow the standards? I say screw the standards and just make a huge HDD and then tweak the hell out of it for all out performance with acceptable error rates. 

Syntax

January 06, 2009 at 9:47pm

What are the performance data?

I'd focus on simple english syntax before trolling our benefactors. Just a thought.