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Review of Seagate's 750Gb Hard Drive

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the raid-array-in-a-box dept.

Zoxed writes "The Tech Report have a comprehensive review of Seagate's Barracuda-7200.10 'perpendicular' drive, including a primer on the technology. They ran performance tests against 10 other drives, checking the noise and power consumption levels. The Seagate fared pretty well, even on cost (per Gigabyte)." From the article: "Perpendicular recording does wonders for storage capacity, and thanks to denser platters, it can also improve drive performance. Couple those benefits with support for 300 MB/s Serial ATA transfer rates, Native Command Queuing, and up to 16 MB of cache, and the Barracuda 7200.10 starts to look pretty appealing. Throw in an industry-leading five year warranty and a cost per gigabyte that's competitive with 500 GB drives, and you may quickly find yourself scrambling to justify a need for 750 GB of storage capacity."

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  1. GREAT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    This will provide ample space for my collection of GAY NIGGER PORN!

  2. Whiney Mac Fanboy is a hippie hobo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Whiney Mac Fanboy is a failed journalist and a hobo Microsoft-basher. For your sake, add him to your foes list immediately. Whiney fanboys, go back to digg.

  3. Re:Lame excuse. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I have 750Gb of data, and just enough money for 750Gb of disk space. Ah well, I guess I'll have to throw out half of my data, because it would be irresponsible to store anything without a proper backup.

  4. Re:The justification for more space by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Hey looks like I found Alex P Keaton's alter ego. FAG!!!

  5. Re:Big Big Drives are great...but backup is a prob by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Reliability is not backup, dipshit.