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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. Question for the dumb among us (ie: me!) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Why is this serial stuff so much quicker than the older parallel connections?

    1. Re:Question for the dumb among us (ie: me!) by kahei · · Score: 0, Redundant


      It's not; the limiting factor is disk speed, not connection speed, and that's likely to stay true for a long time.

      This is just an iteration of the general serial-parallell-serial alternation that comms technologies tend to go through.

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  2. Three Generations... by ackthpt · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Three generations mean you can buy SATA three times. The SATA controller I have is only version 1. So I'll stick my neck out and suggest that 2 and three will parallel the release of their respective drives.

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  3. Serial ATA has a long way to go! by Angry+Black+Man · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Of course Serial ATA is going to be great when they get all the kinks out but for now, the Seagate Barracuda is barely faster than the WD SE drives with 8mb cache (which is a bit cheaper for now).

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  4. Serial ATA Is The FUTURE! by BiggestPOS · · Score: 1, Redundant

    1. Smaller Cables. 2. Hot Swappable :) 3. Small speed bump to 150 Thats all I can think of at the moment :/

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  5. Already /.'ed by mseeger · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Does anyone know if there's a mirror somewhere?

    Martin

  6. Re:TROLL ALERT! by Marx_Mrvelous · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I've got Karma to burn...

    What MORONIC moderator moderates ME down while the obvious, senseless TROLL gets modded up?

    Moderation: Drawing everyone to the lowest commond denominator (read: Idiots!!!)

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