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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."

4 of 532 comments (clear)

  1. :D by jigjigga · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I see what you did there ;)

  2. But does it have Heart? by R3d+M3rcury · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Mmm...Barracuda!

  3. Re:Keep in mind by camh · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Your prefixes of "hard drive manufacturer" and "real" are unnecessary. If you want to be anal about it, its quite simple - the drive is 750GB, or 698.49GiB. If your OS is reportig GiB as GB then your OS has a bug.
    These days I never want to know sizes in GiB. It's much easier to convert in your head between K, M and G by moving a decimal point around.
    If people would start using the correct unit prefixes in their software and conversations, your problem would be solved. But right now, you are continuing to perpetuate the problem by calling GiB "real GB". The way to calculate these units has already been settled. You just don't seem to want to accept it (since you clearly know about GB and GiB, but call GiB "real GB").

  4. Re:EVERY NERD DANCE by Adult+film+producer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    why are the mods in such a rotten mood this morning ? Everything is modded off-topic... the parent deserves informative or interesting because of that link.