I'm running win7 on one of these little suckas on an open bench, works great, and so quiet compared to my raptors GEESH. It honestly makes me want to throw my raptors in the trash lol.
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I'm running win7 on one of these little suckas on an open bench, works great, and so quiet compared to my raptors GEESH. It honestly makes me want to throw my raptors in the trash lol.
I also installed Win7 right after i did those benchmarks, lol. Does yours have a low WEI score when the write cache is turned on? I noticed mine goes down to 2.9 in Win7 when it is, otherwise it is 5.9. Also which model did you get?
Is there any other benchmarks you guys wanna see? I am gonna zero fill it again before it gets Vista put on it, so it can be any read or write test.
Mine has 5.9 with write cache on or off. I have it in a little cage thing with a bunch of other drives so i can't see the label, but I think it's this model - ST3500410AS, and was purchased around Jan 15.
When to expect 2 platter 1TB HDD?
Which is correct? ST31000528AS or ST31000523AS
I have no idea, they should have shipped them by now. I'm starting to think that they might have stopped shipping the the ST3500410AS to fix a firmware issue and then decided to relabel it. It could be that they did the same with the ST31000523AS but did so before it actually got shipped to vendors hence the delay.
I also noticed that the average latency spec got changed on the spec sheet from 4.16 to 4.17, and the Sustained Data Rate says 125mb/s which is down from 160mb/s it says on there site. Also NewEgg has both versions of the 500GB drive but free shipping on the original part number.
Just some quick checks at win 7 stock.
http://www.movement-radio.com/fbd.png
http://www.movement-radio.com/atto.png
http://www.movement-radio.com/hdt32.png
WYSMNBWYG - what you see may not be what you get :D
http://www.pcdvd.com.tw/showthread.php?t=838752
Pretty impressive transfer numbers mrcape... matches a single Velociraptor in average transfer almost spot on. BUT the high access makes it unfit for anything other than storage or video editing really.
http://www.xcpus.com/GetDoc.aspx?doc=123&page=1
Looks like our review is pretty much consistent w/ what everyone else is seeing.
Seagate has us a 1TB review sample en-route and we'll see if there are any differences w/ that drive and the 500GB.
Does anyone know if any of Seagate's desktop drive have a ramp loading mechanism? Does the ES.2?
If you think any manufacturer wouldn't have behaved the same way as Seagate, you're kidding yourself. Deny, deny, deny then silent fix and only annouce when you're fixed is the way of the world sadly.
All manufacturers have problems with drive failures. I also keep hearing that every manufacturer is having problems with quality control. Funny that. The warranty reduction is rather annoying, but they've just equalised to most of the other manufacturers (and yes most are 3 years, including WD, as only WDs top = expensive drives are 5 years and actually Seagate's enterprise drives remain 5 years too. Seagate have far fewer SKUs, personally I find WD large number of SKUs confusing and they only have one level for desktop drives. Reality is of course, few people buy WD's top SKUs, they're expensive and not worth it for most. Note that most of the Green Power are not 5 years, it's only the Raid Edition i.e. expensive Green Powers that are.
don't know much about the suing SSD manufacturer bit but I suspect it's a patent issue, sadly an unseemingly thing which most manufacturers engage in.
Personally I've used Seagate almost exclusively for the past few years and had no failures. Of course, it means absolutely nothing as with any random anecdotal reports. Now that Seagate no longer have 5 year warranties, I no longer have a reason to choose Seagate but from what I've seen so far, it's difficult to say any manufacturer is clearly on top at the moment.
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 750GB 32MB ST3750528AS Available
http://www.bit2u.lv/en/computer_comp...ATA2_32MB.html
What platters are those? 250GBs again?
They are 500GB platters
http://www.seagate.com/staticfiles/d...da_7200_12.pdf
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB 32MB ST31000523AS tested
http://review.kakaku.com/review/K000...viewCD=192383/
http://translate.google.com.sg/trans...G%26as_qdr%3Dd
1TB review sample in da house.
We'll put it through the usualy battery of tests and get back to ya.
Nice!
Bring it on!
You can call me retarded if you want, but how do you get a 750GB drive when the platter size is supposed to be 500GB each?
2 heads for the first 500GB platter and only one for the second platter. Or they use 500GB and 250GB platters...