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Seagate Pushes Hard Drive Platters to 160GB
TheRainDog writes "Although perpendicular recording has yet to make its way into desktop hard drives, Seagate continues to push platter densities the old fashioned way. The company's 160GB platters have the highest areal density in the industry by over 25%, allowing Seagate to create a 160GB Barracuda 7200.9 hard drive that uses a single platter and costs under $90. The single-platter design has lower noise levels and power consumption than multi-platter designs, and a lower probability of a catastrophic head crash. Higher areal densities also allow the drive head access the same amount of data over shorter physical distances, improving performance dramatically in some instances. The Tech Report has an in-depth review of the 160GB Barracuda 7200.9's performance against eight competitors from Hitachi, Maxtor, Seagate, and Western Digital."
You mean 1 TB ought to be enough for anybody ?
"City hall" in German is "Rathaus" Kinda explains a few things......
Interpreting as "the platters are spinning faster".
No really! - with these new HDDs the entire drive spins. Makes it very dangerous to leave the side off your PC.
That made no sense to me. You began by saying you couldn't fill more than 1 TB but then you gone on to say you have a few TB backed up onto disks. I'm assuming the few TB consists of porn which doesn't count because you deleted it from your computer.
"Makes it very dangerous to leave the side off your PC"
Hot-swap drive bays are out of the question then, huh?
Actually, I was gonna say that with all of these massive drives, that data loss will be accordingly more massive. I'll take 5 smaller drives on RAID over one big, cheap drive any day. There's really no price that can be put on lost data (usually). 160GB, even, for a single drive, is a LOT of data (unless it's stored in XML, in which case it may just be a single phone number).
I don't respond to AC's.
Noone said anthing about heat! I once cooked a burrito on an old 4g Seagate Barracuda. You know the one I'm talking about, with the big metal grille on the front. You see, I was at work, and tinkering with my Sparc 5 workstation, when I realized the fan in the external drive had failed, but not my home directory, upon which it lived. Well, of course I had a burrito handy, and figured that once I did a nice fsck -- twice -- that I'd be reasonably okay, so I put the burrito in the front of the bezel, where the faceplate is supposed to go, bounced the workstation, and started the fsck. Then I went outside to smoke cigarettes. After smoking for a while, and socializing with people, the burrito was no longer frozen, but HOT! Voila, instant sysadmin lunch. Ramen noodles are just as easy, simply take...
Zhrodague.net - I do projects and stuff too.
Oh yeah? Let's see you play frisbee or build a suit of shiny armour out of SATA cables...
Seagate to create a 160GB Barracuda 7200.9 hard drive
The Tech Report has an in-depth review of the 160GB Barracuda 7200.9's performance against eight competitors from Hitachi, Maxtor, Seagate, and Western Digital.
My money's on Seagate over Seagate in the 7th round.
Yeah. I long for the days when data wasn't packed so densely. Just think about hard it would be to lose all of your data if it were split across 160 1GB drives!