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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!"

4 of 418 comments (clear)

  1. USB pen distros by mastergoon · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Once BIOS supports booting from them, USB pen distros will be really nice. Read and write, and now a whole 5 gig on something easier to transport than a CD.

  2. Sure, good stuff... by Eric(b0mb)Dennis · · Score: 4, Interesting

    But not down to my level of use, seems more geared at enterprise solutions....80gb IDE drives are going for what... 50 cents a gb now? last 80gb drive i bought was around $60

    Don't know the cost of this drive, but i'll stick to my RAID arrays and be happy as a Joe Consumer.

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    Excuse me, I don't mean to impose, but I am the ocean
  3. Backups... by CompSurfer · · Score: 5, Interesting

    But the only thing short of a really long tape that you can backup these things to in one media is another 400GB hdd. (it would still be 86 4.7GB DVDs)

  4. What's the maximum partition size in WinXP/Win2003 by davegaramond · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Win2k's is 128GB and I was bitten by this once. I bought a 160GB drive, created one big partition with Redhat 7.3, and formatted it as NTFS under Win2k. Win2k displays it as 160GB but actually when the drive is near full, old data was overwritten by the new one!

    Is Win2k's limitation artificial? I'd hate that.

    Well, anyway, I've said goodbye to Windows as my desktop.