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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. IBM already ships 400GB SATA disks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Seagate is not the first with 400GB disks,
    IBM announced them a copule months ago and already ships them.

  2. No problem by Sycraft-fu · · Score: 5, Informative

    Get multiple drives and RAID them together. A 2-disc RAID-1 is quite reliable, but you can go for more if you are really concerned. Also, go SCSI instead of IDE. SCSI drives tend to be engineered to a higher standard, and are generally warenteed longer to boot.

    However, don't bitch about the price. You WILL pay more for less storage, that's the cost of reliability.

  3. Re:What's the maximum partition size in WinXP/Win2 by Tranzig · · Score: 5, Informative

    The default windows 2000 install does not support harddisk sizes over 128gb. SP3 enables the support for 48bit LBA, thus solving this problem.
    Here's the related MSKB article.

  4. Re:USB pen distros by wo1verin3 · · Score: 5, Informative

    My IBM ThinkPad already allows me to boot from a USB Memory key.. and the ThinkPad is almost 2 years old.

  5. Re:USB pen distros by Sielle · · Score: 5, Informative

    Most current BIOS's will already support booting off of USB drives.