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Seagate Announces 750GB Hard Drives

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the totally-unintentional dept.

Hack Jandy writes "Seagate documents have leaked out the two 750GB 7200.10 Barracuda hard drives. The drives are the first desktop hard drives to use perpendicular recording, feature a 16MB cache and 7200RPM spindle."

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  1. On Seagate's product page: by amcnabb · · Score: 4, Informative

    Check out the Seagate Barracuda for more info.

  2. Re:But what about... by onx · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yes, it should considering that according to Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS [wikipedia.org] states that the maximum volume size for an NTFS volume is 16EiB. One exibyte is 1,152,921,504,606,846,976 bytes, so 16 exibytes = 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 bytes. Since a 750GB hard drive should hold approximately 750,170,112,000 bytes, an NTFS volume should be able to handle 24,590,081 of those 750GB hard drives in a RAID array. Now assuming a RAID array can handle that many of these drives, and that this new 750GB hard drive merely takes the price spot of Seagate's current finest offering of a 500GB hard drive (priced on newegg as $295 each) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82 E16822148108 [newegg.com] rather than debuting at a higher price point, which it probably will, that many hard drives would cost about $6,147,520,250 before tax, and not including any of the massive discounts one might expect to recieve for such a massive purchase. On top of that, at a sales tax rate of 7.75%, the tax on those drives would cost you $476,432,819.38. So I don't know about you, but I doubt this is going to be a problem for either XP or Vista for a long, long time (assuming you use NTFS partitions).

  3. Re:Format this Red Hat! by Alioth · · Score: 5, Informative
    Eh? What are you wittering on about?
    [alioth@ZenIV ~]$ df -h
    Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
    /dev/sda3 8.2G 1.3G 6.5G 17% /
    /dev/sda1 494M 52M 418M 11% /boot
    none 1014M 0 1014M 0% /dev/shm
    /dev/sda5 4.1G 57M 3.8G 2% /tmp
    /dev/sda2 9.2G 3.8G 5.0G 43% /usr
    /dev/sda7 9.8G 2.4G 7.0G 25% /var
    /dev/md0 461G 182G 256G 42% /home
    /dev/md1 1.1T 547G 499G 53% /archive
     
    [alioth@ZenIV ~]$ grep md1 /etc/mtab
    /dev/md1 /archive ext3 rw,noatime 0 0
    See that there at the bottom? 1.1T. This is larger than 750GB. It is formatted ext3. The machine is running RedHat.
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