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Seagate Rolls Out 400 GB SATA Drives

Posted by simoniker on from the rather-significant dept.

SenorCitizen writes "Seagate is the first hdd manufacturer to announce 400 GB 3.5" hard drives. The 7200.8 is SATA native and comes with buffer sizes up to 16 MB. Seagate also announced a 2.5" portable external hard drive with 100 GB, and an external USB2 pocket hard drive with 5 GB. Get leeching!"

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  1. Finally! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I was just about to purchase 2 x 200GB drives. Now I can pay thrice as much for storage I'll never use!

  2. Oh my by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is that 5GB in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?

    1. Re:Oh my by kfg · · Score: 5, Funny

      Is that 5GB in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?

      Well, now that you mention it, several of the pictures I have on this drive are pictures of you -- and a pony, that I found on some website.

      It seems your Xboyfriend had an X10 camera and. . .

      Welcome to the world of ubiquitous data, sweet thing.

      KFG

    2. Re:Oh my by NanoGator · · Score: 5, Funny

      "Is that 5GB in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?"

      You think 5 gigs is impressing? Just wait until I unzip.

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  3. system requirement by gandalphthegreen · · Score: 5, Funny

    I suppose that this is part of the technology that makes a Windows Longhorn installation possible.

  4. And the name of this HD model is.... by hellfire · · Score: 3, Funny

    Seagate is the first hdd manufacturer to announce 400 GB 3.5" hard drives.

    Seagate tenatively plans to call this line of hard drives the "Pornotopia" series.

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    1. Re:And the name of this HD model is.... by fungus · · Score: 2, Funny

      And Seagate suggests the drives work best with the new Sempr0n AMD processor.

  5. Re:Ooops... by NanoGator · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Wouldn't that 100GB?"

    No, they're talking about a Zip drive. Slashdot's just a little slow on reporting current news.

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  6. Pr0n by LittleLebowskiUrbanA · · Score: 2, Funny

    Has anybody tested the pr0n transfer rates on these?

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  7. Re:Speeds? by tntguy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Perhaps, but the drool would evaporate from the generated heat before it even left the corner of your mouth.

  8. Re:Ooops... by Cheerio+Boy · · Score: 1, Funny

    Never mind - misread the line. 100MB is the buffer size for that drive.

    Sheesh. My first original drive was smaller than the buffer on these new drives.

    Really makes me think about where things have gone...

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  9. Wow 400 GB in a single drive by k4_pacific · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's just amazing. I remember back when I was in college and couldn't afford a good hard drive. Instead, I scrounged several cheap, small drives and an extra IDE card. My PC, built into an old server tower, had seven (7) IDE drives totalling about 5 GB in disk space. There was so much rotating mass, you could balance the PC on its corner and watch the precession.

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    1. Re:Wow 400 GB in a single drive by eSims · · Score: 4, Funny
      At the risk of sounding on-ups-man some might find this intersting/amusing.

      Due to lack of cash flow I had at one point 22 Drives attached to my poor Duron 700 for almost 200GB of disk space. There were 12 IDE (4 builin, 4 on each of 2 add in cards) the rest were scsi.

      I set it up in a FreeBSD vinum raid5 array and although performance was abysmal I had reliability even though many of the scsi were salvaged 4.5 or 9gb disks!

      Some would call me crazy (or worse), but I got by until better times and was able to purchase a decent drive to replace them.

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  10. Re:Length of Warranty? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "Is the warrany on this 400GB drive 1 year or 3 years? I didn't find mention on their site of how long it is, and if it is only 1 year why should you trust your data to it?"

    Yes, but only for eleven months.

  11. This just out... by nmb3000 · · Score: 5, Funny
    AP Story:

    In response to a recent article on Slashdot, both the RIAA and the MPAA have announced a partnership with Seagate, Inc.

    The details of this new partnership are sketchy, but it seems that it will entail the automated delivery of detailed information on everyone that purchases the new Seagate 400GB SATA hard drive. This comes from the assumption that the only reason anyone would really need that amound of drivespace is to store their growing collection of music and movies. Understandably, downloaders and rippers are tired or poor quality movies and audio, and as such this new drive will allow them to contain all their new high-bitrate media in one central location.

    In a related story, the RIAA has officially sued Seagate because this new hard drive gives people the capability to store pirated music on their computers. Said an RIAA spokesman, "We feel this is a gross violation of artist's rights, and that it's our responsibility to protect them."

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  12. Re:Length of Warranty? by sharkey · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's warranteed for as long as you own the drive, or until you open the anti-static bag. Whichever comes first.

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  13. in other news by geekoid · · Score: 4, Funny

    Seagate has redefined a 'Byte' to be 4 bits.

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  14. Re:It's been said before by Ford+Prefect · · Score: 5, Funny

    Re:It's been said before (Score:1, Redundant)

    I find something terribly amusing in a post about RAID being moderated 'Redundant'. 100% correct!

    Bloody hell, I'm such a nerd...

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  15. Re:Ooops... by Zapper · · Score: 5, Funny

    I always get a bit depressed when I read about current tech.
    First, video cards get more RAM than my main system.
    Then , HDDs get more cache RAM than my video card has.
    Technology prediction: Tomorrow (or maybe the next day), Intel or AMD release CPUs with more cache than my system RAM. AAAAARRRGH.

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  16. Re:Length of Warranty? by TheGavster · · Score: 2, Funny

    The key then is obviously to come up with some kind of pentrator to make SATA and power connections without disturbing the seal ...

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  17. Re:Backups... by Greger47 · · Score: 2, Funny
    To bad jpegs are already compressed....

    /greger

  18. Re:Ooops... by dasmegabyte · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, it's your own fault for using Linux. If you used Windows like me, you'd be forced to upgrade every four years or so...

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  19. Re:Ooops... by Wraithlyn · · Score: 4, Funny

    LUXURY!

    My system's so old that modern CPUs have more capacity in SINGLE REGISTERS than all my disk storage combined! Uphill! Both ways! ;)

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  20. Re:Sure, good stuff... by spectre_240sx · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wow, you're going to be pretty pissed off when that drive fails.

  21. Re:Ooops... by suwain_2 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Slashdot's just a little slow on reporting current news.

    Oh no, it runs stories in a pretty timely fashion. The Zip drive story is just a dupe.

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