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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."
No first posts yet?? This has been on the front page over a minute now.
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Is that like Caesar and his platters?
Dumb, troll, unsubstantiated post. MOD DOWN!
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There's NO doubt of my subject line - you'd have to argue with the numbers from the test, & they're reflected in most EVERY IDE/EIDE speed-test out there ever done since the Western Digital Raptor 10k rpm family intro'd... & we all pretty much know this, right?
But, if not? Well - See the test results (especially performance-speed oriented ones, most of them) from the article, & tell me different!
(For the most purposes, judging by its wins in more events in that test than ANY other disk especially performance-wise? Well, like I said above - tell me different!)
They may only be in 36gb &/or 74gb size, but if you need more storage than that? Go offline if possible storing files, or use them RAID'd/striped/spanned!
(NTFS compression (reliable as hell imo & experience) buys you even more space though if you opt NOT to do those options for more space above, & with many bennies!)
E.G.-> With some VERY MINOR decompress time during loads into RAM of exe's or data once filesystem compressed like NTFS can do, which today's FAST cpu's offset massively anyhow? Well, since the files are smaller to read up off disk (once in ram decompression via filesystem drivers occurs & is CPU + memory speed driven), you get FASTER overall access time to them anyhow - & raptors? RULE ON ACCESS TIMES due to their ATA/SATA/PATA-IDE/EIDE unprecedented 10,000 rpm speeds of disk rotation!)
They're up there with the best from the Ultra-ScSi 15,000rpm world in many a way... w/out even using NCQ (they have TCQ though, but most times that needs a special adapter iirc).
APK
P.S.=> See, I actually know & use them & can say 1 thing: Best disks I've ever owned & I've owned most all vendors types & many models (ScSi-UltraScSi/IDE-EIDE (PATA/SATA)) from them in 16 years of PC-Computing...
They're AWESOME, truly awesome HDD's, no b.s.!
Hey I run 2 of 'em here (74gb bootdisk & its earlier 36gb sibling - fast as hell, reliable, & 5 year enterprise class warranties!
Personally, my take on it's simple: If you're into building a FAST personal computer? They're just the pre-requisite for a PC-hotrod for the price/performance mix if you go IDE/EIDE - & can compete with the BEST of the UltraScSi world w/out the added price of a high-end adapter for SCSI (if you're mobo doesn't have one, & most don't really for normal PC's, maybe serverboards do)!... apk