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Posted on 09/22/2009 6:18:23 AM PDT by Sudetenland
Seagate today started shipments of the Barracuda XT, which boasts the fastest SATA connection yet.
The Barracuda XT is a 7200 RPM 3.5-inch hard drive featuring 2 TB of storage capacity and a SATA 6 Gb/sec. interface.
"Capacity and performance remain the defining attributes of hard drives for PC gamers, digital multimedia content developers and many other customers requiring high-end systems at home and in the office," said Dave Mosley, executive vice president of Sales and Marketing at Seagate. "Seagate is meeting these requirements with the first 7200 RPM desktop hard drive to combine 2 TB of storage capacity with the fastest Serial ATA interface to date."
Of course, before you go blazing off with a SATA 6 Gb/sec. drive, you're going to need a motherboard that supports it. Right now, such boards aren't yet commonplace, but right now options include Asus' P7P55D Premium and Gigabyte's P55 series GA-P55-Extreme motherboards.
Source : Tom's Hardware US
Must be the type of drive you buy. I’ve seen WD with only 1 year warranty and some with 3. They may have went to 5 years recently, but when I used them it was either 1 or 3 years. And the ones with 1 year warranty broke within 13 months.
Maybe they fixed it since then.
Oh and I know Seagate bought out maxtor, but maxtor was also on my crap list.
http://www.wdc.com/en/company/releases/PressRelease.asp?release=264fe90b-5808-489e-9dec-05106e24ad79
in 2005 they extended business class waranty to 5 years and consumer class to 3 years. So before then it was 1 and 3 years for everything. And that’s when I wrote them off and went to seagate only.
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That woman did the sultriest, most soulful mattress commercial ever.
Lost 4000 pics when a 16 month old Seagate 280 gig external crashed while vacation. Now I can loose 1 t!
I try and stick with WD but I've tried a few Hitachi and Samsung drives and while it's not a huge sample they've been okay.
Nothing at all like the failure rate I saw on the Seagate drives about two years ago before I finally threw in the towel and gave up on them.
It just got too frustrating when the replacement drive failed....talk about junk.
The word...is “backup,” as in, “Backup your files, you putz!” :)
That’s a lot of pr0n.
Actually years ago the worst hard drives were the IBM then Hitachi drives.
All of the manufactures have had higher failure rates with drives above 500 Gigs than drives below that capacity. This is probably heat related since the larger the drive’s capacity the more work it has to do to retreive the data.
I have always followed this policy for my computers. The First or main drive, no more than 250 gigs split in two equal partitions. One for the OS and Programs, the other for a hidden backup using Acronis True Image.
THen all of my files, pictures, music and other stuff is stored on a second drive of 500 gigs or less. Finally I keep a backup of hte computer and all of the files, music, pictures on an external drive that I update once a month.
I backed up on CD about 300 hundred then “”click...”click”...”click”...
As for the large drives since storage use exploded I've gone to the 1Tb drives, have eight of them in two NAS boxes and they're doing fine. I'm trying to remember how old the oldest box is and man, it's "ancient", an old Freedom9 box that they don't even support any longer and nary a glitch showing up on any of the SMART attributes other than what you'd expect with 24/7 usage.
Don't get me wrong, I'm either RAID or backed up but I've had good luck with the large drives as long as they were WD.
Don't get me started on Seagate....
I agree, I’d rather buy 5 or 6 500 GB drives. These drives are not for storing family pictures, they are more for High Definition Movies.
This may seem like a long time ago but it wasn’t. I had purchased a 386(a long step up from my 7mhz(turbo) Tandy)and I had them put in a 80MB hard drive and thinking to myself, “I will NEVER use that much disk space!” Then I bought Win95 and that was the end of that pipe dream!:)AND I had to upgrade to a 486:)
Heck I remember my first Commodore 64 and thinking. “Wow, I’ll never use 64K of memory.”
I’ll stick with Hitachi for now. Maxtor blows.
Makes sense but I thought that all tracks had the same number of sectors, each with a fixed capacity.
That used to be true, but with zoned bit recording and logical block addressing there are more sectors are on the outer tracks.
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