An In-Depth Look At Seagate's 1.5TB Barracuda

theraindog writes "More than a year and a half after the first terabyte hard drives became widely available, Seagate has reached the next storage capacity milestone. With 1.5 terabytes, the latest Barracuda 7200.11 serves up 50% more capacity than its peers, and at a surprisingly affordable $0.12 per gigabyte. But Seagate's decision to drop new platters into an old Barracuda shell may not have been a wise one. The Tech Report's in-depth review of the world's first 1.5TB hard drive shows that while the latest 'cuda is screaming fast in synthetic throughput drag races, poor real world write speeds ultimately tarnish its appeal."

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Re:Write speed

[mikael_j]

I'd like to thank whoever modded my post "troll" because clearly I'm trolling by pointing out that the parent poster completely omitted the possibility of connecting hard drives using SATA.

/Mikael