Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB, Single 500GB Platter

[ripken204]

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

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

[Bo_Fox]

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

[onethreehill]

Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB picture
http://skyline798.blog118.fc2.com/

[knissel]

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

[spursindonesia]

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

[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

[ripken204]

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

[[XC] Lead Head]

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

[safan80]

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.

[zanzabar]

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

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

[ripken204]

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..

[Clint]

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.

[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!

[onethreehill]

Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB "tested"
http://skyline798.blog118.fc2.com/blog-entry-1266.html

[BulldogPO]

Interesting indeed.
Weird mixup in first post.

[leomax]

Nice transfer rates.
But still 14.9ms

[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.

[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.

[tiro_uspsss]

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 ")

[[XC] Lead Head]

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

[zanzabar]

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

[renzokuken]

oo sweet - wonder how it performs

edit: source page has a HDTune - not impressed

edit2: thread title says seagate, & its a samsung

edit3: its only 5400rpm

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

[tiro_uspsss]

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

shoooosh! BTW - ur cable came yesterday

[Serra]

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.

[m^2]

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.