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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. Length of Warranty? by DAldredge · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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?

    1. Re:Length of Warranty? by deepestblue · · Score: 4, Insightful

      How would a 3-year warranty help me recover my data in case of failure? If I don't have backups, I don't see how I can trust my data however long the warranty period is.

    2. Re:Length of Warranty? by deepestblue · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I agree. The point is that there's a difference between trusting a company to make good products and trusting the drive to keep your data safe. The latter is independent of warranty, unlike what the original post implies.

  2. It's been said before by agent+dero · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't need 400GB, hell I don't need 160GB; I need a hard drive that is more reliable

    These are cool and all, i'd love to have one, but I'll rest easier knowing that my 80GB, let alone 400GB is safe and reliable for some time to come.

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  3. Speeds? by anthonyclark · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Meh, size is nothing, speed is everything. Having used a 10k and a 15k rpm scsi disk in my workstation I'm far more eager to see faster rather than larger.

    Now 20k or 30k rpm? *that* would make me drool :-)

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    1. Re:Speeds? by jfengel · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Rather than suffer the machanical difficulties associated with a 20k rpm drive, putting a stripe set across three 7200 rpm drives will move data very quickly and last longer. Yeah, the seek time is still slower, but the sustained rate is just as high, and smart caching will eliminate a lot of the differences in seek time.

      That said, I'd adore a drive that fast for my swap space.

  4. Re:Backups... by anthonyclark · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A LTO-2 tape will hold 400GB compressed, 200GB uncompressed. The LTO-1 (200GB compressed) library I use to back up my little corner of the net can hold 7.2TB worth of data.

    Of course, those tapes cost like 50 bucks each and the drives cost several thousand...

    A large and *affordable* backup medium would be nice.

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  5. Come on! by yttrium · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Can't we just say 0.4 TB? It's only a matter of time...

  6. What happened to native FireWire drives? by GPS+Pilot · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This thing has a native Serial ATA interface... will we ever see a drive with a native FireWire interface?

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  7. Re:IBM already ships 400GB SATA disks by Nogami_Saeko · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I recently quit purchasing regular ATA drives and have begun moving my systems to SATA.

    While the performance difference is negligable, the reduction in wiring clutter, and not having to mess around with jumpers on the back of the drive is pretty nice.

    If it were a $50 price difference, I would've stayed with regular ATA, however at a $10 price difference (or less), it's a no-brainer.

    Now, my master plan of a 8 x 400gb RAID array server is starting to look rather attainable :)

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  8. Re:does it matter..? by Martin+Blank · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is why RAID-1 is so nice. I went from "OHMYGODILOSTADRIVEMYDATAISGONE!!!" to "Oh, a drive failed. How annoying." Cross-ship from the manufacturer (Maxtor in my case), and in two days, I'm back up and running.

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  9. Quit makeing up stuff. by DAldredge · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Specs from a WDC 80GB 7200 RPM IDE drive.

    Current Requirements and Power Dissipation
    Operating Mode RMS Current Power, Typical 1
    12 VDC 5 VDC
    Spinup 2.2 A 525 mA 17.0 W
    Read/Write/Idle 350 mA 800 mA 8.0 W
    Seek 900 mA 675 mA 14.0 W
    Power Management Commands
    Operating Mode RMS Current 1 Power, Typical 1
    12 VDC 5 VDC
    Idle (E1H) 330 mA 675 mA 7.25 W
    Standby (E0H) 20 mA 200 mA 1.25 W
    Sleep (E6H) 20 mA 50 mA

    0.5 W