Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB, Single 500GB Platter

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12-30-2008, 06:08 PM
ripken204

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Originally Posted by Bobsama

That's a whole lotta :banana::banana::banana::banana:, gomeler! Sure you can handle it all? :rofl:

I just got a 1TB drive, which means I have no clue how I'm going to fill it, or organize what I download!

you'll find a way, i have 4x1TB and 3x640GB and i managed to fill a bunch of it :)
12-30-2008, 06:08 PM
Bo_Fox

Sweet.. last I heard, we'll be seeing a 2TB drive from Seagate in April 2009..
12-30-2008, 06:18 PM
onethreehill

Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB picture
http://skyline798.blog118.fc2.com/
12-30-2008, 07:24 PM
knissel

DAMN! I just bought 2x 500g 7,200 barracudas
12-30-2008, 08:09 PM
spursindonesia

Is there any physical limit on the density of a HDD platter ?
12-30-2008, 09:00 PM
Loque

I remember losing a 40gb hdd and was a nightmare of lost data, now just imagining the amount of stuff I have to reinstall on a >1tb hdd.. x_X
12-30-2008, 09:22 PM
ripken204

reinistall? why would you install something on a 1TB hdd? they are meant for storage.
12-30-2008, 09:43 PM
[XC] Lead Head

Quote:

Originally Posted by ripken204

reinistall? why would you install something on a 1TB hdd? they are meant for storage.

Why wouldn't you install stuff on it? My steam folder is 50+ GB alone. Thats a lot of space to be taken up on a main boot drive
12-30-2008, 09:55 PM
safan80

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bo_Fox

Sweet.. last I heard, we'll be seeing a 2TB drive from Seagate in April 2009..

I want to see a 2TB WD drive. I don't like how seagate initially responded to the issues with the 1.5TB drive so I'm not going to use them for a while if ever again.
12-30-2008, 10:14 PM
zanzabar

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Originally Posted by tiro_uspsss

i realise that :) - & its seems to be a 3.5" - have nooo idea why they choose 5400rpm - probably for quiet & power saving - but thats a let down in performance :(

its for external enclosures

Quote:

Originally Posted by knissel

DAMN! I just bought 2x 500g 7,200 barracudas

that was a bad pick, they have no upside

and why do people jock seagate so much they have a 3 year warranty are slower with sata than WD or samsung and WD raised their warranty to 5 years
12-30-2008, 10:24 PM
ripken204

Quote:

Originally Posted by [XC] Lead Head

Why wouldn't you install stuff on it? My steam folder is 50+ GB alone. Thats a lot of space to be taken up on a main boot drive

your OS drive must be really small then..
12-30-2008, 10:39 PM
Clint

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Originally Posted by safan80

I want to see a 2TB WD drive. I don't like how seagate initially responded to the issues with the 1.5TB drive so I'm not going to use them for a while if ever again.

Yes, I agree. I have two Seagate 1.5TB drives and have already replaced one that came DOA. And how convenient of them to change warranty from 5 years to 3 years... The drives are now mirrored and I'll swap them for a WD 2TB as soon as they show up. Seagate has lost me as a customer, that's for sure.:down:
12-30-2008, 11:38 PM
turbox997

Only 5400rpm

I bet it's because they don't have heads that can read it at 7200rpm yet, they need to perfect it or work out some bugs. But yeah 500GB's is a lot for a perpendicular single platter, it will need a hell of a head to read it and keep up reliably at 7200rpm's!
12-31-2008, 12:35 AM
onethreehill

Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB "tested"
http://skyline798.blog118.fc2.com/blog-entry-1266.html
12-31-2008, 02:14 AM
BulldogPO

Interesting indeed.
Weird mixup in first post.
12-31-2008, 02:37 AM
leomax

Nice transfer rates.
But still 14.9ms :shakes:
12-31-2008, 02:50 AM
Pillo-kun

Looked at the hdtune test cus its the only test i can relate to and the new 500gb platter disk is not so impressive when i compare to mine 640gb disks(solo) get actually better results.
12-31-2008, 03:48 AM
Hornet331

imho 5400rpm is the way to go for storage drives. I like my WD 1TB green. Its silent, and has low power consumption. For OS/Games now only a raptor/SDD comes to mind. :yepp:
12-31-2008, 05:27 PM
tiro_uspsss

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Originally Posted by zanzabar

WD raised their warranty to 5 years

on *all* their drives?

the crystalmark read results are in line with what I was guessing: ~133MB/s ")
12-31-2008, 07:59 PM
[XC] Lead Head

Quote:

Originally Posted by ripken204

your OS drive must be really small then..

Windows loves to get pokey, and it is always good to reinstall it every 6 months or so. It would be apain to reinstall everything again after you format
12-31-2008, 08:06 PM
zanzabar

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Originally Posted by tiro_uspsss

on *all* their drives?

the crystalmark read results are in line with what I was guessing: ~133MB/s ")

well most of them all of the black and the non green oem, and all enterprise and veloca
http://support.wdc.com/warranty/poli...pe=end&lang=en
12-31-2008, 08:17 PM
renzokuken

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Originally Posted by tiro_uspsss

oo sweet - wonder how it performs :hrhr:

edit: source page has a HDTune - not impressed :down:

edit2: thread title says seagate, & its a samsung :rolleyes:

edit3: its only 5400rpm :down:

lol tiro, just rip apart the OP why don't ya!
12-31-2008, 08:31 PM
tiro_uspsss

Quote:

Originally Posted by renzokuken

lol tiro, just rip apart the OP why don't ya!

shoooosh! :p: BTW - ur cable came yesterday :up:
12-31-2008, 08:32 PM
Serra

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Originally Posted by spursindonesia

Is there any physical limit on the density of a HDD platter ?

Likely so, but we aren't anywhere near it yet. Various new techs have been shown in the last decade that could make 500GB/platter look like nothing... the question is how many of them are actually mass producible at a cost the market could bear?

Still, I haven't heard of any new HDD technologies that are likely to revolutionize things in the next few years - I suspect that at least mainline we'll simply continue to see incremental growth like we have been seeing.
12-31-2008, 09:53 PM
m^2

Quote:

Originally Posted by [XC] Lead Head

Windows loves to get pokey, and it is always good to reinstall it every 6 months or so. It would be apain to reinstall everything again after you format

Reinstall every 6 months?? What for?
Better keep your OS clean. It can live for years unless you abuse it.

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