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Seagate Barracuda V Serial ATA Drive Reviewed

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the first-to-market dept.

Mike Parsons writes "Andrew and Adam over at Explosive Labs have a nice review up on the Seagate Barracuda V, one of the first production Serial ATA drives. Keep in mind, Generation 1 of Serial ATA was not meant to be a 'incredible performance jump.' Rather, its intended purpose was to make the industry transition seamless to allow time to mature the future generations of SATA. Generation 2 and 3 of SATA show more promise for those interested in performance, as white papers behind them gives you the nice fuzzy feeling for speed!"

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  1. Re:And the obligatory quote... by ackthpt · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    640K should be enough for anybody.

    That's system memory, you mean 30MB should be enough for anybody.

    It's rather mind numbing to see the density of today's drives and recall when an entire information system ran in 128K Words (256KB) of memory and on two DEC RP04 88MB hard drives (I performed the offline backups myself, oof)

    Besides, Gates denies ever making that statement, but more humorous, "The next generation of interesting software will be done on Macintosh, not the IBM PC."-- Bill Gates, 1984

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  2. Re:Serial ATA has a long way to go! by Gothmolly · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    1. Mark him as a foe
    2. Let Slashcode moderate him off the page.
    3. ??
    4. Profit!

    Of yeah, and in Soviet Russia, something something something...

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  3. TROLL ALERT! by Marx_Mrvelous · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Q: What does any of this have to do with the review, or serial ATA?

    A: Nothing. This is a karma-whoring troll!

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