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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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Did you hear about Seagate's new Sarahcuda drive? Not only does it also have 1.5 terabytes of capacity, but it scrambles your data so as it make it completely incomprehensible. Plus you get a free one if you vote for John McCain
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How reliable is the thing?
Buy me one and I can promise status updates.
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More like a milestone-and-a-half.
I've managed to fill 2/3rds of my 1TB storage drive already.
Your wrist must be tired!
If you need a 1.5 TB swapfile, I suggest you start clicking some of those X's on your windows.
Lack of speed can be overcome. In the worst case by patience.
That is just true. So from now on, it should be written...
Lack of speed can be overcome. In the worst case by patience.
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